DECKER Watch at Smyrna, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New Continental Congress signing the Declara- York ; Italian Washerwomen, A. Belmont, tioii of Independence in Independence Hall, New York ; Dog, J. H. Stebbins, New York ; Philadelphia, in 1776. John Hancock sits Good Samaritan, Fishermen's Huts, B. Wall, j at a table, on which rests the Declaration ; Providence ; Calais Fisherman, Erwiu Davis, ' near him, standing, are Jefferson, Adams, New York ; Playing with Pussy in Bed, Fal- I Franklin, Sherman, and Livingston, the coners, D. 0. Mills, New York; Italian Family, 'committee who had reported the draft of Bashi-Bazouk, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York ; | the instrument ; seated in chairs around the The Suicide, W. T. Walters, Baltimore ; De- j room are the other members of the Congress. tachment of Cavalry, Landscape, Prayer in Painted in 1817-24 for $8,000 ; original Desert, The Prodigal, Old Mill at Waterloo, A. E. Borie Collection, Philadelphia. Burty, Life, etc.; Chesneau, Peinture franyaise (Paris, 1883) ; Ch. Blanc, ficole franyaise ; ] Moreau, Decamps t son CEuvre (Paris, 1869) ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1862), vii. 97 ; Ham- ! erton, French Painters ; Perrier, 127 ; Meyer, Geseh., 255, 750. study in Yale College Gallery. Engraved on back of $100 United States national bank note. DE CONINCK, PIERRE (LOUIS JO- SEPH), bom at M6teren (Nord), Nov. 22, 1 1828. Genre painter, pupil of Leon Cogniet ; Etudes, ! won 2d prix de Rome in 1855. Medals in 1866 and 1868 ; 3d class, 1873. Works : DECKER (Dekker), CORNELLS GER- Csesar on the Vessel (1855) ; Eva on Uncle RITSZ, born about 1600, died in Haarlem, ', Tom's Knees (1857) ; Baron, Cossack (1859, buried March 23, 1678. Dutch school ; land- 1 horses of Imperial stud) ; 'Woman Bathing scape painter, pupil of Solomon Ruysdael ; j at Capri (1863); Torture of Queen Brune- registered in Haarlem guild in 1643. His ! haut, Ballet Girl Resting (1864) ; Christ pictures sometimes approach Ruysdael, but blessing Little Children (1865) ; Huntress, he was not skilful in atmospheric effects, j Two Friends (1866) ; Lavandara (1867) ; and his tones are heavy. A. van de Velde The Ordeal (1868) ; End of Carnival at Rome and Adrian van Ostade sometimes supplied (1869) ; Little Charmer (1870) ; Confidence, the figures in his pictures. Works : Two j The Ring (1873) ; Candy, Idling, Kittens landscapes, Louvre ; Rural Dwelling, with (1874); Pastorella, Ave Maria, Friend of the trees and a canal, Rotterdam Museum ; Halt : Little Birds (1875) ; A Trappist Monk.Charm- at the Inn (1642), Berlin Museum ; Peasant ing Little Girl (1876) ; Little Girl Studying Cottage, figures by Ostade, Old Pinakothek, (1877) ; Cornelia (1878) ; Mater Dolorosa Munich ; two landscapes, Haussmann Col- lection, Hanover; wood landscape (1666), Copenhagen Gallery ; Edge of a Wood, Metropolitan Museum, New York. By J. (1879) ; Hops (1880) ; Hare caught in a Trap (1881) ; Fishing for Eels, Spoiled Girl (1882) ; A Good Hunt (1883); Small Fish will grow Large (1884); The Trappist, Primi- Decker (flourished 1640-60), otherwise un- tive Hunting (1885). Works in the United known, A Smithy (signed and dated 1644), CD- in the Berlin Museum. Kugler (Crowe), ii. 479. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, States : At the Fountain, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York; Little Bird-Charmer, D. T. Buzby, Baltimore ; Violin Girl, A. J. Antelo, Philadelphia. DEDREUX. See Dreux. DEELEN, DIRK VAN, born at Heusden about 1607, died at Arnemuyden, Zeeland, May 16, 1673. Dutch school ; architecture painter ; said to be a pupil of Frans Hals, John Trumbull, rotunda of Capitol, Washing- which is very doubtful ; visited Italy about ton ; canvas, H. 12 ft. x 18 ft. The Second 1631, lived temporarily at Haarlem, Delft,
