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 Quarry on the Hill, Leaving the Common (1883); Friends, Loading at a Quarry, An Old Crone (1884); Quarry Men of Purbeck (1885). Mrs. H. T. Wells (Johanna Mary Boyce 1831-61) was a genre painter of considerable skill.

WELTER, MICHAEL, born in Cologne in 1806. History painter; studied in Berlin and in Paris, and devoted himself to decorative and monumental painting. Works: Frescos in the Temple House, Cologne; Choir of St. Kunibert's, ib. (encaustic, 1856-59); religious pictures in the Chapel and life-size portraits of the old landgraves in the Rittersaal of the Wartburg, near Eisenach (1859-61); Life of St. Godehard (1861-63), Godehardi Church, Hildesheim.—Müller, 551.

WENCKER, JOSEPH, born at Strasbourg, Nov. 3, 1848. Genre painter, pupil of Gérôme and of the École des Beaux Arts. Won grand prix de Rome in 1876. Medal: 2d class, 1877. Works: Intimacy (1873); Under the Leaves (1874); Girls putting on Flowers (1875);	Stoning of St. Stephen (1876); Priam asking Achilles for Hector's Body (1876);	St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1879); Saul consulting the Pythoness (1880); St. John Chrysostom Preaching (1882); Woman Bathing (1883).—Larousse.

WÉNÉTZIANOFF, ALEXEI GAVRILOVICH, born at Nejine (Nezheen) in 1780, died in the government of Tver, Dec. 5, 1846. Genre and portrait painter, pupil and afterwards member of St. Petersburg Academy. Works: Young Russian Peasant, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Peasant Girl at Communion, Prianishnikof Collection, ib.; Interior of a Barn.

WENGLEIN, JOSEF, born in Munich, Oct. 5, 1845. Landscape painter, pupil of Munich Academy, of Steffan, and of Adolf Lier; paints well-conceived views in the high plains of Upper Bavaria, treating with especial predilection old giant trees on the steep banks of the Isar. Royal Professor in Munich. Numerous medals. Works: Mountain Ridge with Ruin (1875); Simsee in Upper Bavaria (1877); Spring Song, Lake Chiem, Autumn Landscape with Hunting Party, Winter Landscape on the Isar, Moor in Upper Bavaria (1880); Temple of Poseidon at Pæstum (1882); Limestone Gatherers in the Isar Bed (1883), New Pinakothek, Munich; Isar Valley near Baierbrunn (1883); do. near Tölz (1884), Cologne Museum; Autumn Landscape, In the Moss (1884).—Müller, 552; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 580; xx. 347; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xix. 159; xx. 72.

WERESCHAGIN. See Vereschagin.

WERFF, ADRIAAN VAN DER, born at Kralinger-Ambacht, near Rotterdam, Jan. 21, 1659, died in Rotterdam, Nov. 12, 1722. Dutch school; history, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Cornelis Picolett, portrait painter; then for four years of Eglon van der Neer. At seventeen years of age he painted his own portrait, and thenceforth worked independently. In the art cabinets of the wealthy amateur and collector Flinck, son of Govaert Flinck, and of the burgomaster Jan Six, in Amsterdam, 1692, he became acquainted with many masterpieces of Italian art which influenced his taste considerably. In 1696 the Elector Palatine John William visited his studio in Rotterdam and ordered his portrait and the Judgment of Solomon, made him court painter, and in 1703 he knighted him. Works: Lot and Daughters, Boy with Guinea-Pig and Girl with Kitten, Buckingham Palace, London; St. Margaret, Lord Ashburton, ib.; Magdalen, Incredulity of Thomas, Lot and Daughters, Mr. Hope,