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 YKENS, PEETER, born at Antwerp, baptized Jan. 30, 1648, died there shortly after July, 1695. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Jan Ykens (1613-79, sculptor and painter); master of the guild in 1673, dean in 1689. Works: St. Catharine disputing with the Philosophers (1684), Two Portraits (1690, 1693), Museum, Antwerp; Last Supper (1687), St. Andrew's, ib.; Portrait of Canon Emanuel van Horenbeeck, St. James's, ib.; Christ giving the Keys to St. Peter (1690), Church at Wommelghem; Christ appearing to the Husband of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Two Episodes in Life of St. Francis Xavier, St. Mary's Hospital, Mechlin; Christ appearing to St. Theresa, Lille Museum. His sister, Catharine (born in February, 1659), was a flower and fruit painter, pupil of her father, and master of the guild in 1688. In the Madrid Museum are by her a Festoon of Flowers and Fruits, and a Garland, both around small landscapes. His son, Jan Peeter (born in 1673), was also a good painter.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers, 548; Rooses (Reber), 431; Van den Branden, 951, 1146.

YON, EDMOND CHARLES, born at Montmartre, Paris, Feb. 2, 1836. Landscape painter, pupil of Lequien. At first practised wood engraving, but since 1875 has painted many charming views from the environs of Paris. Medals: 3d class, 1875; 2d class, 1879; L. of Honour, 1886. Works: Two Views near Montereau (1875); Branch of the Marne, Seine near Gravon (1876); Before the Rain (1878); Banks of the Marne (1879); Canal of La Villette, Isle-les-Villenoy on the Marne (1880); Villerville, Marsh of Cricque-*bœuf (1881); River Eure (1882), Luxembourg Museum; San Marco (1882); The Squall (1883); The Dune, Mouth of the Dive (1884); The Meuse at Dordrecht (1885); Frog Fishers, The Carp Hole (1886).—Bellier, ii. 728.

YORICK AND THE GRISETTE, Gilbert Stuart Newton, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 2 ft. 5-1/2 in. × 1 ft. 10-1/2 in. Interior of a hosier's shop. Yorick purchasing gloves, the beautiful grisette measuring them one by one across his hand (Sterne's "Sentimental Journey"). Royal Academy, 1830. Vernon Collection. Engraved by W. Watt; H. Bourne.

YOSEMITE VALLEY, Albert Bierstadt, Lenox Library, New York. Painted in 1866. Bierstadt painted also Looking down the Yosemite (1865), W. H. Crosby, New York; and Domes of the Yosemite, an almost panoramic picture, formerly owned by Le Grand Lockwood.

By Thomas Hill, Charles Crocker, San Francisco. Painted in 1871; Philadelphia Exhibition, 1876.

YOUNG BULL, Paul Potter, Hague Museum; canvas, H. 8 ft. × 12 ft.; signed, dated 1647. The young bull, brownish-red with patches of white, standing on rising ground under a tree, beside which a cow and a ewe and her lamb are lying down, and a ram is standing; behind a fence is a herdsman, with one hand on the tree, looking at the bull; background, a Dutch dairy farm, with cattle. A masterpiece; the animals, of life-size, appear to live and breathe. Sold in Fabricius Collection, Haarlem, in 1749, for 630 florins; carried to Paris; returned in 1816. Engraved by Le Bas; Couché; Battard; etched by Denon.—Smith, v. 118; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Réveil, xi. 789.

YOUNG, EDUARD, born in Prague in 1823. Genre and landscape painter, pupil in Munich of Piloty in 1864, having first studied at Linz, Upper Austria, and in Vienna, then (1855) in Munich, and been instructor in drawing of King Frederick VII. in Copenhagen, where he received the great