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(1885), lxxi. 812.



OTTESEN, OTTO DIDRIK, born at Broager, Sönderjylland, April 3, 1816. Flower and fruit painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy of which he became a member in 1866; visited Holland, France, Switzerland, and Italy. Professor since 1874. Works: Fruits and Flowers (1842); Grapes on Silver Tray (1843); Roses and Strawberries (1844), Fruit-*pieces (1851, 1852, 1855), Springtime in the Woods (1862), Rose-tree (1864), Vase with Flowers (1869), Gallery, Copenhagen; Still-Life (1844), Thorvaldsen Museum, ib.—Sig. Müller, 272; Weilbach, 525.


OTTO, HEINRICH, born in Vienna in 1832. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Steinfeld, then of Rahl; visited Tyrol and North Italy, and in 1863-64 Rome and Naples. Works: Tasso reading his Poem at Villa d'Este (1865); Battle-field of Aspern (1866); Grove of Diana; View on Isle of Capri; Triumph of Bacchus; Four Landscapes in fresco (1867), Kursalon, Vienna.—Wurzbach, xxi. 135.


OTTO, JOHANNES SAMUEL, born at Unruhstadt, Posen, Jan. 17, 1798, died in Berlin, Feb. 21, 1878. Portrait and landscape painter, pupil of Berlin Academy. Professor in 1844. Works: Portrait of Sculptor Kiss (1875), National Gallery, Berlin; King Frederic William IV. (several); Winter Landscapes.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1844), 436; D. Kunstbl. (1850), 351; (1852), 206; (1853), 55; (1854), 258; Jordan (1885), ii. 164.


OTTO, KARL, born at Osterode, Hartz Mountains, in 1830. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Piloty; visited afterwards Holland, Belgium, and France. Works: Huss in Prison; Last Way of Mary Stuart; Hans Sachs; First Christians in Rome; At the Grave of the Fallen Soldier; Homage to Marie Antoinette at Versailles (1877), Darmstadt Museum; Procession of Bacchus; The Hermits; Belshazzar's Banquet, Maximilianeum, Munich; Death of Elector Max, Taking of General Horn, National Museum, ib.—Müller, 403.


OUDENROGGE, JOHANNES DIRCKSZ, born at Leyden, died at Haarlem in 1653. Dutch school; genre painter in the manner of the Ostades, to whom probably some of his works are attributed in public galleries; visited France in 1651. Works: Weaver's Workshop (1652), Amsterdam Museum; Tavern Interior (? attributed to A. van Ostade), Brunswick Museum; Winter Landscape with Skaters (attributed to Isaak van Ostade), Old Pinakothek, Munich.—Kramm, iv. 1237; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 337.



OUDRY, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Paris, March 17, 1686, died at Beauvais, April 30, 1755. French school; history, portrait, flower, and animal painter, pupil of his father Jacques and of Michel Serre and Largillière. At first painted historical subjects, and portraits, then devoted himself to painting animals, especially dogs; became court painter to Louis XV., superintendent of the Beauvais factory, later of the Gobelins. Member of Academy, 1717; professor, 1743. Works: Mitte and Turlu (greyhounds of Louis XV., 1725), Mignonne and Sylvia (1728), Blanche, Wolf Hunt (1746), Dog guarding Game (1747), Cock Fight (1749), A Farm (1750), Dog and Bowl (1751), Musical Instruments and Sword (1734), Louvre; Hunting Piece, Marly; Gredinet, Petite-Fille and Charlotte, Lise, Landscape, Fontainebleau Gallery; Abun-