WAVE Francis Joseph. Works: Morning after Bat- tle of Hastings (1868) ; Mary of Burgundy interceding for her Min- isters (1870), Liege Mu- seum ; Madness of Hugh van der Goes (1871), Museum, Brussels; Mary of Burgundy's Oath to respect Privileges of the Commons (1876, origi- nal owned by John G. Johnson, Philadelphia), Citizens of Brussels de- manding Constitution of Duke John IV., City Hall, ib.; Scene in Cairo ; Burial of a Monk. Miiller, 547. WAVE, THE (La vague), Gustave Cour- bet, Luxembourg Museum ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 9 in. x 5 ft. 3 in. A strip of sandy, pebbly beach in foreground, with two fishing-boats drawn up at left ; in background, the sea, with a single sail in the offing and a long crested wave rolling inward and about to break on the shore. Salon, 1870. WAY, A. J. H., born in Washington, D. C., in 1826. Still-life painter, pupil of J. P. Frankenstein in Cincinnati, of Alfred Miiller in Baltimore, and of Drolling in Paris (1850). Entered the Academy at Flor- ence in 1851. After four years' absence in Europe, he opened a studio in Baltimore, and became vice-president of the Maryland Academy, which he was instrumental in founding. Exhibits at the National Acad- emy, New York. Works : Christmas Morn- ing (1870) ; Purity, Flora and Pomona, Dr. Zollicoffer, Baltimore ; Prince Albert Grapes (1874), W. T. Walters, ib.; Black Grapes, White Grapes, E. P. C. Lewis ; Flamme de Tokay Grapes California (1880); Pomona's Offering (1881) ; Ked Head Duck (1882) ; Cherries, Oysters, and Ale (1883); Gros Colmo Grapes, Canvas-Back Ducks (1884) ; Under the Vines (1885). WEBER, ADOLPHE, born at Boulay (Lorraine), March 4, 1842. History and portrait painter, pupil of Laurent Marechal, of Cogniet, and of Cabanel. Medal, 1867. Works : Child's Slumber (1866) ; Awaken- ing of Psyche (1867), Orleans Museum ; Venus carried by Zephyr to Cyprus (1868) ; Echo and Narcissus (1869), Metz Museum ; Mystical Marriage of St. Catharine (1870) ; Grandmother, Ischys and Coronis Victims of Apollo's Jealousy (1872) ; Cupid and Psyche (1880) ; In the Country (1881) ; Psyche whipped by Order of Venus (1884) ; Temptation (1885) ; Legend of St. Herman of Steinfeld (1886). WEBEE, AUGUST, born in Frankfort, Jan. 10, 1817, died in DUsseldorf, Sept. 9, 1873. Landscape painter, pupil of Rosen- kranz, then in Darmstadt of Schilbach, with whom he visited Switzerland ; then studied two years at the Stiidel Institute in Frank- fort, and one year at the Dilsseldorf Acad- emy. Cultivated ideal landscape painting and formed many pupils at Dilsseldorf, where he settled ; made professor by King of Prussia. Works : Westphalian Land- scape (1868), National Gallery, Berlin ; Ital- ian do. (1849), Evening do. (1851), Ravene Gallery, ib. ; do., Diisseldorf Gallery ; others in Museums of Cologne, Leipsic, Konigs- berg (1855), and Stettin. Blanckarts, 67 ; Cat. Cologne Mus., 232 ; Jordan (1885), ii. 238 ; Wolfg. Miiller, Dusseldf. K., 327. WEBER, OTTO, born in Berlin, killed in the war of 1870. Genre, landscape, and animal painter, pupil in Berlin of Steffeck, and in Paris of Couture ; settled in Milan. Medals : Paris, 1864, 1869 ; Utrecht, 1866. Works : Wedding in Brittany (1864) ; On the Bleachery ; Colts ; First Snow on the Alp (1866) ; In Fontainebleau Forest ; Cat- tle Grazing ; The Ploughing, Under the Chestnut Trees (1867) ; Deer Quarry, Ren- tree du Bois de Chauffage (1868) ; Ox-Team (1869) ; Springtime, Annunziata (1870) ; Hay Gatherers, Fete in Brittany, Mr. Wal- ters, Baltimore. Hamerton, Painting in France. WEBER, PAUL, born in Darmstadt in 1823. Landscape painter, pupil of Lucas, and in Frankfort of the Stiidel Institute ; went to Munich, where he studied chiefly 414
