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 *roe, Denmark, in May, 1683. Dutch school; history and portrait painter; called to Denmark in 1638 by Christian IV., and went there, probably in company with his brother-in-law, Karel van Mander, the younger; was court painter for twenty-five years, then retired to Soroe. Works: Prince Waldemar Christian of Denmark, Male Portrait, Copenhagen Gallery; Female Portrait, Christiania Gallery; Portrait of a Jeweller (1644), Darmstadt Museum (?); Continence of Scipio, Königsberg Museum (?); Christian IV. of Denmark, Vienna Museum.—Kramm, vi. 1883; Nagler, xxii. 122; Weilbach, 760.

WUEST, ALEXANDER, born in America; contemporary. Landscape painter in Brussels; paints mountain views from Scandinavia and North America, with good colouring. Medals: Brussels and The Hague, 1866; Vienna, 1873. Works: Mountain Torrent in Norway, New York Museum; The Catskills, New Haven Gallery; Norwegian Waterfall; Huntsmen on Sogne Fjord; Life in Canadian Woods.

WULFFAERT, ADRIANUS, born at Ter Goes, Zealand, in September, 1804. History and genre painter, pupil of Ducq and of Bruges Academy, then studied in Paris (1829-32), and after his return won the first prize at Ghent. Works: Corps-de-Garde of Bruges (1831), Child leaving the Bath, Bruges Academy; Venus at Grave of Adonis (1832); Foster Brothers (1838), Ghent Museum; Kirmess, Brussels Museum; Death of Admiral Ruyter; Waking and Sleeping; Christ at Gethsemane; Maria Consolatrix. His wife Clara, née Rooman, is a good genre painter; medal, Ghent, 1835, for Maternal Lesson.—Immerzeel, iii. 251.

WÜNNENBERG, KARL, born in Düsseldorf, Nov. 10, 1850. Genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Deger and Eduard von Gebhardt; went in 1876 to Rome, and became professor at the Cassel Academy in 1882. Works: Praying Woman in Choir of Church; In the Confessional; In the Park; Lady with Kittens (1878); Centaur; Old Italian Idyl.—Müller, 567.

WURMSER, NICOLAUS, of Strassburg, 14th century. German school; history painter, who came to Bohemia in 1348, entered the service of Charles IV. in 1359, and in the year following was appointed court painter. His figures are hard in tone, and weak in the extremities, but despite these defects his pictures are notable for independent thought, ideality, and powerful colour. Works: Scenes from the Apocalypse, Chapel of Burg Karlstein, near Prague; Christ on the Cross, Vienna Museum.—Kugler (Crowe), i. 38; do., Kl. Schriften, ii. 498; Schnaase, vi. 439; W. & W., i. 394; Gaz. des B. Arts (1873), vii. 148; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. 366.

WURZINGER, KARL, born in Vienna in 1817, died at Döbling, near Vienna, March 16, 1883. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy; won the grand prize in 1845, and went to Rome in 1847, where he remained ten years; afterwards became professor at Vienna Academy. Medals: Berlin, 1866; Paris, 3d class, 1867. Orders of Francis Joseph and of St. Michael. Works: Joseph explaining the Dream; Death of King Ottokar (1847); Emperor Ferdinand II. refusing his Signature to the Protestant Delegation (1856), Vienna Museum; Saul and David; Count Starhemberg wounded at Siege of Vienna.—Müller, 567; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 431.

WÜST, (JOHANN) HEINRICH, born at Zürich, May 14, 1741, died there in 1821. Landscape painter; for six years apprenticed to a house painter, then went to Holland, destitute of means, and at Amsterdam was befriended by the portrait painter Jacob Maurer, of Schaffhausen, and the art patron Ploos van Amstel, who procured for him commissions there and in Rotterdam. After five years in Holland he spent two in Paris, and returned home in 1769, when his landscapes found immediately great favour. Works: Forest Idyl, Berne Museum; Evening Landscape, two others, Zürich Gallery; Moonlight, Huts and Oaks by a Brook, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Waterfall (1797),