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.
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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-