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many pastel drawings, and was a great collector of drawings and engravings. Among his works are: Moses saved from the Waters, Uffizi; Penitent Magdalen, Magdalen in Meditation, Louvre; The Virgin Reading, Cassel Gallery; Moses receiving the Tablets on Mount Sinai, Darmstadt Museum; Head of Christ, Head of the Virgin (1722), Dresden Museum; St. Borromeo giving Extreme Unction to the Plague-stricken (1712), Schleissheim Gallery; Holy Family with St. John and Elizabeth, Boy playing the Flute, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; James Stuart, Hampton Court; Vestment of S. Ranieri, Pisa Cathedral.—Lanzi, i. 250, 498; Ch. Blanc, École florentine.


LÜTKE, PETER LUDWIG, born in Berlin, March 4, 1759, died there, May 19, 1831. Landscape painter, pupil in Rome of Philip Hackert; visited Switzerland, Naples, and Sicily, returned to Berlin in 1787, became honorary member of the Academy, and in 1789 professor and senator. Works: Castle of Baiæ, National Gallery, Berlin; Italian and German Landscapes in the royal palaces at Berlin and Potsdam.—N. Necr. d. D. (1831), 435.


LUTTEROTH, ASCAN, born in Hamburg in 1842. Landscape painter, pupil in Geneva of Calame, then in Düsseldorf of Oswald Achenbach; spent three years in Rome, went to Berlin in 1871, revisited Italy several times, and settled in Hamburg in 1877. Works: Views of Capri; Spring at Villa Albani; Lake of Nemi; Summer at the Riviera; Autumn about Naples; Winter in the Campagna; Punta di Sorrento; Villa Doria; Wood Interior.—Müller, 344.


LÜTTGENDORFF, FERDINAND VON, Baron, born in Würzburg, Jan. 24, 1785, died there, April 28, 1858. History and portrait painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Seidel and Hauber, and of Vienna Academy in 1805-9; lectured on art at Erlangen University in 1812, lived then in Prague, Vienna, and Presburg, where he painted thirteen large altar-pieces for different churches in Hungary; visited Munich in 1840, and returned to his native city. Works: Portrait of General Moreau; 125 portraits of Legates to Hungarian Diet.—Nagler, Mon., i. 348; Wurzbach, xvi. 142.


LUYCX (Leux), FRANS, born at Antwerp, baptized April 17, 1604, died at Prague after 1652. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Remakel Sina (1618), then of Rubens; master of the guild in 1620; went to Italy and painted in Rome portraits and allegories, and after his return home was called to Prague by Emperor Ferdinand III., who made him court-painter and ennobled him, whence his name appears also as Leux de (or von) Leuxenstein. Visited Antwerp in 1652, but returned to Austria in the same year. Works: Allegory on Vanity, Portraits of Archduke Leopold William, Infant Cardinal Charles Ferdinand, and a Lady of Distinction, Museum, Vienna; Christ appearing to the Holy Women, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Portrait of Archduke William, Stockholm Museum.—Engerth, Belvedere Galerie, ii. 235; Van den Branden, 804.


LUZZI, PIETRO. See Morto da Feltre.


LYMAN, JOSEPH, JR., born in Ravenna, Ohio; contemporary. Landscape and marine painter, studied in Europe in 1864-66; afterwards pupil of J. H. Dolph and Samuel Colman, New York. Exhibited in National Academy first in 1876. Elected A.N.A. in 1886. Studio in New York. Works: Summer Night, Evening (1880); Percé Rock—Gulf of St. Lawrence (1881); Moonlight at Sunset, On the Maine Coast (1882); Waiting for the Tide (1883); Street in St. Augustine—Florida, View in do. (1884); Under her own Fig Tree (1885).


LYS, JAN VAN DER, born in Breda in 1600, died in Rotterdam in 1657. Dutch school; history and landscape painter, pu-