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 the Fountain; Sixteenth Century; Pet's First Cake; John Alden and Priscilla; Tête-à-Tête, At her Ease (1879); Vieux Document (1884). Portraits: Von Humboldt; Everett; Sumner; Agassiz; Josiah Quincy.—Tuckerman, 504.

WILBERG, CHRISTIAN, born at Havelberg, Nov. 20, 1839, died in Paris, June 3, 1882. Architecture and landscape painter, pupil in Berlin of Eduard Pape and of Paul Gropius, then in Düsseldorf of Oswald Achenbach; made several study trips to Italy (1871-73, 1875-76), Austria, and Southern Germany; settled in Berlin and won reputation, especially by his interiors of Italian churches. Visited Pergamus in 1880. Medal, Vienna, 1873. Works: Interior of St. Mark's in Venice (several); Doge's Palace; Palazzo Borghese; Palazzo Colonna; Temple of Juno Lacinia at Girgenti; Cappella Palatina in Palermo; Grotto of Egeria; Roman Park; View in Greece, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Bay of Naples, Bay of Baiæ (1880); View of St. Peter's from Villa Pamfili (1881); Memento mori, Dresden Museum.—Jordan (1885), ii. 243; Kunst-Chronik, ix. 43; xvii. 543, 560; xviii. 1, 22; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 349.

WILDENS, JAN, born in Antwerp in 1586, died there, Oct. 16, 1653. Flemish school; landscape painter, pupil of Peter Verhulst; master of the guild in 1604. Intimate with, and perhaps pupil of, Rubens, for whom he painted backgrounds, as well as for Snyders and Diepenbeck. Subjects well chosen, facile brush, good colour, skies and distances light and airy. Rubens made him one of the executors of his will. Van Dyck painted his portrait. Works: View of Antwerp (1636), Amsterdam Museum; Winter Landscape (1624), Dresden Gallery; Waters of Spa, Hunt, Gypsy telling Fortunes, Country Scene, Madrid Museum; Wood Landscape, Bridgewater Gallery, London; Landscape (Holy Family by Rombouts), Antwerp Museum; do. (Eliezer and Rebekah by Jordaens), Brussels Museum; do. (Allegory by Van Balen), Carlsruhe Gallery.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Immerzeel, 235; Kramm, vi. 1862; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 298; Michiels, viii. 174; Rooses (Reber), 261; Van den Branden, 683.

WILES, LEMUEL M., born at Perry, Wyoming County, N. Y., in 1826. Landscape and figure painter, studied under William Hart, and with J. F. Cropsey in New York. After painting in Washington, Albany, and Utica, he settled in New York in 1863. Sketched in Panama, California, and Colorado in 1873-74. Studio at Ingham University, Le Boy, N. Y. (1884), where he conducts the department of painting. Works: Mt. San Jacinto; Vale of Elms, Ingham University; Reminiscences of Travel—28 small pictures, A. R. Frothingham, Brooklyn; Long Pond—Seneca Lake, J. C. Lord, New York; Moonrise, Cardinal McCloskey; Sunshine and Shadow (1879); Panama, Across the Moor (1880); Meadow Lands (1881); Snow-Bound (1882); Camp of the San Diego Indians (1883); St. Catherine's Window—Dryburgh, Albany (1884); Midwinter (1885); Summer-Day Sketch (1886). His son, Irving R. Wiles, is a genre and portrait painter in New York.

WILHELM OF HERLE. See Meister Wilhelm.

WILKIE, BURIAL OF, Joseph M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London; canvas, 2 ft. 8 in. square. Entitled Peace: Burial at Sea of the Body of Sir David Wilkie, who died on board the steamer Oriental, off Gibraltar, on his return from the East, June 1, 1841. Royal Academy, 1842; Turner Collection. Engraved by J. Cousen; etched by Brunet-Debaines in Portfolio, 1874.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Hamerton, Life.

WILKIE, Sir DAVID, born at Cults, Fifeshire, Nov. 18, 1785, died in Bay of Gibraltar, June 1, 1841. Studied in Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, from 1799 to 1804, and on his return to Cults painted, besides portraits, Pitlessie Fair (1804), and the Vil