WAGNER and Apostles taking Leave of Mary, Jupiter urging Agamemnon to Combat, AViirzburg University. Audresen, i. 37 ; Cotta's Kunst- bl. (1836-47) ; Eaczynski, ii. 459. WAGNER, MAEIA DOROTHEA, bom at Weimar in 1728, died at Meissen (?) in 1788. German school ; landscape and his- tory painter, sister of Christian Wilhelm Dietrich, whom she took for her model. Works : Valley with Brook and Mill, Dres- den Museum ; Landscape with Cottages and Figures (2), Gotha Museum. Her son, Johann Georg (1744-66), was also a land- scape painter of merit, pupil of his uncle Dietrich, and of Josef Roos. In the Chris- tiania Gallery are by him : The Defile, and Landscape with Hills and Woods. WAGRAM, BATTLE OF, Horace Ver- net, Versailles Museum ; canvas. Battle fought on July 6, 1809. Napoleon, in the saddle, watching through a glass the cav- alry charge. Close behind him the horse of Bessieres, Duke of Istria, is struck down by a cannon-ball. Engraved by J. M. Fon- taine. Gal. de Versailles, iv. No. 905. WAGREZ, JACQUES CLEMENT, born in Paris ; contemporary. Genre and por- trait painter, chiefly in water-colours ; pupil of his father, of Farochon, Lenepveu, Pils, and Henri Lehmann. Medal, 3d class, 1879. Works: Francis I. and the Duchesse d'fitampes (1870) ; Etruscan Poet (1874) ; Eros, Lion of St. Mark (1876) ; War and Peace (1877) ; Education of Achilles, Diana (1878) ; Perseus, Dreams of the Cup- Bearer, and the Master of the Pantry (1879); Orestes (1880); Hesiod (1881); Cupid's Quadriga (1882) ; First Meeting (1883, 15th century scene in Florence) ; St. Clara of Assisi (1884); Wedding in St. Mark's Venice in 15th Century (1885). WAHLBERG, ALFRED, born in Stock- holm, Aug. 6, 1834. Landscape painter, pupil of Diisseldorf Academy, and in Paris of Corot and Daubigny. Member of Stock- holm Academy. Medals : Paris, 1870 ; 2d class, 1872 ; 1st class, 1878 ; L. of Honour, 1874 ; Officer, 1878 ; Order of Vasa. Works : Winter Landscape (figures by Wallander), View in Kolmarden, Stockholm Museum ; Moonlight ; Sunset on the Coast ; Beech Wood near Copenhagen ; Harbour of Wax- holm at Night ; Coming Storm, Moonlight on River Bank, Seney Collection, New York ; Near Stockholm Moonlight, Autumn Sun- set Waxholm, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib. ; Coast of Norway, J. J. Astor, ib. ; Cascade of Husq- varna Sweden (1884). Miiller, 543. WALCH, JAKOB, born in Nuremberg, beginning of 15th century. German school ; excellent portrait painter, not to be con- founded with Jacob Walch, called Jacopo de' Barbari. Works : Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I., Munich Gallery ; do., Mu- seum, Vienna ; do., Emperor Frederic HI., and Male Portrait, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. WALDENBURG, ALFRED VON, born in Berlin, Dec. 17, 1847. Landscape paint- er, pupil in Munich of Franz Adam and of Lier, and in Carlsruhe of Gude ; studied nature in Silesia, Bavaria, Tyrol, Switzer- land, Italy, and Southern France, and set- tled in Diisseldorf in 1879. Works : Chap- el near Amden, Carlsruhe Gallery ; Ziller Valley, Strasburg Gallery ; Pegli near Genoa ; On Chiem Lake ; Varenna on Lake Como ; Villa Andreossy, ib. ; View near Nice ; Road near Villafranca ; Oaks near Aisching. Miiller, 544 ; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 58. WALDMULLER, FERDINAND (GEORG), born in Vienna in 1793, died there, Aug. 23, 1865. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Vi- enna Academy ; went to Presburg to paint portraits, thence as drawing teacher with Count Gyulai to Agrarn, where he mar- ried an actress, with whom he wandered through the provincial towns until she found an engagement in Vienna ; there he became professor and the custodian of the Lamberg 402
