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 *hagen and Dresden Academies—at the latter under Dahl; afterwards travelled in Germany, Denmark, France, Switzerland, and North Italy. Saxon court painter in 1860. Works: Fallow Deer (1847), National Gallery, Berlin; Prairie Fire in America (1846), Stags crossing Water (1855), Dresden Gallery; Principal Christian Feasts at Seasons.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 991.

WEGMANN, BERTHA, born at Soglio, Switzerland, Dec. 16, 1847. Genre and portrait painter, pupil in Copenhagen of Frederik Helsted and Frederik Christian Lund; went in 1867 to Munich, and there studied under Lindenschmit and Kurzbauer, having meanwhile spent a year in Florence; then visited Paris. Mention honourable, 1880; 3d class medal, 1882; Thorvaldsen medal, Copenhagen. Works: Sick Child (1873); Widow with her Child (1877); Portrait of her Sister (1882); Artist's Studio, Young Mother with her Child in a Garden (1883); Portrait of herself (1885).—Sig. Müller, 369.

WEGUELIN, J. R., born in England; contemporary. Genre painter, exhibits at Royal Academy and at Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Tired Dancer (1879); The Vintage (1880); The Fishers, Roman Acrobat (1881); Evoë Bacche, Habet! Feast of Flora (1882); Maidens' Race, Libation to the Nymph, A Secret (1883); Herodias and her Daughter, The Bath (1884); Swing Feast, An Egyptian Difficulty in Time of Augustus (1885); Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat, Summer Afternoon, The Fair Girl (1886).

WEIER, JACOB, born in Hamburg (?), died there, May 8, 1670. German school; history and genre painter, mentioned as master of the Maleramt at Hamburg in 1648. His works are extremely rare. Works: Crucifixion, Falcon Chase, Schwerin Gallery; Crucifixion, Provinzial Museum, Münster; Capture of a Standard, Kyburg Gallery, Switzerland.—Schlie, 687.

WEIGAND, KONRAD, born at Nuremberg, Dec. 12, 1842. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy. Medal, Munich. Works: Religious Conversation between Ulrich von Hutten, Franz von Sickingen, and Martin Bucer; Luther's Entry into Worms (1879); Robber Knight brought captive into Nuremberg in 1472 (1885). In fresco: Marriage of Albrecht Dürer and Agnes Frey.—Müller, 550; D. Rundschau, xx. 460; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xxii. 14.

WEIR, JOHN FERGUSON, born at West Point, N.Y., Aug. 28, 1841. Subject and portrait painter, son and pupil of Robert Walter Weir. Visited Europe in 1868; in 1869 became director of the Yale School of Fine Arts. Elected N.A. in 1866. Studio in New Haven. Works: Culprit Fay; Christmas Bell, D. O. Mills, New York; Gun Foundry (1867); Forging the Shaft (1868); West Point, R. L. Stuart, New York; The Confessional (1876); Venice; Tapping the Furnace; An Artist's Studio; Morning (1881); Theological Faculty of Yale College (1882); Portrait of S. Wells Williams, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Yale College (1883); A Shimmering Landscape, Pompilia (1886).—Sheldon, 175.

WEIR, JULIAN ALDEN, born at West Point, N. Y., Aug. 30, 1852. Portrait painter, son and pupil of Robert Walter Weir, and pupil of Gérôme in Paris in 1872-76. Sketched and painted in Spain and Holland. One of the founders of the Society of American Artists; exhibits at Paris Salon and National Academy, New York. Honourable mention, Paris Salon. Studio in New York. Elected A.N.A. in 1885, N.A. in 1886. Ideal works: Scene in the Park (1878); Good Samaritan (1879); Flower