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 100; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 279; D. Rundschau, ix. 475; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 174; xvi. 147, 272; xxii. 42.

WERNER, JOSEF, born at Berne in 1637, died there in 1710. German school; history and portrait painter, pupil of his father and in Frankfort of Matthias Merian; then studied in Rome under Pietro da Cortona and Andrea Sacchi; devoted him-*self for a time to miniature painting in imitation of Carlo Maratti, was called to France by Louis XIV., for whom he painted many portraits and allegories, as he did also for the Elector of Bavaria, having gone to Augsburg in 1667; moved to Berne in 1682, and was director of the Berlin Academy in 1696-1707. Works: Union of Justice and Wisdom, City Hall, Berne; Experience, Republic of Berne, Justice, Golden Age, Cavalry Skirmish in 17th Century (attributed), Museum, ib.; Temptation of St. Anthony, Augsburg Gallery; Allegory on Avarice, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Tobias burying his Countrymen, Vienna Museum.—Descamps (Marseilles ed., 1842), ii. 230.

WERNER, KARL, born in Weimar, Oct. 4, 1808. Genre and architecture painter, pupil of Leipsic Academy under Veit Hans Schnorr; went in 1829 to Munich and in 1833 to Italy, where he remained twenty years; visited England in 1851, Spain in 1856, the East in 1862-64, and Greece in 1875, making many sketches. Ranks among the first painters in water-*colours. Professor at the Leipsic Academy since 1881. Member of Venice Academy, of Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, Saxon Order of Albrecht. Weimar gold medal for Art and Science. Works: Market Square of Piperno; Venice in Prosperity; do. in Decline; Return of Andrea Contarini; Scene from Shylock; Study from Pompeii; Lion Court of Alhambra; View of Beirout; Isle of Philæ; Mosque at Damascus; Bazaar in Cairo; Arabian Palace, ib.; Jewellery Shop, ib.; Column of Memnon; The Jordan near Jericho; Temple of Isis at Thebes; Antiquary by Temple at Karnak; Castle Lahneck; Interior of Church at Frankfort; Gate of Justice at Cairo; Church Interior (1833), Interior of Cefalù Cathedral (1838), Palace Interior at Palermo (1852), National Gallery, Berlin; Palace of Diocletian, Leipsic Museum; Abandoned Church in Pontine Swamps, Schack Gallery, Munich.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1874), ii. 31; Jordan (1885), ii. 240; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iii. 104.

WERTHEIMER, GUSTAV, born in Vienna; contemporary. History and genre painter. Works: Shipwreck of Agrippina; Venus Anadyomene; Peeping; Fisherman's Dream (1880); Coast Watchman; The Wave's Kiss; Flowers' Revenge; Fisherman's Dream, The King's Breakfast (1884).—Allgem. K. C., viii. 619; Illustr. Zeitg. (1883), i. 375; ii. 160; (1884), i. 554; (1885), ii. 229.

WERTMÜLLER, ADOLF ULRICH, born in Stockholm in 1751, died at Wilmington, Del., in 1811. History and genre painter, supposed pupil of Pilo (1713-94); went early to France, where he became member of the Academy in 1782. Swedish court painter in 1787; returned to Sweden about 1789; came to America in 1794 and painted several portraits of Washington; went home in 1797, but came back, married, and became a citizen. Works: Ariadne Forsaken, Marie Antoinette and her Children (1785), Stockholm Museum; Portraits of Gustavus III. and his Queen, of Gustavus IV., of Bachelier and Caffieri.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1874), x. 223; Revue univ. des Arts, iv.

WEST, BENJAMIN, born at Springfield, Penn., Oct. 10, 1738, died in London, March 11, 1820. Began to draw when seven years old, and took his first lessons in preparing colours from Cherokee Indians. After a little instruction from a painter named Williams, he set up, when eighteen years old, in