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 *pointed its librarian. Works: Villa of Mæcenas at Tivoli, Destruction of Niobe's Children, Lake Avernus, On the River Wye, and other landscapes, National Gallery, London; Apollo and the Seasons, River Dee, Grosvenor House; View of Tivoli, Dulwich Gallery; Landscape, Earl of Wemyss; Italian Landscape, R. C. L. Bevan; Landscape with Mill, Rev. W. H. Wayne; Italian Landscape, River Scene with Figures, National Gallery, Einburgh.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Redgrave; Wright, Life (London, 1824); Cunningham; F. de Conches, 179; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Sandby, i. 106; Portfolio (1872), 82.

WILT, THOMAS VAN DER, born at Piershil, Holland, Oct. 29, 1659, died at Delft in 1733. Dutch school. Genre painter, pupil of Jan Verkolje at Delft, where he was repeatedly one of the trustees of the guild in 1690-1714. His works show also the influence of Ter Borch and Ochtervelt. In the Berlin Museum is one of his principal works: Lady and two Gentlemen at Game of Draughts.—Kramm, vi. 1870; Meyer, Gem. köngl. Mus., 536.

WINDSOR BEAUTIES, Sir Peter Lely, Hampton Court Palace, England; canvas, H. 4 ft. 1 in. × 3 ft. 4 in. each. Portraits of beauties of the Court of Charles II., so called because they were formerly hung in the queen's bedchamber at Windsor Castle. All of them are three-quarters lengths, in landscapes, and all of one type—bare-headed, with hair arranged in coquettish curls on the forehead, short sleeves, and with draperies disposed in graceful negligence, freely exposing the busts. Lely painted eleven originally: 1. Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, as Minerva; daughter and heiress of Viscount Grandison and wife of Roger Palmer, afterwards Earl of Castlemaine. 2. Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond; daughter of Captain Walter Stewart and wife of Duke of Richmond. 3. Mrs. Jane Middleton, daughter of Sir Roger Needham. 4. Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Northumberland; daughter of the Earl of Southampton and wife of Joscelin, Lord Percy; married second, Ralph, Lord Montague, but retained her first title. 5. Anne Digby, Countess of Sunderland; daughter of the Earl of Bristol and wife of Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland. 6. Elizabeth Bagot, Countess of Falmouth; daughter of Colonel Hervey Bagot, wife of Lord Falmouth and afterwards of Lord Dorset. 7. Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Denham; daughter of Sir William Brooke and wife of Sir John Denham, the poet. 8. Frances Brooke, afterwards Lady Whitmore; sister of Elizabeth Brooke and wife of Sir Thomas Whitmore. 9. Henrietta Boyle, Countess of Rochester; daughter of Richard, Earl of Cork and Burlington, and wife of Lawrence Hyde, afterwards Earl of Rochester. 10. Eliza Hamilton, Countess de Gramont, as St. Catherine; sister of Count Anthony Hamilton and wife of the Chevalier de Gramont. 11. Madame d'Orleans. This picture is lost.—Law, Hist. Cat. Hampton Court, 56; Mrs. Jameson, Beauties of Court of Charles II.; Hamilton, Mémoires du comte de Gramont; Pepys's Diary.

WINGE, MARTEN ESKIL, born in Stockholm, Sept. 21, 1825. History painter, pupil of Stockholm Academy, where he took the first prize in 1857; then studied in Düsseldorf, and under Couture in Paris; went to Rome, and returned in 1863 via Munich to Sweden; became member of Stockholm Academy and court painter in 1864, and professor in 1867. Works: Kraka (1862), Hjalmar and Orvar Odd (1865), Loke and Sigyn, Thor's Fight with the Giants (1868), Stockholm Museum; Ingeborg, Gothenburg Museum; Olof Tryggvesson and Sigrid Storråda at Konghäll; Christ on Mount of Olives; Resurrection; Descent from the Cross. His wife Hanna, née Sengelin (born Dec. 4, 1838), is a good genre painter, pupil of Boklund and of Stockholm Academy.—Müller, 561.