WYTMAN with birds true to nature. Works : Farm- yard, Louvre ; Interior of Dutch Kitchen, Hamburg Gallery ; Autumn Landscape, Christiania Museum ; Ducks in Landscape by Wynants (1671), Stadel Gallery, Frank- fort ; Two Village Views, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. WYTMAN, MATHEUS, born at Goriuch- em about 1650, died about 1689. Dutch school ; genre, landscape, and still-life paint- er, pupil of Hendrik Verschuuring and J. Bylaert in Utrecht, painted elaborate genre pieces in the style of Caspar Netscher, with carefully executed landscapes for back- grounds. Later he devoted him- self successfully to fruit and flower painting. Works : Girl turning Leaves of Music Book, Dresden Mu- seum ; Two Portraits, Schwerin Gallery. Immerzeel, iii. 254. XANTHE AND PHAON, W. T. Walters, Baltimore ; water- colour, dated 1883. Scene from "A Question," by George Ebers. "The marble seat, on which the young people's fate was decided, was called by the grand- children of the wedded pair, who lived in old age in love and harmony, the bench of the question." XENO, Greek painter, of Sicyon, pupil of Neocles, date unknown. Mentioned by Pliny (xxxv. 40 [146J) as of fair reputation. XYLANDEK, VILHELM FERDINAND, born in Copenhagen, April 1, 1840. Ma- rine and landscape painter, pupil of Copen- hagen Academy, then in Munich of Christian Morgenstern ; lived in Copenhagen in 1862- 68, visited London in 1865, and settled in Munich in 1868. Works : Moonlight on Lake Starnberg ; do. near Hiigeniis ; do. on North Sea ; Coast of Southampton ; Mouth of the Thames ; Hamburg Harbour ; Isle of Sylt ; Flensburg Harbour ; Moon- light on Roadstead of Portsmouth ; do. near Hellebeck on the Sound. Muller, 569 ; Weilbach, 764. YANEZ, HERNANDO, born at Alme- diua, La Mancha, died between 1550 and 1560. Spanish school ; painted in 1531 a series of pictures on panel for chapel of the Albornoces, Cathedral of Cu- enca. Their resemblance to the manner of Leonardo da Vinci led to a belief that lie might have studied in his school Stirling, i. 152. YARMOUTH PIER, John Constable. Foreground, a beach, with pier at right ; at left, vessels at sea. Royal Academy in 1831. Engraved by D. Lucas. Brock-Ar- nold, 105. YARZ, EDMOND, born at Toulouse ; contemporary. Landscape painter. Men- tion honourable ; Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works : Under the Apple-Trees, Cross- Road (1876) ; Vineyards near Toulouse, Gate of the Louvre (1878) ; Arab Garden in Morocco (1879) ; Heaths in Bloom near Fontainebleau, Fountain of Touarc (1880) ; Spring in a Park (1881) ; Entrance to the Canal of Giudecca, Autumn Morning (1882); Quay of the Slavonians in Venice at Twi- light, Night in Venice (1883) ; Entrance to Grand Canal, Statue of Colleone at Venice (1884) ; Gardon River, Rocks of Malpas (1886). YEAMES, WILLIAM FREDERICK,
- born at Taganrog,
South Russia, De- ] cember, 1835. His- tory and genre ' painter ; taken by his father, British Consul at Tagan- 1 rog, to Italy in 1842-43 ; studied in Dresden from 1843 to 1848, when he became a pupil in London of J. S. West- macott and of George Scharf ; in 1852 went to Florence, and studied two years under Professor Pallastriui and Raffaelle Buona- juti; later studied in Rome, and returned to England in 1858. Exhibited at Royal Academy, in 1859, The Staunch Friend; 455
