and in 1802 to Florence and Rome; returned to Copenhagen in 1810, and became member of the Academy in 1814; was in Rome again in 1816-19, and in 1818 became professor at Copenhagen Academy. Painted also portraits and small landscapes. Officer of Order of Danebrog. Works: Andromache beside Hector's Body (1807), Copenhagen Gallery; The Greeks leaving Troy (1810); Habor's and Alger's Return from Battle (1814); Apparition of Christ (1815); Resurrection (1818); Five Scenes from Introduction of Christianity in the North, Christiansborg Palace; The Three Nornes (1844), Copenhagen Gallery.—Weilbach, 424.
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LUNDBYE, JOHAN THOMAS, born in
Copenhagen, Sept. 1,
1818, died near Bested,
April 26, 1848.
Animal painter, pupil
of Copenhagen Academy,
but studied chiefly
from nature; went
to Italy in 1845, entered
the Danish army
as a volunteer in 1848,
and was killed only a week after, in the
skirmish near Bested. Works: Coast View
on Ise Fjord, Open Country in Zeeland
(1842), Interior of Cow Stable (1844), Oxen
in the Campagna, Landscape with Sheep
(1845), View in Zeeland, Horse Study,
Coast View (1847), Gallery, Copenhagen;
Old Grave in Zeeland, Thorwaldsen Museum,
ib.—Sig. Müller, 227; Weilbach, 432.
LUNDENS, GERRIT, flourished about
1652-73. Dutch school; genre painter in
the manner of Metzu. Works: Fiddler in
Peasant's Room (1656), Dresden Museum;
Surgical Operation, Düsseldorf Academy;
do., Hausmann Collection, Herrenhausen,
Hanover; do. (1652), Friesen sale, Cologne,
March, 1885; Cake-baker, School-room
(both attributed?), Amsterdam Museum.—Kramm,
iv. 1022; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 581;
xx. 505; Nederlandsche Kunstbode (1881),
93.
LUNDGREN, EGRONT SELLIF, born
in Stockholm, Dec. 18, 1815, died there,
Dec. 12, 1875. Genre painter, pupil of
Stockholm Academy, and in Paris of Cogniet;
visited Switzerland and Italy in 1844,
Spain in 1849, working especially in Seville
until 1852, when he went to England and
there painted illustrations to Shakespeare
and court festivals for Queen Victoria; went
to India in 1858, visited Sweden and Norway
in 1860-61, Egypt, Spain, and England
in 1862, Italy in 1865, England in 1871;
mostly in Sweden since 1867. Works: Feast
of Corpus Domini in Rome, Royal Palace,
Stockholm; S. Vitale in Ravenna, Library
of Siena, Stockholm Museum; Pilgrim's
Festival in Valencia; The Forsaken Ones.—Illustr.
Zeitg. (1876), ii. 337; Kunst-Chronik,
xi. 243.
LUNDH, HENRIK TEODOR, born in
Stockholm, Oct. 3, 1812. History painter,
pupil of his uncle, Westin, and of Stockholm
Academy; went to Paris in 1843, and
at the outbreak of the revolution returned
to Stockholm, where he was director of the
Museum in 1851-58. Works: Iris visiting
the God of Sleep; Reception of Hercules
in Olympus; Eve at the Death of Abel;
Rebecca at the Well; Landing of Gustavus
Adolphus in Germany; Entry of Gustavus
Adolphus into Augsburg; Gustavus Adolphus
before Battle of Breitenfeld.—Müller,
344.
LUNTESCHÜTZ, JULES, born at Besançon,
in 1822. Genre and history painter,
pupil of Philipp Veit at the Städel Institute
in Frankfort, whither he returned in 1845,
having meanwhile studied under Alaux in
Paris. Usually paints religious pictures.
L. of Honour, 1866. Works: Portrait of
Schopenhauer, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg;
A Drop of Venus's Blood tinting the
Roses (1855).
LUPINO. See Luini.
LUTE PLAYER, Michelangelo da Caravaggio,
Hermitage, St. Petersburg. A young
man in a white shirt, and with a fillet about
his head, sits singing to the accompaniment