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536; Passavant, ii. 276; Springer (Dohme 2ii.), 251; Art Journal (1882), 1.


DONNER, OTTO, born in Frankfort, May 10, 1828. History painter, pupil of the Städel Institute until 1847, then in Paris of Delaroche, and in Munich of Schwind. Visited Italy in 1852, and in 1862 went again to Paris to study under Couture; practised for some years portrait painting there and in London; assisted in 1866 in the painting of Schwind's frescos in the Vienna Opera House, and was then for ten years in Rome, where he painted genre scenes from Italian life and the antique world; returned to Frankfort in 1876. Works: Lützow's Men beside Körner's Body; Satyr with Nymphs resting after the Chase (1863); Vintage at Ischia; Interior of Pompeiian Winter Garden; The Forsaken, Campanian Tavern; Evening Scene before Herculaneum Gate; Portraits of Prince and Princess Scherbatoff, Princess Bariatinsky, Emperor William (1877).—Müller, 139.

Donna Velata, Raphael (?), Palazzo Pitti, Florence.


DONZELLO, PIETRO DEL, born in Florence in 1451, died there, Feb. 24, 1509. Florentine school; son of Francesco d'Antonio di Jacopo, bailiff (donzello) of the Signoria of Florence. He and his brother Polito, or Ippolito (born in Florence in 1455, and apprenticed to Neri de' Bicci in 1469-71) were companions in that painter's studio, Florence, as late as 1480. Several panels of doubtful authenticity in the Naples Museum, as well as the wall paintings in the ex-refectory of S. Maria Nuova (probably by an Umbrian master) are attributed to them. De' Domenici, who makes the Donzelli Neapolitans and pupils of Colantonio del Fiore and Andrea Solario, is unreliable.—Vasari, ed. Mil., ii. 485; Burckhardt, 613; C. & C., N. Italy, i. 102; Ch. Blanc, École napolitaine.


DÖPPLER, KARL EMIL, born at Schnepfenthal, Gotha, March 8,1824. Genre painter; devoted himself at first, from 1844, to architectural painting, lived then for several years in New York, as illustrator, and returned in 1859 to study genre painting in Munich under Piloty. In 1860-70 he was in Weimar, as costume-draughtsman for the theatre and teacher at the art-school, and in 1870 settled in Berlin. Works: Ambuscade in time of Henry III; The Widow of Sadowa; The Secret, Duchess Maria Anna and Duke Charles of Zweibrücken, National Museum, Munich; The Four Main Festivals of the Year.—Brockhaus, v. 477; Müller, 140; Illustr. Zeitg. (1870), i. 176.



DORÉ, GUSTAVE PAUL, born in Strasburg, Jan. 6, 1833, died in Paris, Jan. 27, 1883. History painter and designer; original name Dorer, changed by him to French form. Went to Paris when fifteen years old and began by contributing sketches to illustrated periodicals. Exhibited in Salon in 1848 pen-and-ink landscape drawings, and in 1855 his first