pageants; spent eight years (1860-68) in Hungary, the Danubian principalities, and in Paris; took part in the campaign of 1870-71. Works: Hungarian Inn (1861); Horses in the Rushes (1865); Csikos driving Horses back to the Herd (1865); Race-Course of Longchamps (1867); Hussar-Patrol, Steeple-Chase, Transportation of Horses (1868); Hungarian Market-Scene, Attack of Brigade Bredow in Battle of Vionville, Battle of Sedan (1872); Episode in Battle of Wörth (1875); Bay of Galata; Second Bavarian Army Corps crossing the Seine at Corbeil (1885); Catching Wild Horses in Hungarian Puszta, Dresden Museum.—Müller, 319.
LANG, LOUIS, born at Waldsee, Würtemberg,
March 29, 1814. Portrait and
figure painter; studied in Paris and Stuttgart
in 1834; went to America in 1838, and
has since lived in New York, making frequent
visits for study to Venice, Rome,
Florence, and Paris. Elected N.A. in 1832.
Works: Asleep in Prayer (1869); Old Mill
at Greenwich, Conn. (1870); Blind Nydia,
Jephthah's Daughter (1871); Cinderella,
Cleopatra (1875); Landing of Market-Boat
at Capri (1876); Mary Stuart distributing
Gifts, Maid of Saragossa, R. L. Stuart Collection,
New York; Country Girl, Museum,
ib.; Fresh Cherries, Neapolitan Fisher Family
(1878); Romeo and Juliet (1882).—Tuckerman,
434.
LANGE, JAN. See Bockhorst.
LANGE, JULIUS, born in Darmstadt,
Aug. 17, 1817, died in Munich, June 25,
1878. Landscape painter, pupil of the Munich
Academy in 1834, then from 1835 of
Schirmer in Düsseldorf. In 1840 he was
attracted to Munich again by Rottmann,
and soon became a favourite for his mountain
landscapes. In 1854 he visited Upper
Italy, where he painted studies for the Venice
Academy and two large pictures for the
Milan Academy, and was made a member
of both institutions. Numerous orders
from King Max induced him to return to
Bavaria in 1858. He was appointed court-painter
by Louis II. in 1867. Works: Village
in Forest (1840); Wood in Evening
Light; View in the Ramsau; Morning on
the Alp (1848); Partenkirchen (1858); Landscape
in North Italy (1860), Darmstadt Museum;
Castle Kolovrat in Bohemia, Stuttgart
Museum; View near Dachau (1869);
Morning Landscape; Zugspitze; Part of
Gosau Lake (2, 1865), View near Parten-*kirchen
(1871), New Pinakothek, Munich;
Seven Idyls from Amper, Föring on the Isar
(1874).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 644; Kunst-Chronik,
xiii. 687; Reber, ii. 290; Regnet,
ii. 1.
LANGE-PIER. See Aertzen.
LANGENDYCK, DIRK, born in Rotterdam,
March 8, 1748, died there, Dec. 15,
1805. Painter of battles and marine pieces,
pupil of D. A. Bisschop. His pictures are
rich in composition, of striking effect, and
well drawn. Works: A Camp, Cavalry
Fight, Wounded General, Rotterdam Museum.—Immerzeel,
ii. 156; Kramm, iii. 945.
LANGENHÖFFEL, JOHANN FRIEDRICH,
born at Düsseldorf in 1750, died in
Vienna, Dec. 31, 1807. History and portrait
painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy; became
court-painter at Mannheim in 1782,
and afterwards director of the gallery in Vienna.
Works: Rape of the Sabines (1783);
Venus bringing Cupid to Bion, Homer;
Calliope with Homer, Mannheim Gallery;
Dancing Bacchantes (1796), Acis, Galatea
and Polyphemus, Dessau Gallery; Portrait
of Queen Augusta Wilhelmina of Bavaria,
Schleissheim Gallery.—Wurzbach, xiv. 107;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., xiv. 316.
LANGENMANTEL, LUDWIG VON,
born on the Michaelsberg, near Kelheim,
April 4, 1854. History painter, pupil of
Munich Academy and of Piloty; instructed
in 1875 the Princess of Anhalt-Dessau.
Medal in Munich in 1876. Works: Capture
of the Chemist Lavoisier in 1794, Münster
Gallery; Three Pictures with Amorettes,
Savonarola's Sermon against Prodigality
(1879).—Müller, 319; Leixner, D.
mod. K., ii. 75.
