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 Robert Fleury in Paris, whence he went to Italy to study the later Venetian masters. Works: Paolo Veronese in Venice (1856), Catherine de' Medici at the Alchemist's, National Gallery, Berlin.—Jordan (1885), ii. 242.

WICKENBERG, PETER, born at Stockholm in 1808, died at Pau in 1846. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Stockholm Academy; then went to Paris, where his genre scenes met with much favour. Afterwards he painted views in Holland, and winter landscapes of realistic conception, but with careful execution of details, clear and powerful colouring, and beautiful light effects. Legion of Honour, 1842. Works: Mother sewing by her Child's Bed (1839), Fishing in Winter (1839), Fisher Family in Cottage (1840), Leipsic Museum; Winter Landscape, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam.

WIDOWER, Luke Fildes, Sydney Museum, New South Wales; canvas. Royal Academy, 1876; bought by Thomas Taylor, of Wigan; Taylor sale (1883), £2,205. Etched by L. Flameng.

WIEDER, WILHELM, born at Stepnitz, Pomerania, Feb. 16, 1818, died in Berlin, Oct. 15, 1884. Genre painter, pupil in Berlin of J. S. Otto; lived for some time in England, three years in Russia, four in Paris, one in Antwerp, and twenty-four in Italy; returned to Germany in 1873, and settled in Berlin. Works: Mass at Aracœli Church in Rome (1856), National Gallery, Berlin; Confession on Holy Thursday in St. Peter's, Rome.—Kunst-Chronik, xx. 57.

WIEGMANN, MARIE (née Hancke), born at Silberberg, Silesia, Nov. 7, 1826. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Hermann Stilke and Karl Sohn; married the architect and painter Rudolf Wiegmann, and visited afterwards Germany, Holland, England, and Venice. Gold medal, Berlin. Works: The Elves (1847); Damajanti (1850); The Two Grandmothers (1852); Reunion; Undine (1860); Portrait of Karl Schnaase, National Gallery, Berlin; do. of Karl Sohn, Heinrich von Sybel, Countess Hatzfeld.—Müller, 556.

WIEGMANN, RUDOLF, born at Adensen, Hanover, April 17, 1804, died in Düsseldorf, April 17, 1865. Architecture painter, studied in Italy, especially in Rome, in 1828-34; removed in 1835 to Düsseldorf, where he became professor of architecture at the Academy in 1839. Wrote a work on the Düsseldorf Academy. Works: St. Angelo Castle in Rome (1833), Via Sacra (1834), Outlook from Vatican (1836), Cloister in Bonn Cathedral (1842), Interior of St. Mark's in Venice (1845).—Andresen, ii. 157; Dioskuren, 1865; Wiegmann, 90.

WIERINGEN, CORNELIS CLAESZ VAN, born in Haarlem between 1570 and 1580, died in 1635. Dutch school; marine painter. Destined for the navy, he made several sea voyages before devoting himself to art, in which he showed a great talent for representing the sea in its various aspects. Works: Arrival at Vliessingen of Elector Palatine Frederic V. in 1613, Taking of Damietta, Haarlem Museum; Naval Battle, Madrid Museum.—Van der Willigen, 330.

WIERTZ, ANTOINE JOSEPH, born at Dinant, Feb. 22, 1806, died in Brussels, June 18, 1865. History and portrait painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under Herreyns and van Brée; then studied in the Louvre, won the grand prize at the Antwerp Academy in 1832, and went via Paris to Rome, where he took Michelangelo for his model, as afterwards Rubens became his ideal, and in 1837 was made member of the Accademia di S. Luca. After his return he lived at Liège, and in 1848 established himself at Brussels, where in 1850 the government built for him, after his own design, a large studio, now known as the Musée Wiertz, and containing his collected great works, from which he never allowed