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 and Antwerp, and settled later in Arnemuyden, where he became burgomaster. His pictures, in which Van Herp, Palamedes, Stevens, and Wouwerman supplied the figures, are distinguished for their fine lineal and aerial perspective. Works: Colonnade with Christ and Adulteress (1627), Entrance to Palace (1667), Hall with Festive Assembly, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Court with Ball Players (1628), Louvre; Interior, do. with Duke Alva judging the Netherlands, Harrach Gallery, Vienna; Festive Assembly (1631), Stockholm Museum; St. Peter's in Rome (1632), Augsburg Gallery; Courtyard of Castle (1635), Interior of Gothic Church, Brunswick Museum; Concert-Room (1636), Rotterdam Museum; Interior of Castle (1638), two others, Lille Museum; Conversation in the Street (1636), Copenhagen Gallery; Garden-Palace (1640), Splendid Building with Colonnade, Vienna Museum; Portico of a Palace (1642), Brussels Museum; Courtyard of Palace (1647), Berlin Museum; Hall in the Binnenhof (1647), National Museum, Amsterdam; Interior of Italian Church (1648), Rothan Gallery, Paris; Allegory of Poetry and Painting (1668), Antwerp Museum; Interior (1625), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Palatial Buildings in Renaissance Style, National Gallery, London.—Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 19; Bode, Studien, 214; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 432; Zeitschr. f. b. K., ix. 95.

DEFAUX, ALEXANDRE, born at Bercy, Paris, Sept. 27, 1826. Landscape painter, pupil of Corot. His works have been more admired by the critics than by the general public. Medals: 3d class, 1874; 2d class, 1875; L. of Honour, 1881. Works: View at Caen, Abandoned Race-Course at Ivry (1859); View at St. Maur, Coast of Gravelle (1863); Plateau of Belle-Croix (1864); Environs of Méréville (1865); Dead Nature, Environs of Caen (1867); Marsh of Donville (1868); Evening in Spring-Time (1869); The River Yerres (1870); Fine Winter Day in Bas-Meudon (1872); The Loire after a Flood (1873); Birch-Trees at Fontainebleau (1874); Spring-Time in the Woods (1875); The Loing during a Snow-Storm (1876); From Honfleur to Pennedepic, Gravel-Pit at Fontainebleau (1877); Spring Morning in Cernay (1878); Forest of Fontainebleau (1879); Morning at Château-Landon, Harbour of Pont-Aven (1880), Luxembourg Museum; The Loing, Island of Grande-Jatte (1881);	Road at Montigny, View from Montmartre (1882); Old Birches at the Pigeon Pond in Fontainebleau, Montigny-sur-Loing (1883); Cherry Trees in Blossom, Low Tide in Normandy (1884); Pastime of a Flock of Geese, After the Storm (1885).

DEFREGGER, FRANZ VON, born at Stronach, Tyrol, April 30, 1835. Genre painter, pupil at the Munich Academy under Anschütz, then studied for eighteen months in Paris, spent two years in the Tyrol, and in 1867 entered Piloty's school at Munich, where he has resided since 1871. Medal, Paris, 3d Class, 1878. Honorary member of the Munich, Vienna, and Berlin Academies; ennobled in 1883. Works: Forester's Last Return (1867), The Young Poachers, Speckbacher and his Son (1869), Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Wrestling Match (1870); Ball on the Alp (1871); Surprised Poachers (1871); The Two Brothers (1872); The Prize-Horse (1873); The Beggar Singers (1873); Madonna (1873); The Arrière-*Ban (1874), Zither Player, Vienna Museum; The Bitten Goose (1875); Return of the Victors (1876), National Gallery, Berlin; Saying Grace, Leipsic Museum; Farewell of the Alpine Herd-Keeper, Dresden Gallery; Andreas Hofer's last Walk, Königsberg Museum; Andreas Hofer in the Palace at Innsbruck (1879); The Smith of Kochel (1881), New Pinakothek, Munich; The Love-Letter (1882);	On the Dancing Floor (1882); The Fashionable Tyrolese (1883), National Gal