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 1877 were: Dame Blanche, Ariel, Return of Dragon Slayer, Witch's Home, Enchanted Tree, Haunted Park, Fairy Rings, Kelpie Stone, and Haworth Rectory. Other works: Rose-Red and Snow-White, Fish out of Water (1878); Pied Piper of Hamelin, Peace or War (1879); Battle of Elves and Frogs (1880); Sailor and Monkeys, Triumphal Entry of the Queen (1881); Welsh Legend (1882); Home of Charlotte Bronté, Schwein-General of Nassau (1883).

DRAEGER, JOSEF ANTON, born at Trèves in 1800, died in Rome in 1843. History painter, pupil in Dresden of Kügelgen; went in 1821 to Italy and settled in Rome, where he painted religious and historical subjects with unusual glow and brilliancy of colour, in imitation of the Venetian masters. Works: St. Matthew (1820); St. Cecelia; The Shepherds; The two Roman Women; Moses at the Well, National Gallery, Berlin.—Brockhaus, v. 519.

DREBER, FRANZ, born in Dresden, Jan. 9, 1822, died at Articoli di Campagna, Rome, Aug. 3, 1875. Landscape painter, pupil of the Dresden Academy and of Ludwig Richter; went in 1841 to Munich and later to Rome, where he settled, visiting Germany only temporarily in 1850-51 and 1866. His name was really Karl Heinrich, but he called himself Franz after his uncle and signed his pictures with that name. Works: Ravine with bathing Nymph; Wood-Landscape; Four Seasons, View in the Campagna; Sea-Shore with Nymphs; Psyche crowned by Eros; Ulysses by the Sea; Group from Saturnian Age; Landscape with Diana's Chase, Autumn in Sabine Mountains, National Gallery, Berlin; Good Samaritan (1848), Dresden Gallery; Sappho, Schack Gallery, Munich.—Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 385; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 681.

DRESSLER, ADOLF, born at Breslau, March 14, 1833, died there, Aug. 7, 1881. Landscape painter, pupil in Breslau of König and of Resch, and in Frankfort of the Städel Institute under Jacob Becker; after a trip to the Tyrol, settled in Breslau in 1862. Honorary member of the Société belge des Aquarellistes in 1866. Professor in 1880, at the newly-created Art-school at Breslau. Works: Ideal Landscape; Sylvan Solitude; View of Capri; Rothwasser Valley in the Riesengebirge; View in the Eulengebirge; River Landscape in Silesia; Flat Country on the Oder with Landing; River Landscape in Midsummer.—Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 362.

DREUX, ALFRED DE, born in Paris in 1812, died in March, 1860. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Léon Cogniet. Became known chiefly through his hunting-pieces and animated though exaggerated representations of horses. Medals: 3d class, 1834; 2d class, 1844, 1848; L. of Honour, 1857. Works: Interior of a Stable, Colt jumping a Ditch (1831); Alone at the Rendezvous; Race for a Kiss; Lady of the Castle (1847); Rich and Poor, Breakfast too Hot, Dog and Cat, Intimacy, The Return, The Death, Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus, Battle of Baugé, Hunting with a Falcon, Time of Charles VII., Imperial Guard (1855); Portraits of the Duke of Nemours on horseback, of Napoleon III. and others.—Ch. Blanc, École française; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 82; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), v. 26.

DRÖLLING, MARTIN, born at Oberbergheim, near Colmar, baptized Sept. 19, 1752, died in Paris, April 16, 1827. Genre painter; formed himself without a teacher by studying the pictures of Dutch masters, and painted a great number of family and conversation scenes in the style of Greuze, which were very popular. Works: Interior of a Kitchen (1815), Louvre; Broken Pitcher; Curious Treasure; Village Family hearing a Letter Read; Good Samaritan, Lyons Museum; Little Commissionaire, and others, M. Burat, Paris; Little Girl Drawing; Going to Market; The Farmer; The Good-Morning, Village Interior, Quilting