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DONNEB 536 ; Passavant, ii. 276 ; Springer (Dohme 2ii.), 251; Art Journal (1882), 1. DONNEB, OTTO, born in Frankfort, May 10, 1828. History painter, pupil of the Stildel 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 Schwiud's frescos in the Vienna Donna Velala, Raphael (?), Palazzo Pitti, Florence. Opera House, and was then for ten years in Home, where he painted genre scenes from Italian life and the antique world ; returned to Frankfort in 1876. Works : Ltttzow's Men beside Korner's Body ; Satyr with Nymphs resting after the Chase (18G3); Vintage at Ischia ; Interior of Pompeiiau Winter Gar- den ; The Forsaken, Campanian Tavern ; Evening Scene before Herculaneum Gate ; Portraits of Prince and Princess Scherbatoff, Princess Bariatiusky, Emperor William (1877). Mtlller, 139. DONZELLO, PIETRO DEL, bom in Florence in 1451, died there, Feb. 24, 1509. Florentine school ; son of Francesco d' An- tonio di Jacopo, bailiff (donzello) of the Sig- noria of Florence. He and his brother Poli- to, 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 kte as 1480. Several panels of doubtful authenticity in the Naples Muse- um, 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, Ecole napolitaiue. DOPPLER, KARL EMIL, bora at Schnepfenthal, Gotha, March 8, 1824. Genre painter ; devoted himself at first, from 1844, to architectural painting, lived then for sev- eral 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 tho theatre and teacher at the art-school, and in 1870 settled in Berlin. Works: Ambus- cade in time of Henry HI. ; The Widow of Sadowa ; The Secret, Duchess Maria Anna and Duke Charles of Zweibrtlcken, National Museum, Munich ; The Four Main Festivals of the Year. Brockhaus, v. 477; Muller, 140 ; Ulustr. Zeitg. (1870), i. 176. DORtf, GUSTAVE PAUL, born in Stras- burg, Jan. 6, 1833, died in Paris, Jan. 27, 1883. History painter and de- signer; original name Dorer, changed by him to French form. Went to Paris when fifteen years old and began by contributing sketches to illustrated periodi- cals. Exhibited in Salon in 1848 pen-and- ink landscape drawings, and in 1855 his first 419