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 Interior of Gothic Church, Gotha Museum; Landscape with Ruins of Aqueduct, Museum, Vienna; Rocky Wood Landscape with Fishermen, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Antique Buildings, Turin Gallery.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers, 143; Rooses (Reber), 412; Van den Branden, 1062.

WITTE, PEETER DE, called Candido, born in Bruges about 1548, died in Munich in 1628. Flemish school; history painter; went early to Italy, and in Florence made the acquaintance of Vasari, who took him to Rome and employed him as his assistant there and later in Florence. In 1578 he entered the service of Duke Albert V., and after that prince's death that of William V. of Bavaria. As court painter to the next duke, Maximilian I., he made most of the designs for the decoration of his newly built palace, and painted several ceilings in it. He exerted considerable influence upon art in Munich. Works: Holy Family adored by Angels, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Madonna with Saints, Oldenburg Gallery; Hunt, Falcon Chase, Fishing, Daughter of Jephtha, two portraits, Schleissheim Gallery; King David playing the Harp, Baron Minutoli's Collection, Schloss Fridersdorf, Silesia; Death of St. Ursula, Holy Family, do. with St. Stephen, Vienna Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 244; Kramm, vi. 1878; Kugler (Crowe), i. 242; Rée, Peter Candid und seine Werke (Leipsic, 1885).

WITTKAMP, JOHAN BERNARD, born at Riesenbeck, Westphalia, Sept. 29, 1820. History painter, pupil in Rotterdam of Willem Hendrik Schmidt, then of Antwerp Academy under De Keyser; visited France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany in 1853. Medals at Brussels (1845), The Hague, Bruges, London. Honorary Member of Amsterdam and Philadelphia Academies. Works: The Dutch passing the Winter on Nova Zembla in 1596 (1845); The Jailer (1850), Ghent Museum; Arrival of Hugo Grotius at Rostock (1851); Return of the Dutch from Nova Zembla (1854); King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; John Parricida's Flight over the Alps; The Women of Crèvecœur (1857); Cruelty of Duke Adolphus of Gueldres to his Father (1860); Parisina (after Byron, 1876).—D. Kunstbl., 1852, 1853; Müller, 563.

WTTTMER, JOHANN MICHAEL, born at Murnau, Bavaria, Oct. 15, 1802, died in Rome, May 9, 1880. History painter, pupil of the Munich Academy under Langer; went in 1828 to Rome, whence he visited Naples in 1831, and accompanied the Crown Prince Max in 1833 on a tour to Naples, Sicily, Malta, Corfù, Greece, Constantinople, and Smyrna. He lived afterwards altogether in Rome, but visited Germany in 1844 and 1858. Works: Christ Crucified (1826); Two Altarpieces (1827); Rebekah at the Well, Burial of St. Catherine (1828); Hagar (1829); Healing of the Blind (1830); Sweet Waters in Asia (1835); Æsop telling his Fables; Antiochus and Stratonice, Homer, Flight into Egypt, Six Oriental Views, Coffee-House in Smyrna, Birth of St. John (1843); Procession of Pius IX. to the Lateran (1846); Blessing the Children (1848); Madonna (1849); Coronation of Virgin (1858); St. Ann with Virgin, St. Joseph, St. Ignatius (1861); Maria Immaculata (1866); Burial of St. Catherine (1851), Birth of St. John (1862), Adoration of the Shepherds, New Pinakothek, Munich.—Andresen, ii. 288; Kunst-Chronik, xv. 627; xxi. 218; Cotta's Kunstbl., 1829-43.

WLEUGHELS, NICOLAS, born in Paris, baptized Dec. 11, 1668, died in Rome, Dec. 5, 1737. Flemish and French schools; history and genre painter, son and pupil of Philippe Wleughels (born at Antwerp about 1622, died in Paris, buried March 23, 1694, pupil of Cornelis Schut); then studied under Pierre Mignard, went to Italy in 1694, and after a sojourn of two years in Rome and Venice returned to Paris, where he was received into the Academy in 1716. Appointed director of the French Academy in Rome in 1724, and while there made chevalier of the Order of Saint Michel. He was very intimate with Watteau, and his works