Page:Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887, vol 1.djvu/521

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DRAEGEB 1877 were : Dame Blanche, Ariel, Return of | Dragon Slayer, Witch's Home, Enchanted j Tree, Haunted Park, Fairy Rings, Kelpie Stone, and Ha worth 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, Tri- ' umphal Entry of the Queen (1881) ; Welsh ; Legend (1882); Home of Charlotte Bronte, Schwein-General of Nassau (1883). DRAEGER, JOSEF ANTON, bora at Treves in 1800, died in Rome in 1843. History painter, pupil in Dresden of Ku- gelgen ; went in 1821 to Italy and settled in Rome, where he painted religious and his- torical subjects with unusual glow and bril- liancy of colour, in imitation of the Vene- tian masters. Works : St. Matthew (1820); St. Cecelia ; The Shepherds ; The two Ro- man 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 Ludvvig Richter ; went in 1841 to Munich and later to Rome, where he settled, visit- ing Germany only temporarily in 1850-51 and 1866. His name was really Karl Hein- j rich, 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 Saturn iau Age ; Land- scape with Diana's Chase, Autumn in Sabine Mountains, Nationtd Gallery, Berlin ; Good Samaritan (1848), Dresden Gallery; Sappho, Schack Gallery, Munich. Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 385 ; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 681. DRESSLER, ADOLF, bom at Breslau, March 14, 1833, died there, Aug. 7, 1881. Landscape painter, pupil in Breslau of Ko- nig and of Resch, and in Frankfort of the Stadel Institute under Jacob Becker ; after a trip to the Tyrol, settled in Breslau in 1862. Honorary member of the Socivtu beige des Aquarellistes in 1866. Professor in 1880, at the newly-created Art-school at Breslau. Works : Ideal Landscape ; Sylvan Solitude ; View of Capri ; Rothwasser Val- ley in the Riesengebirge ; View in the Eulen- gebirge ; River Landscape in Silesia ; Flat Country on the Oder with Landing ; River Landscape in Midsummer. Kunst-Clirouik, xviii. 362. DREUX, ALFRED DE, bora in Paris in 1812, died in March, 1860. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Leon Cogniet. Became known chiefly through his hunting- pieces and animated though exaggerated rep- resentations of horsea 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, Mar- tyrdom of St. Hippolytus, Battle of Baugu, Hunting with a Falcon, Time of Charles VH., Imperial Guard (1855) ; Portrait* of the Duke of Nemours on horseback, of Napoleon HL and others. Ch. Blanc, Ecole fran<;aise ; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 82 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), v. 26. DROLLING, MARTIN, born at Ober- bcrgheim, 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 mas- ters, and painted a great number of fam- ily and conversation scenes in the style of Greuze, which were very popular. Works: Interior of a Kitchen (1815), Louvre ; Brok- en Pitcher ; Curious Treasure ; Village Fam- ily hearing a Letter Read ; Good Samaritan, Lyons Museum ; Little Commissionaire, and others, M. Burat, Paris ; Little Girl Draw- ing ; Going to Market ; The Farmer ; The Good-Morning, Village Interior, Quilting 425