- pold. Member of St. Petersburg Academy.
Works: Mill at Montreux (1832); Alpine Hut in Meyring Valley (1834); Chalet in High Alps, Evening in the Valley, Torrent in the Alps (1840); Glacier of Rosenheim (1841), Lausanne Museum; Oaks struck by Lightning (1847), Geneva Museum; View on Brienz Lake, Berne Museum; Mountain Landscape with Torrent, New Pinakothek, Munich; Storm on Lake of Geneva.—Brockhaus, v. 316; Faber, ii. 612; Larousse, vi. 763; Vapereau (1880), 572; L'Art (1878), i. 24.
DIDIER, JULES, born in Paris, May 26,
1831. Landscape and animal painter, pupil
of Cogniet and of Laurens; won the
grand prix de Rome in 1857. Medals in
1866 and 1869. Works: Farm in Roman
Campagna (1866), Luxembourg Museum;
Normandy Landscape (1868); Hunting a
Hare, Count de Chabrillan; Morning on
the Borders of a Wood, Sacrifice to Pan
(1874); Lost Ox, Evening at Ostia (1879);
Two Bulls and the Frog, Ford of the Arou
(1880); Fable of the Women and the Secret
(1881); Agriculture (1882); Souvenir of a
Journey to the Mines of Taquah, Between
Rome and Civita Vecchia (1883); Legend of
St. Hubert, Portrait of Fox (1884); Ford
near Autun, Relay (1885); Return of the
Drove, William Astor, New York.
DIDO AND ÆNEAS, Joseph M. W.
Turner, National Gallery, London; canvas,
H. 4 ft. 10 in. × 7 ft. 11 in. The Queen
with Æneas and her Court in long procession,
prepared for the chase; in background,
Carthage. (Dryden's Æneid, iv.) Royal
Academy, 1814. Engraved by W. R. Smith;
J. T. Willmore in Turner Gallery.
DIDO BUILDING CARTHAGE, Joseph
M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London;
canvas, H. 5 ft. × 7 ft. 5 in. River scene, with
bridge in front, and piles of classic architecture,
completed and in progress; Dido, surrounded
by her people, on left; on right,
monument to her murdered husband, Sychæus.
Royal Academy, 1815. Bequeathed
by Turner on condition that it and the Sun
rising in a Mist should be hung between two
Claudes, as they now are. Engraved by T.
A. Prior; E. Goodall, in Turner Gallery.—Cat.
Nat. Gal.; Hamerton, Life.
DIDO, DEATH OF, Guercino, Palazzo
Spada, Rome. The queen, richly dressed,
lies on her funeral pile, with sword buried
to the hilt in her bosom. Raising the upper
part of her body with difficulty, she speaks
to one of her attendants whose features express
sympathy. To the right, men and
women weeping; others to the left. In the
background is seen the fleet of Æneas sailing
away, and with it a flying Cupid. Fine
colour and excellent effect. Painted about
1626. Engraved by G. Balestra; R. Strange.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 3; Lavice, 387.
By Sir Joshua Reynolds, Buckingham Palace; canvas, H. 4 ft. 9 in. × 7 ft. 9 in. Three figures. Dido, having mounted the funeral pyre, stabs herself, and dies in the arms of her sister Anna. Exhibited in 1781. Bought, after Sir Joshua's death, by his niece, the Marchioness of Thomond, for £200; at her sale (1821), purchased for George IV. Engraved S. W. Reynolds.—Waagen, Treasures, ii. 24.
DIEFFENBACH, ANTON HEINRICH,
born at Wiesbaden, Feb. 4, 1831. Genre
painter, pupil in Düsseldorf of Jordan; returned
in 1858 to Wiesbaden, lived in 1863-70
in Paris, then for one year in Switzerland,
and in 1871 settled in Berlin. His
favourite sphere is children's and peasant
life. Works: Day before Wedding (1862);
Hunter's Cant (1863); Dangerous Meeting,
Christmas Eve (1865); Visiting the Nurse
(1869); First Walk, Tidbit, National Gallery,
Berlin; Missed the Fox; Only Courage!
Leave little Brother! (1877).—Brockhaus,
v. 323; Müller, 135.
DIEGO OF ALCALA, ST., Murillo, Duc
de Pozzo di Borgo, Paris; canvas, H. 5 ft.
10 in. × 6 ft. 3 in. The Saint kneeling, imploring
aid for the victims of an epidemic,
from an alcalde who recoils as if fearing contagion;
background, architecture and people.
The figure beside the alcalde said to
