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 Jerome (1707), Dresden Museum; Lot and his Daughters (1721), Schwerin Gallery; Venus rising from her Couch, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Children playing with Bird, Uffizi, Florence.—Immerzeel, iii. 229; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 539.

WERNER, ANTON ALEXANDER VON, born in Frankfort-on-the-Oder, May 9, 1843. History and genre painter and illustrator, pupil of Berlin Academy in 1859-62, then in Carlsruhe of Lessing and Ad. Schrödter; visited Paris in 1867 and Italy in 1868-69; settled in Berlin, where he became director of the Academy in 1875. Has furnished masterly illustrations to the works of Josef Victor von Scheffel, to Herder's "Cid," and to Schiller's dramas. Member of Venice and Caraccas (Venezuela) Academies; court painter; Officer of Order of Italian Crown; several other orders and many medals. Works: Intimate Conversation, Quartette, Convent Life, The Suitor, Don Quixote with the Shepherds (1864-70); Luther before Cajetan (1865), Conradin in Prison (1866), Archbishop Hanno of Cologne kidnapping Henry IV. (1867), Struggle and Victory (1871), Symbolic Picture of Battle of Sedan, Allegory of German Union, Moltke before Paris, Moltke in his Study, Proclamation at Versailles (1876), Royal Palace, Berlin; Count von Moltke (1872), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Luther at the Diet of Worms, Stuttgart Museum; Baptism in Artist's House, Berlin Congress (1878), Emperor's Entry into Saarbrücken (1880); Moltke at Sedan (1883). In fresco: Luther at Worms, Summons of Volunteers in 1813, Gymnasium, Kiel; Proclamation at Versailles, Coronation of First King of Prussia (1884), Arsenal, Berlin.—Allgem. K. C., ix. 292; Graph. K., i. 65, 68; iv. 23; Kunst-Chronik, ix. 345; xii. 430; xvi. 481; xix. 730; Kunst f. Alle, i. 193; Land und Meer (1875), i. 46; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 64; Nord u. Süd, xviii. 185; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 234; D. Rundschau, viii. 432; ix. 474; xiii. 329; xxi. 146; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iii. 182; iv. 16; vi. 174; xvi. 142; xx. 36; xxi. 36; xxii. 42; Art Journal (1887), 5.

WERNER, FRITZ, born in Berlin, Dec. 3, 1828. Genre painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Daege, then of Menzel; studied in 1855-63 in Paris, and again in 1867 under Meissonier, whose elegant treatment of stuffs and accessories he adopted, while in conception and colouring he successfully imitated the style of Menzel, whose most talented pupil he is. Member of, and Professor at, Berlin Academy. Medal, Berlin, 1878. Works: Surprised Chambermaid (1863); Huntsman arranging his Traps, Old Gentleman served with Coffee (1864); Ornithologist, Prussian Grenadier on Guard, Admonition, Picture Amateur (1866); Fishmonger in Antwerp (1867); Amateur of Engravings (1868); Souvenir of Paris, Market Scene in Antibes, View of Nice, Old Gentleman feeding Birds, Street in Antibes, Picture Dealer, After Dinner, Fortifications in Antibes, Huntsman in Tavern, At the Zoölogical Museum, Gentleman Reading, Soldier Smoking, Would-be Politicians, Gentleman at Table, Interior of Hunting Castle, Smoker by Tile Stove (all of 1868-69); Boy with Hare (1870); Man with Dog and Hare, Trumpeter of Hussars, Painter in Studio, Picture-Dealing, Man at Draughts, Standard-Bearer, Peasant Hunting, Drummer, Child blowing Soap-Bubbles (all of 1870-73); Smoker and Child, Cavalier jesting with Girl (1873); Frederick the Great in his Library; A Conversation; From the Dresden Gallery (1880); Ridiculous Story (1881); Sutler Women between Regiments of Dessau and Baireuth (Jubilee Exhib., Berlin, 1886).—Anderson, v. 89; Illustr. Zeitg. (1882), i. 10; Leixner, Mod. K., ii.