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 of the National Academy, New York, and assisted in his studies by Robertson, Trumbull, Morse, and Dunlap. Professional life passed in New York, with the exception of two winters, 1844-46, in Washington, D. C. Silver medal, National Academy, in 1827. Elected N.A. in 1833. Studio in New York. Works: Silas Wright, City Hall, New York; Henry Clay addressing the Senate (design for engraving published in 1846); Rachel and Bella (1879); Family Portrait (1881).

WHITTREDGE, WORTHINGTON, born in Springfield, O., May 22, 1820. Landscape painter, pupil of Andreas Achenbach in Düsseldorf. Visited Europe in 1850, spent four years in Rome, and travelled through England, France, Holland, Belgium, and Italy. Returned to New York in 1860, and elected N.A. in 1861. In 1864 sketched in the Rocky Mountains. President of the National Academy in 1874. Studio in New York. Works: Old Kentucky Home, Coast of Rhode Island (1867); Home by the Sea-*side (1872); Study of Rocky Mountain Aspens; Old Hunting-Ground; In the Bernese Alps, C. P. Huntington, New York; View of Rocky Mountains from the River Platte, Century Club, ib.; Trout Brook, H. G. Marquand, ib.; Window, R. L. Stuart, ib.; Forest Brook, Platte River (1878); Catskill Brook (1879); On the Plains (1880); Old House by the Sea, Nook on the River (1881); Twilight on the Hudson, Sunny Day in the Woods (1883); Old Road to the Sea, Pool in the Woods, On the Plains—Colorado (1884); Sunrise over the Sea, The Old Farm (1885); Brook in the Woods, Brook among the Hills (1886).

WICAR, JEAN BAPTISTE, born at Lille, Jan. 22, 1762, died in Rome, Feb. 27, 1834. History and portrait painter, pupil of David; went in 1784 to Florence to make drawings of the works in the gallery, for engraving. In 1793 he became a member of the Paris Conservatory, and in 1796 commissary for the art exploration of Italy. Settled about 1800 in Rome, where he won reputation as a portrait painter; in 1805 he became a member of the Academy of St. Luke, and from 1807-10 was director of the Academy at Naples. Left his splendid collection of drawings by the old masters to his native city, where they are preserved in the Musée Wicar. Works: Portraits of Duke and Duchess Torlonia, of Murat, of Pius VII., of himself, Joseph explaining the Dream (1784), Concordat between Pius and Napoleon (1806), Youth at Nain (1816), Solomon's Judgment, Virgil reading the Æneid before Augustus and Livy, Lille Museum; Resurrection, Themistocles at the House of Admetus, Marriage of Mary, Peter and Paul, Perugia Cathedral; Virgil reading the Æneid to Augustus (1818), Coriolanus; Orestes; Pylades and Electra.—Bellier, ii. 721; Dufay, Notice sur la vie de Wicar (Paris, 1844); Larousse.

WICHMANN, ADOLF, born at Celle, Hanover, March 18, 1820, died in Dresden, Feb. 17, 1866. History and genre painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Bendemann; then studied in Venice and also in Rome (1847-51) after the old masters. Gold medals: Dresden, 1845; Berlin, 1851. Works: Allegory on Music (1845); Come Ye that are Heavy Laden (1851); Granted Request (1853), New Pinakothek, Munich; Pietro Aretino reading at Titian's (1865), Dresden Gallery; Mary and Elizabeth watching the Sleeping Infant Christ, Liège Gallery; Wedding Repast at Freiburg; Painters' Festival at Titian's.—Kunst-Chronik, i. 23.

WICHMANN, OTTO GOTTFRIED, born in Berlin, March 25, 1828, died in Rome, March 17, 1858. Genre painter, pupil of