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 with birds true to nature. Works: Farmyard, Louvre; Interior of Dutch Kitchen, Hamburg Gallery; Autumn Landscape, Christiania Museum; Ducks in Landscape by Wynants (1671), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Two Village Views, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

WYTMAN, MATHEUS, born at Gorinchem about 1650, died about 1689. Dutch school; genre, landscape, and still-life painter, pupil of Hendrik Verschuuring and J. Bylaert in Utrecht, painted elaborate genre pieces in the style of Caspar Netscher, with carefully executed landscapes for backgrounds. Later he devoted himself successfully to fruit and flower painting. Works: Girl turning Leaves of Music Book, Dresden Museum; Two Portraits, Schwerin Gallery.—Immerzeel, iii. 254.

XANTHE AND PHAON, Alma-Tadema, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; water-*colour, dated 1883. Scene from "A Question," by George Ebers. "The marble seat, on which the young people's fate was decided, was called by the grandchildren of the wedded pair, who lived in old age in love and harmony, the bench of the question."

XENO, Greek painter, of Sicyon, pupil of Neocles, date unknown. Mentioned by Pliny (xxxv. 40 [146]) as of fair reputation.

XYLANDER, VILHELM FERDINAND, born in Copenhagen, April 1, 1840. Marine and landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy, then in Munich of Christian Morgenstern; lived in Copenhagen in 1862-68, visited London in 1865, and settled in Munich in 1868. Works: Moonlight on Lake Starnberg; do. near Högenäs; do. on North Sea; Coast of Southampton; Mouth of the Thames; Hamburg Harbour; Isle of Sylt; Flensburg Harbour; Moonlight on Roadstead of Portsmouth; do. near Hellebeck on the Sound.—Müller, 569; Weilbach, 764.

YANEZ, HERNANDO, born at Almedina, La Mancha, died between 1550 and 1560. Spanish school; painted in 1531 a series of pictures on panel for chapel of the Albornoces, Cathedral of Cuenca. Their resemblance to the manner of Leonardo da Vinci led to a belief that he might have studied in his school.—Stirling, i. 152.

YARMOUTH PIER, John Constable. Foreground, a beach, with pier at right; at left, vessels at sea. Royal Academy in 1831. Engraved by D. Lucas.—Brock-Arnold, 105.

YARZ, EDMOND, born at Toulouse; contemporary. Landscape painter. Mention honourable; Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Under the Apple-Trees, Cross-Road (1876); Vineyards near Toulouse, Gate of the Louvre (1878); Arab Garden in Morocco (1879); Heaths in Bloom near Fontainebleau, Fountain of Touarc (1880); Spring in a Park (1881); Entrance to the Canal of Giudecca, Autumn Morning (1882); Quay of the Slavonians in Venice at Twilight, Night in Venice (1883); Entrance to Grand Canal, Statue of Colleone at Venice (1884); Gardon River, Rocks of Malpas (1886).

YEAMES, WILLIAM FREDERICK, born at Taganrog, South Russia, December, 1835. History and genre painter; taken by his father, British Consul at Taganrog, to Italy in 1842-43; studied in Dresden from 1843 to 1848, when he became a pupil in London of J. S. Westmacott and of George Scharf; in 1852 went to Florence, and studied two years under Professor Pallastrini and Raffaelle Buonajuti; later studied in Rome, and returned to England in 1858. Exhibited at Royal Academy, in 1859, The Staunch Friend;