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xviii. 754.


LISETTE OF BERANGER, Hugues Merle, Mrs. Paran Stevens, New York; canvas, H. 2 ft. × 3 ft. Lisette recounting the poet's virtues, after his decease, to a company of blooming grisettes. Replica, Mrs. W. H. Aspinwall, New York.


LISSE, DIEDERICK (Dirck) VAN DER, died at The Hague in 1669. Dutch school; history and landscape painter, pupil of Poelenburg; entered the guild at The Hague in 1644, was one of the founders of the new guild Pictura there in 1656, and Burgomaster in 1660-69. Works: Landscape with Ruins and Bathers(?), Brunswick Museum; Landscape with Diana and Nymphs (?, last two attributed to Jan van der Lys), Copenhagen Gallery; Pan and Companions dancing in a Landscape, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Sleeping Nymph, Schleissheim Gallery; Lot and his Daughters, Landscape with Herd and Herdsmen, two other landscapes, Schwerin Gallery; others in Berlin Museum (2) and Mannheim Gallery.—Archief v. ned. K., iv. 78, 82, 127, 132; Bode, Studien, 326; Nederlandsche Kunstbode (1881), iii. 196; Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 747; Schlie, 354.


LITSCHAUER, KARL JOSEF, born in Vienna, March 1, 1830, died in Düsseldorf, Aug. 8, 1871. Genre painter, pupil of Vienna Academy and of Robert Waldmüller, then of Düsseldorf Academy and of Tidemand; settled in Düsseldorf; great gold medal and honorary member of Amsterdam Academy in 1864. Works: Flight from the Convent; Scene from Thirty Years' War; Cheap Model; Humorous Studio Scene, Austrian Art Union, Vienna; Ambuscade (1857); Morning and Night (1865), In the Laboratory; Counterfeiters, Wiesbaden Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 783; Blanckarts, 50; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 199; Wurzbach, xv. 279.


LIVERSEEGE, HENRY, born in Manchester in 1803, died there, Jan. 30, 1832. Began by painting portraits at cheap rates, but in 1827 exhibited at Manchester several subject pieces which brought him into notice. Went to London and exhibited at the Academy in 1828, his Wildrake presenting Colonel Everard's Challenge to Charles II., and, in 1830, his Black Dwarf. Other works: Grave-Diggers, Hamlet and his Mother, Catherine Seyton.—Redgrave; Recollections of Liverseege (London, 1832-35).


LIX, FRÉDÉRIC THÉODORE, born at Strasburg, Dec. 18, 1830. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Drölling and Biennoury. Medal, 3d class, 1880. Works: Misfortune to the Conquered (1870); Farewell to Mother Country (1872); Evening in Dalecarlia (1874); Where there is enough for two there is enough for three (1875); St. Margaret (1877); Camille Desmoulins at the Palais Royal (1880); Fatherland (1883); Andromeda (1884); At Golgotha (1885).—Bellier, i. 1050.


LLORENTE, Don BERNARDO GERMAN DE, born in Seville in 1685, died there in 1757. Spanish school; pupil of Cristobal Lopez, a painter for the India traders, and became a tolerable imitator of Murillo. Won some reputation as a painter of the Virgin as a Shepherdess, whence called El Pintor de las Pastoras. One of these is in the Madrid Museum, where it was formerly ascribed to Tobar. The Duc de Montpensier Gallery, Seville, has a small St. Rosalia by him.—Curtis, 347; Madrazo, 434; Washburn, 173.


LLOYD, THOMAS, born in England; contemporary. Landscape painter, associate of Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1878. Works: A Pastoral, Nearly Home (1877); Taking Home the Cow and Calf, Primrose Gatherers, Spring (1880); Milk for the Calves, Blackberry Gatherers, Approach of Winter (1881); Sons of the Soil, Hurt (1882); Great Excitement (1883); A Curious Fish, Golden Grain (1884).


LOBRICHON, TIMOLÉON, born at Cornod (Jura), April 26, 1831; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Picot. Medal in 1868; 2d class, 1882; L. of Hon-