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Alcantara, with cloak and stiff linen collar; folded letter in right hand. Purchased with Modena Gallery in 1746. Repetitions with changes: Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Marquis of Lansdowne, London; Francis Clare Ford, London. Engraved with variations by H. Panneels; P. Pontius; Cor. Gallæus; F. Navarro; M. Merian; P. de Jode; Moncornet; L. Noseret.—Curtis, 72.

By Velasquez, Mrs. Henry Huth, Wykehurst, Surrey, England; canvas, H. 6 ft. 9 in. × 3 ft. 7 in. Standing, full-length, with bare head, wearing an embroidered black dress, with green cross of Alcantara, and a short cloak; left hand on his sword; right, holding a wand, rests on a table; red drapery in background. Repetitions: Robert S. Holford, London; Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Curtis, 71; London Illust. News, May 21, 1853.

By Velasquez, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 10 ft. 3 in. × 7 ft. 10 in. On a chestnut horse galloping to left; dress, a steel cuirass, sombrero, crimson scarf, and long boots; points with a baton to a battle raging in background. Painted about 1640; passed from house of Guzman to the Marquis de la Ensenada, from whom purchased by Charles III. Etched by F. Goya; B. Maura. Lithographed by J. Jollivet; E. C. Cos. Repetition (white horse), Earl of Elgin, Broom Hall, Fife, Scotland. Sketches: Duc de Montpensier, Seville; Sir Richard Wallace, London.—Palomino, iii. 332; Gaz. des B. Arts (1880), xxi. 529; Gal. Esp.; Curtis, 70; Madrazo, 611.

OLIVER, ISAAC, born in 1556, died in London about 1617. Pupil of Nicholas Hilliard and of Zucchero; attained eminence as a miniature painter, his works being compared to those of Holbein. He painted Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, Prince Henry, Ben Jonson, a full-length of Sir Philip Sidney (Windsor Castle), and other noted persons; also, in oil, portraits of himself and family. His son and pupil Peter (1601-60) surpassed him in his miniatures, many of which are in old collections.—Redgrave.

OLIVIÉ, LÉON, born at Narbonne (Aude); contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Coedès and Cogniet. Medal, 3d class, 1876. Studio in Paris. Works: Woman Singing, The Brother Tailor, Monk Praying (1874); The Question, A Fisherman of the Seine (1876); Brutus's Oath over the Body of Lucretia (1878); Arab Merchant in Paris (1881); Palm Sunday in Étretat (1883); New-Born, Under the Sideboard (1884); A Duty (1885); Falstaff and Doll Tear-Sheet, W. B. Bement, Philadelphia.

OLIVIER, (JOHANN HEINRICH) FERDINAND VON, born at Dessau, April 1, 1785, died in Munich, Feb. 11, 1841. History and landscape painter, pupil of K. W. Kolbe and Haldenwang, then in Dresden of Jakob Mechau; went in 1807 to Paris, in 1811 to Vienna, having returned to Dessau, in 1810, and in 1833 became professor and secretary-general at Munich Academy. Works: Pilgrims' Procession thro' the Woods (1814), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Franciscan Monastery near Salzburg (1826), Leipsic Museum; Equestrian Portrait of Napoleon, Dessau; Baptism of Christ, Last Supper, Gothic Church Wörlitz; The Scouts with the Grapes of Canaan, Landscape (master-piece), Basle Museum; Replica of latter (1840), Raczynski Gallery, Berlin. His brother Heinrich (born in 1783, died in Berlin, March 3, 1848), followed the same course of study, accompanied him to Paris, and with him painted the portrait of Napoleon, and several historical pictures for the Duke of Anhalt, among which are the two in the Gothic Church at Wörlitz.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1839), 17; Hagen, i. 328; Nagler, x. 340; 344; N. Necrol. d. D. (1841), 204; Söltl, 249.