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 Montmartre in 1814 (1840); Baden Cavalry in Battle on the Beresina (1842); the Four Hundred of Pforzheim in Battle of Wimpffen (1843); Before the Gates of Leipsic (1846), Carlsruhe Art-Union; Explosion of Danish Man-of-War Christian VIII. (1849), Night Review of Napoleon I. (1853), Destruction of Heidelberg under Mela (1856), Carlsruhe Gallery; Eleanor of Sweden beside Coffin of Gustavus Adolphus (1857), Carlsruhe Gallery; Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria in Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, Bavarian Cavalry in Battle of Brienne, Attack of Bavarians on Turks at the Siege of Vienna (1862), National Museum, Munich; Blücher crossing Rhine near Caub (1863); March to Paris in 1814, National Gallery, Berlin; Flight of American Family over the Susquehanna (1867); Episode from Battle of Langensalza (1867); Parade of Baden Division before King William; Afterpiece to Battle of Rossbach; Meeting of German Cavalry after Battle of Hochstädt.—Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 209; Brockhaus, v. 339; Illustr. Zeitg. (1871), i. 275; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 75; Regnet, i. 64.

DIEUDONNÉ, EMMANUEL DE, born in Geneva, Switzerland, naturalized in France; contemporary. Figure and portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel. Medal: 3d class, 1881. Works: Fatma (1879); Spectre of the Rose (1880); Tamerlane and Bajazet (1881); Bazaar at Cairo, Carmen (1882); Jupiter and Juno (1883); Madame Angot (1884); Guitar, Reve du Kief (1885).

DIEZ, SAMUEL FRIEDRICH, born at Neuhaus, Meiningen, Dec. 19, 1803, died at Meiningen, March 11, 1873. Portrait, genre, and landscape painter, pupil in 1822-25 of the Munich Academy; made court painter in Meiningen in 1832. During his visits to the German courts, St. Petersburg, (1839), Stockholm (1842), London (1841 and 1845), Paris (1842), Brussels (1845), he collected his album of European celebrities, comprising 300 portraits. During the last ten years of his life he painted also genre pictures and landscapes, the latter very successfully.—Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 218.

DIEZ, WILHELM, born at Baireuth, Jan. 17, 1839. Genre and battle painter, pupil of the Munich Academy for a short time under Piloty; attracted attention first by his illustrations to Schiller's Thirty Years' War. His genre pictures are on a small scale in the manner of Meissonier. In 1872 he became professor at the Munich Academy. Works: Marauders, Ambuscade (1873); Travellers in 17th Century (1874); At the Sutler's (1876); Two Horsemen by an Inn, Horse-Market (1878); His Excellency travelling (1879); From the 16th Century, Picnic, National Gallery, Berlin.—Brockhaus, v. 341; Müller, 137; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xix. 130.

DIGBY, Sir KENELM, portrait, Anton van Dyck, Windsor Castle. Another, half-length, National Portrait Gallery, London.

By Anton van Dyck, Wingfield Digby, Esq., Sherborne. Sir K. D. and family, half-length, figures seated.

DIGBY, Lady VENETIA, portrait, Anton van Dyck, Earl Spencer, Althorp House. Death-bed picture; half-length, lying, as if in sleep; by her side a withered rose. Painted in 1633, after Lady Digby's death (May 1, 1633). Replica, Dulwich Gallery.—Head, 46.

DIGBY, Lady VENETIA, portrait, Anton van Dyck, Windsor Castle.

DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE, Sir Edwin Landseer, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 2 ft. 11 in. × 2 ft. 3 in. An old bloodhound, of the Duke of Grafton's breed, and a little Scotch terrier looking out of the same kennel. British Institute, 1839; bequeathed by Jacob Bell in 1859.—Cat. Nat. Gal.

DILLENS, ADOLF, born at Ghent, Jan. 2, 1821, died there in January, 1877. History and genre painter, brother and pupil of Hendrik D.; first works were historical, but later exhibited pictures illustrative of Zealand peasant life. Medals: Brussels, 1848, 1850, 1854; Paris, 3d class, 1855;