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 Landscape with do., Darmstadt Museum; Two Landscapes, Stuttgart Museum.—Füessli, Gesch. der besten Mal. in der Schweiz, iv. 180.

WUTKY, MICHAEL, born at Krems, Nether Austria, in 1739, died in Vienna in 1822. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Meytens in 1759, when he successfully followed historical painting, and won four prizes; later went to Italy and, studying especially after Poussin and Claude Lorrain, soon established his reputation as an excellent landscape painter; spent six years (1781-87), chiefly in Rome, returned to Vienna, and visited Italy again in 1805. Member (1770) of, and professor in, Vienna Academy. Works: Eruption of Vesuvius, Lake Avernus near Naples, Harrach Gallery, Vienna; Landscapes with Cattle, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; others in Johanneum, Gratz.—Nagler, xxii. 137.

WYANT, ALEXANDER H., born in Port Washington, O., Jan. 11, 1836. Landscape painter; went abroad about 1866, became a pupil of Hans Gude in Carlsruhe, and student of the works of Turner and Constable in London. Exhibited first at the National Academy, New York, in 1865. Elected an A.N.A. in 1868 and N.A. in 1869. Studio in New York. Works in oil: A Storm (1861); Staten Island from Jersey Meadows (1867); Scene on Upper Susquehanna (1869); Pool on the Au Sable (1871); View on Lake George (1875); Old Field, Morning—Essex County, N. Y., T. B. Clarke, New York; New England Landscape (1878); Old Clearing (1881), Robert Gordon; In the Township of Greenwich, Scene in the Adirondacks (1882); Anywhither (1883); Old Stubble-Field, Forenoon—Adirondacks (1884); Evening, Summer (1885); Sunset, Near Killarney (1886). Water-colours: Scene on Upper Little Miami (1867); New Jersey Meadows (1870); Sunset on the Prairie (1876); Reminiscence of the Connecticut (1878).

WYCK, THOMAS, born at Beverwyck in 1616, died in Haarlem, buried Aug. 19, 1677. Dutch school; landscape, marine, and genre painter; registered in the Haarlem guild in 1642, was its dean in 1660; studied chiefly in Italy, especially in the environs of Naples, where he made many sketches which he afterwards used for his coast views. Italian markets, charlatans, alchemists, etc., with palatial buildings in the background, were among his favourite subjects. He followed in one respect the style of Pieter de Laar; but, although his pictures are good in composition, drawing, and execution, they are cold and heavy in colour. Works: Roman Ruin, Haarlem Museum; Alchemist, Rustic Interior, Amsterdam Museum; Woman and Children at Home, Rotterdam Museum; Italian Seaport, Aschaffenburg Gallery; do., Bamberg Gallery; Alchemist (3), Cassel Gallery; do., and Start for the Chase, Brunswick Gallery; Lane in Italian Town, Moltke Collection, Copenhagen; Italian Mountain Scenery, Christiania Gallery; Italian Coast Views (3), Hamburg Gallery; Scholar in his Study, Darmstadt Museum; Alchemist (2), Italian Landscape, Dresden Gallery; Ruins on Seashore, Old Building with Well, Museum, Vienna; Seaport, Academy, ib.; others in Galleries and Museums at Augsburg, Copenhagen (2), Frankfort (2), Innsbruck, Königsberg, Leipsic, Munich, Schwerin (3), Stuttgart; Hermitage, St. Petersburg (3); Liechtenstein (3, one dated 1647), Czernin (2), and Schönborn (2) Galleries, Vienna; Uffizi, Florence.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Immerzeel, iii. 252; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 454; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 373; Van der Willigen, 342.

WYLD, WILLIAM, born in London; contemporary. Landscape and architecture painter; studied mostly in travelling in Italy, Spain, and Algiers, and settled in Paris. His water-colours are especially creditable. Medals: 3d class, Paris, 1839; 2d class, 1841; Legion of Honour, 1855. Works: