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 *Piece (1881); Dutch Peasant (1883), Muse of Music, Metropolitan Museum, New York; Breton Interior, The Mother, Flowers (1884). Water-colours: An Interior; Sunday Morning, Portrait of Sleeping Dog (1884). Portraits: Robert Weir (1880); Warren Delano (1881); Richard Grant White (1883); Peter Cooper (1884); A Revery (1886).

WEIR, ROBERT WALTER, born in New Rochelle, June 18, 1803. History painter, pupil of Jarvis; began to paint portraits in 1821, and in 1824 went to Florence, where he studied with Benvenuti; afterwards studied nature and old masters in Rome (1825). Elected N.A. in 1829, and professor of drawing at the West Point Military Academy in 1837, which position he held for forty-two years. Studio in New York. Works: Belle of the Carnival (1836); Landing of Hendrik Hudson (1842); Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1845), Capitol at Washington; Evening of the Crucifixion (1867); Virgil and Dante crossing the Styx (1869); Titian in his Studio, Christ in the Garden (1873); Our Lord on the Mount of Olives (1877); Columbus before the Council of Salamanca (1884).

WEIROTTER, FRANZ EDMUND, born at Innsbruck, May 11, 1730, died in Vienna in 1771. German school; landscape painter, studied at Innsbruck, Vienna, and Mentz, then in Paris under the engraver Johann Georg Wille; visited Italy, and became professor at the Vienna Academy in 1767. Landscapes by him are in the Bamberg Gallery (2), the Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck (2), and the Stuttgart Museum.—Wurzbach.

WEISER, JOSEF (EMANUEL), born at Patschkau, Silesia, May 10, 1847. Genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Wilhelm Diez; visited Germany, Austria, and Italy; paints with striking humour and keen satire. Works: Visit to Nunnery; Theatre in Eighteenth Century; Acquitted; Harvest Festival in Silesia; Defence of Monastery; Full Glasses—Warm Heads! Last Refuge, Dresden Gallery; Church Militant (1879); Storming of Maidens' Castle (1882); After the Surprise (1883); Plundering Scene in Thirty Years' War (1884); Outpost, Hay for the Monastery (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Allgem. K. C., viii. 378; Illustr. Zeitg. (1877), ii. 9; (1884), ii. 37; (1885), i. 412; Kunst-Chronik, xv. 432; xvii. 632; xix. 630; xx. 744.

WEISHAUPT, VIKTOR, born in Munich, March 6, 1848. Animal painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Wilhelm Diez, after having served in the war of 1870-71. Gold medal, London. Works: Cattle Herd by a Windmill (1876); Wild Bull (1879); Watering Place for Cattle, Herd returning Home (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1880), ii. 72; Kunst-Cronik, xxii. 39; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xv. 224.

WEISS, FERDINAND, born at Magdeburg, Aug. 10, 1814, died in Berlin, Jan. 23, 1878. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin and Düsseldorf Academies under Schadow. Made himself especially known through his excellent illustrations for his brother Hermann's splendid history of costume. In the National Gallery at Berlin is by him: The Return of the Knight (1837).—Jordan (1885), ii. 239.

WEISS, JOSEF ANDREAS, born at Freising, Bavaria, in 1814. Architecture painter, first instructed by his father, an amateur, then pupil of Domenico Quaglio in Munich. Lived for some time at St. Petersburg as court painter to the Duke of Leuchtenberg, travelled in Russia, then settled in Munich. Works: Views in Munich (4, 1873, 1877, 1879, 1884, two with military groups), New Pinakothek, Munich; St. Isaac's in St. Petersburg; The Kremlin in Moscow.—Müller, 551.

WEISSENBRUCH, JAN, born at The Hague, March 18, 1822, died there, Feb. 15,