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LATsG pageants ; spent eight years (18GO-G8) in Hungary, the Danubian principalities, and iu Paris ; took part in the campaign of 1870-71. Works : Hungarian Inn (1801) ; Horses in the Rushes (1805) ; Csikos driv- ing Horses back to the Herd (1805) ; Race- Course of Long-champs (1807) ; Hussar-Pa- trol, Steeple-Chase, Transportation of Horses (18(58) ; Hungarian Market-Scene, Attack of Brigade Bredow in Battle of Vionvillo, Bat- tle of Sedan (1872) ; Episode in Battle of "Worth (1875); Bay of Galata ; Second Ba- varian Army Corps crossing the Seine at Corbeil (1885) ; Catching "Wild Horses in Hungarian Puszta, Dresden Museum. Miil- ler, 310. LANG, LOUIS, b:>ni at Waldsee, Wiir- temberg, March 2!). 18U. Portrait and figure painter ; studied in Paris and Stutt- gart in 1834 ; went to America in 1838, and has since lived in New York, making fre- quent visits for study to Venice, Rome, Florence, and Paris. Elected X.A. in 1832. Works : Asleep in Prayer (1801)) ; Old Mill at Greenwich, Conn. (1870) ; Blind Nydia, Jephthah's Daughter (1871) ; Cinderella, Cleopatra (1875) ; Landing of Market-Boat at Capri (1870); Mary Stuart distributing (lifts, Maid of Saragossa, R. L. Stuart Col- lection, New York ; Country Girl, Museum, ib.; Fresh Cherries, Neapolitan Fisher Fam- ily (1878); Romeo and Juliet (1882). Tuck- erman, 434. LANGE, JAN. See I'xu-khorxt. LANGK, JULIUS, born in Darmstadt, Aug. 17, 1817, died in Munich, June 25, 1878. Landscape painter, pupil of the Mu- nich Academy in 1834, then from 1835 of Schirmer in Diisseldorf. In 1840 he was attracted to Munich again by Rottmann, and soon became a favourite for his moun- tain landscapes. In 1854 he visited Upper Italy, where he painted studies for the Ven- ice Academy and two large pictures for the Milan Academy, and was made a member of both institutions. Numerous orders from King Max induced him to return to Bavaria in 1858. He was appointed court- painter by Louis H. in 1867. Works : Vil- lage in Forest (1840) ; Wood in Evening Light ; View in the Ramsau ; Morning on the Alp (1848); Partenkirchen (1858); Land- scape in North Italy (1860), Darmstadt Mu- seum ; Castle Kolovrat in Bohemia, Stutt- gart Museum ; View near Dachau (1860) ; Morning Landscape ; Zugspitze ; Part of Gosau Lake (2, 1865), View near Parten- kirchen (1871), New Pinakothek, Munich ; Seven Idyls from Amper, Foring on the Isar (1H74). Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 644 ; Kuiist- Chronik, xiii. 087 ; Reber, ii. 200 ; Reguet, ii. 1. LANGE-PIER. See Aerlzen. LANGEXDYCK, DIRK, born in Rotter- dam, March 8, 1748, died there, Dec. 15, 1805. Painter of battles and marine pieces, pupil of D. A. Bisschop. His pictures are rich in composition, of striking effect, and well drawn. Works : A Camp, Cavalry Fight, Wounded General, Rotterdam Muse- um. Immerzeel, ii. 156 ; Kramm, iii. 045. LANGENHOFFEL, JOHANN FRIED- RICH, born at Diisseldorf in 1750, died in Vienna, Dec. 31, 1807. History and portrait painter, pupil of Diisseldorf Academy ; be- came court-painter at Mannheim in 1782, and afterwards director of the gallery in Vi- enna. Works : Rape of the Sabines (1783) ; Venus bringing Cupid to Bion, Homer ; Calliope with Homer, Mannheim Gallery ; Dancing Bacchantes (1706), Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus, Dessau Gallery ; Portrait of Queen Augusta Wilhelmiua of Bavaria, Schleissheim Gallery. Wurzbach, xiv. 107 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, xiv. 316. LANGENMANTEL, LUDWIG VON, born on the Michaelsberg, near Kelheim, April 4, 1854. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy and of Piloty ; instructed 1 in 1875 the Princess of Anhalt-Dessau. Medal in Munich in 1876. Works: Capt- ure of the Chemist Lavoisier in 1704, Miin- ster Gallery ; Three Pictures with Amor- ettes, Savonarola's Sermon against Prodi- gality (1870) Muller, 310; Leixner, D. mod. K., ii. 75.