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  • pieces for churches, and assisted in 1845-52

in the frescos in the royal chapel, Berlin. Member of Academy in 1838, professor in 1840, vice-director in 1861-75. Member also of Vienna Academy. Works: St. Paul (1825); Invention of Painting (1832), Sacristan with Host (1837), National Gallery, Berlin; The Parcæ, Woman and Child, Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Initiation of Nun; Shelter at the Altar, Charitable Monk (1836); Holy Water, Roman Woman and Child.—Brockhaus, iv. 769; Müller, 122; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 28.


DAEL, JAN FRANS VAN, born in Antwerp, May 27, 1764, died in Paris, March 20, 1840. Flemish school; flower and fruit painter, pupil of the Antwerp Academy; went, in 1786, to Paris and received many orders from the Empresses Josephine and Marie Louise, the Emperor Napoleon, and Louis XVIII. and Charles X. Two gold medals, and in 1825 Legion of Honour. Works: La Croisée; Three Flower Pieces (1816, 1819, 1823), Louvre; Bouquet of Roses (1811), Rothan Gallery, Paris; Tuberoses, Basket of Flowers, Lyons Museum; Flora's Offering (1807), Spring Flowers (1808), two others, Leuchtenberg Gallery.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, iv. 628; Michiel, x. 574.


DAFFINGER, MORIZ MICHAEL, born in Vienna, Jan. 25, 1790, died there, Aug. 22, 1849. Portrait painter; first apprenticed in the imperial porcelain factory, he entered the Vienna Academy under Füger, and then gave himself up to the painting of miniature portraits, chiefly on ivory, which he carried to great perfection under the influence of Lawrence, who was in Vienna during the Congress of 1815. Works: Portraits of Duc de Reichstadt, Archduchess Sophie and Children, in possession of Imperial family; Prince Metternich and Family; Famous Contemporaries, in possession of Metternich family; Fauna Austriaca, Vienna Academy.—Allgem. d. Biogr., iv. 689; Andresen, iv. 91; Brockhaus, iv. 769; Wurzbach, iii. 127.


DAGNAN, ISIDORE, born in Marseilles in 1794, died in Paris, Nov. 8, 1873. Landscape painter; painted chiefly views of Southern France, Italy, and Switzerland. Medals: 2d class, 1822; 1st class, 1831; L. of Honour, 1836. Works: Roman Girls listening to a Shepherd (1819); Lake of Geneva (1822), Grand Trianon; Lausanne (1822), Fontainebleau; View in Dauphiné (1827), ib.; View of Paris (1831); Sea View at Marseilles (1833), formerly in Luxembourg; View of Dinan (1836); Valley of Lauterbrunnen (1841); Bridge of Nice (1843); View of Avignon (1845), Ministry of Interior; Lake of Geneva, Banks of Aar, Old Oak at Pharamond (1857); Forest and River, Ravine at Montreux, Road to Battigny (1859); Beech Woods on Banks of Stream, Road from Paris to Fontainebleau (1864); Forest, Petrarch's House (1865); Road from Pierrefonds to Battigny, Baden-Baden (1866); Queen Blanche's Oak at Fontainebleau, New Road in the Solle Valley (1869); Cross-Road from Battigny to Pierrefonds, Banks of the Sorgue at Vaucluse (1870).—Larousse.


DAGNAN-BOUVERET, PASCAL ADOLPHE JEAN, born in Paris. Contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of J. L. Gérôme. Medals: 3d class, 1878; 1st class, 1880. Works: Infant Bacchus, Orpheus and Bacchantes (1877); Burial of Manon Lescaut (1878; L. P. Morton sale, New York, 1881); Wedding Party at a Photographer's (1879); An Accident (1880), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Blessing a Couple before Marriage (1882); Lover's Quarrel, F. B. Warren, Philadelphia; Hamlet and the Grave Diggers (1884); Horses at Watering-Trough, Madonna (1885).


DAHL, HANS, born at Hardanger, Norway, Feb. 19, 1849. Landscape and genre painter, pupil of the Carlsruhe art-school,