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 Bagnères de Bigorre; View of Bayonne; Elcantara in Algiers; Milan Cathedral; Piazetta in Venice; Corso Vittorio Emanuele in Milan; Strada Nuova in Genoa; Street in Prague; Forest Border near Tours, Ghent Museum; Mont Saint-Michel (1869), Luxembourg Museum; Ideal Landscape, Berne Museum; Armenian Convent in Venice (1883); Sunset near Tarent (1884); Isle of St. George—Venice (1885); Palm-*Trees of Bordighera, Bab-a-Zoun Street in Algiers (1886).

WYLIE, ROBERT, born in the Isle of Man in 1839, died in Brittany in 1877. Genre painter, brought to America when a child; pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, by the directors of which he was sent in 1863 to France to study. Medal: 2d class, Paris Salon, 1872. Works: Reading the Letter from the Bridegroom (1869); Breton Fortune-Teller (1872); Breton Neighbours reading Hugo's "'93," D. H. McAlpine, New York; Five Brittany Children, J. H. Stebbins, ib.; Breton Group, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia; Mendicants in Brittany, Card-Players in Brittany, G. A. Drummond, Baltimore; Death of a Vendean Chief (1876-77), Metropolitan Museum, New York.

WYNANTS, JAN, born in Haarlem about 1615, died after 1679. Dutch school; landscape painter, whose pictures are characterized by a certain prosaic truthfulness, fine aërial perspective, silvery toned backgrounds, and careful execution of details. Adriaan van de Velde, Lingelbach, and Wouwerman, also Barent Gael, Schellinks, and Helt-Stockade, supplied his foreground figures. Works: Landscapes (4), Sandbank in a River, National Gallery, London; others in Buckingham Palace, and in collections of Lord Ashburton and Mr. Baring, ib.; Forest Border (1668), Landscapes (2), Louvre; Landscapes (4), Brussels Museum; do. (2), Antwerp Museum; do. (2, 1659, 1675), Hague Museum; do. (8, one dated 1669), Amsterdam Museum; do. (8, three dated 1651, 1666, 1672), Munich Gallery; do. (3), Dresden Gallery; do. (2, one dated 1674), Vienna Museum; do. (1666), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; do. (2), Czernin Gallery, ib.; do. (3) Schönborn Historical Society, ib.; do. (8, three dated 1656, 1675, 1679), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; others in Augsburg, Copenhagen (1660), Stockholm, Gotha (1661), Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt (1671), and Städel (1671) Galleries.—Immerzeel, iii. 253; Kramm, vi. 1891; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 463; Dohme, 1ii.; Burger, Musées, i. 138; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xiii. 63.

WYNFIELD, DAVID WILKIE, born in 1837. Grand-nephew of David Wilkie. History painter, pupil in London of J. M. Leigh; exhibited first in 1859, Undine. Works: Meeting of Edward IV. and Elizabeth Woodville (1863); Rival Queens (1864); Last Days of Elizabeth (1865); Death of Cromwell (1867); Cromwell's First Appearance in Parliament (1868); Rich Widow (1869); Communication of Importance (1870); Round the Fountain; Confidences (1871); Arrest of Anne Boleyn (1872); The Ladye's Knight (1873); Visit from Inquisitors (1874); Queen Elizabeth and Essex (1875); New Curate, Market Morning (1876); David before Saul, Discovery of Gold in Australia, Harvest Decorations (1877); Joseph and his Brethren, Sunny Hours (1878); Ruth and Boaz (1879); At Traitor's Gate (1880); Origin of the English Woollen Trade (1881); Royal Musician (1882); Courtship of William II. of Orange (1883); Last "On dit" (1884); Fall of Queen Elizabeth Woodville (1886).—Portfolio (1871), 84.

WYNTRACK, D., 17th century, born in Drenthe, Netherlands. Dutch school; animal and landscape painter; very skilfully represented poultry, with which he often supplied the landscapes of Wynants and Ruisdael. His own landscapes are animated