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Clignancourt; Temptation of Christ (1872); Our Lady of the Seven Troubles (1878).


DUNCAN GRAY, Sir David Wilkie, South Kensington Museum; canvas, H. 2 ft. 1 in. × 1 ft. 9 in. Called also The Refusal. Scene from Burns's "Duncan Gray." Meg, seated beside a table at left, refusing Duncan Gray, who is seated at right; behind her is her mother sitting, and her father standing. Exhibited at Royal Academy in 1814; bought by Lord Charles Townshend, who sold it to Mr. Sheepshanks. Mulready is said to have sat for Duncan Gray, and his father for the father of Meg. Meg herself is Wilkie's sister. Engraved by F. Engleheart.—Heaton, Works of Sir D. W.


DUNCAN, THOMAS, born at Kinclaven, Perthshire, May 24, 1807, died in Edinburgh, May 25, 1845. Student in 1827 in Royal Scottish Academy, of which became a member in 1830; exhibited in Royal Academy, London, his Prince Charles Edward entering Edinburgh after Preston Pans (1840); Auld Robin Gray (1841), and Deerstalkers (1842); and elected A.R.A. in 1843. The first-named picture and his Prince Charles Asleep after Culloden, which are well engraved, are his best works.—Redgrave; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Sandby, ii. 213.


DÜNTZE, JOHANNES (BARTHOLOMÄUS), born at Rablinghausen, near Bremen, May 6, 1823. Landscape painter, pupil of Munich Academy, then in Berlin of Krause and in 1851-55 in Geneva of Calame; studied then in Paris. In 1845, and again later, he visited Norway, Switzerland, Tyrol, and the Netherlands, and in 1856 settled in Düsseldorf. Works: Sogne Fjord (1860); Winter Landscapes with Architecture (1860); Lake in Norwegian Mountains. Others in Galleries of Hanover, Stuttgart, Berne, and Sidney, Australia.—Dioskuren, 1860, 146; Müller, 147.


DÜNWEGGE, HEINRICH, and VICTOR, 16th century, in Dortmund about 1521. German school. Two able but second-rate painters of religious pictures. Works: Holy Kith and Kin, Antwerp Museum; Triptych, Dominican Church, Dortmund (1521); Crucifixion, Münster Museum; Do not Bear False Witness, Town Hall, Wesel; Predella, Parish Church, Calkar; Crucifixion, Munich Gallery; Bewailing Christ, St. Maurice Chapel, Nuremberg; Madonna, Darmstadt Gallery.—Lübke, Kunst in Westfalen, 360; W. & W., ii. 500; Förster, ii. 164; Kunstblatt (1841), 102; (1843), 90.


DUPAIN, EDMOND (LOUIS), born at Bordeaux, Jan. 13, 1847. Genre painter, pupil of Cabanel and Gué. Medals: 3d class, 1875; 1st class, 1877. Works: Death of the Nymph Hesperis (1870); In the Arbor (1872); The Aged Hunter (1873); A Huntress (1874); Youth and Death (1875); Sleep (1876); Good Samaritan, St. Gervais and St. Protaïs led out to Martyrdom (1877); Export Duty at Bordeaux (1878); The Girondists Pétion and Buzot (1880); Springtime driving away Winter (1881); The Choice of Weapons, Adrift (1882); The Hard Road, A Parisian Woman (1883).—Montrosier, ii.


DÜPPEL AFTER THE STORMING, Wilhelm Camphausen, National Gallery, Berlin; canvas, H. 6 ft. 2 in. × 9 ft. 4 in. The German Crown Prince, with his staff, rides upon the field after the storming of Düppel in the Schleswig-Holstein war, April 18, 1864, and congratulates Prince Frederick Charles on his victory.


DUPRAY, HENRI LOUIS, born at Sedan (Ardennes), Nov. 3, 1841. History painter, pupil of Pils and of Léon Cogniet; ranks with Detaille and De Neuville as a leader of the new school of military painters. Medals: 2d class, 1872; 3d class, 1874; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Cuirassier (1865); Marshal Ney at Waterloo (1869); Battle of Waterloo (1870); Marines of the Pothuan Division (1872); Visiting the Advanced Posts (1874); Regiment of Hussars going to the Front of a Convoy, Troops in the Market-Place of St. Denis (1876); Great Autumn Manœuvres, Light Artillery going into Position (1877); Arrival of the Staff (1878); A Capitalist (1879); A Horse Unshod (1880); Departing Incognito (1884).—Montrosier, ii.