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 *pold. Member of St. Petersburg Academy. Works: Mill at Montreux (1832); Alpine Hut in Meyring Valley (1834); Chalet in High Alps, Evening in the Valley, Torrent in the Alps (1840); Glacier of Rosenheim (1841), Lausanne Museum; Oaks struck by Lightning (1847), Geneva Museum; View on Brienz Lake, Berne Museum; Mountain Landscape with Torrent, New Pinakothek, Munich; Storm on Lake of Geneva.—Brockhaus, v. 316; Faber, ii. 612; Larousse, vi. 763; Vapereau (1880), 572; L'Art (1878), i. 24.

DIDIER, JULES, born in Paris, May 26, 1831. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Cogniet and of Laurens; won the grand prix de Rome in 1857. Medals in 1866 and 1869. Works: Farm in Roman Campagna (1866), Luxembourg Museum; Normandy Landscape (1868); Hunting a Hare, Count de Chabrillan; Morning on the Borders of a Wood, Sacrifice to Pan (1874); Lost Ox, Evening at Ostia (1879); Two Bulls and the Frog, Ford of the Arou (1880); Fable of the Women and the Secret (1881); Agriculture (1882); Souvenir of a Journey to the Mines of Taquah, Between Rome and Civita Vecchia (1883); Legend of St. Hubert, Portrait of Fox (1884); Ford near Autun, Relay (1885); Return of the Drove, William Astor, New York.

DIDO AND ÆNEAS, Joseph M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 10 in. × 7 ft. 11 in. The Queen with Æneas and her Court in long procession, prepared for the chase; in background, Carthage. (Dryden's Æneid, iv.) Royal Academy, 1814. Engraved by W. R. Smith; J. T. Willmore in Turner Gallery.

DIDO BUILDING CARTHAGE, Joseph M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 5 ft. × 7 ft. 5 in. River scene, with bridge in front, and piles of classic architecture, completed and in progress; Dido, surrounded by her people, on left; on right, monument to her murdered husband, Sychæus. Royal Academy, 1815. Bequeathed by Turner on condition that it and the Sun rising in a Mist should be hung between two Claudes, as they now are. Engraved by T. A. Prior; E. Goodall, in Turner Gallery.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Hamerton, Life.

DIDO, DEATH OF, Guercino, Palazzo Spada, Rome. The queen, richly dressed, lies on her funeral pile, with sword buried to the hilt in her bosom. Raising the upper part of her body with difficulty, she speaks to one of her attendants whose features express sympathy. To the right, men and women weeping; others to the left. In the background is seen the fleet of Æneas sailing away, and with it a flying Cupid. Fine colour and excellent effect. Painted about 1626. Engraved by G. Balestra; R. Strange.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 3; Lavice, 387.

By Sir Joshua Reynolds, Buckingham Palace; canvas, H. 4 ft. 9 in. × 7 ft. 9 in. Three figures. Dido, having mounted the funeral pyre, stabs herself, and dies in the arms of her sister Anna. Exhibited in 1781. Bought, after Sir Joshua's death, by his niece, the Marchioness of Thomond, for £200; at her sale (1821), purchased for George IV. Engraved S. W. Reynolds.—Waagen, Treasures, ii. 24.

DIEFFENBACH, ANTON HEINRICH, born at Wiesbaden, Feb. 4, 1831. Genre painter, pupil in Düsseldorf of Jordan; returned in 1858 to Wiesbaden, lived in 1863-70 in Paris, then for one year in Switzerland, and in 1871 settled in Berlin. His favourite sphere is children's and peasant life. Works: Day before Wedding (1862); Hunter's Cant (1863); Dangerous Meeting, Christmas Eve (1865); Visiting the Nurse (1869); First Walk, Tidbit, National Gallery, Berlin; Missed the Fox; Only Courage! Leave little Brother! (1877).—Brockhaus, v. 323; Müller, 135.

DIEGO OF ALCALA, ST., Murillo, Duc de Pozzo di Borgo, Paris; canvas, H. 5 ft. 10 in. × 6 ft. 3 in. The Saint kneeling, imploring aid for the victims of an epidemic, from an alcalde who recoils as if fearing contagion; background, architecture and people. The figure beside the alcalde said to