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Works: St. Anthony of Padua caressing Infant Jesus, Dresden Gallery; Massacre of Innocents, S. Sebastiano, Milan.


DANEDI, STEFANO, called Montalto, born at Treviglio in 1608, died at Milan in 1689. Bolognese school; brother of Giuseppe D.; history painter, pupil of Morazzone. Painted many works for churches in Milan. His Martyrdom of St. Justina, in S. Maria in Pedone, is one of his best.



DANHAUSER, JOSEF, born in Vienna, Aug. 18, 1805, died there, May 4, 1845. History and genre painter, son of a cabinet-maker. After successfully devoting himself to the violin, he studied in the Vienna Academy under Peter Krafft, and in 1826 went to Venice on invitation of the poet Ladislas Pyrker, from whose Rudolph of Hapsburg he had painted several pictures with success. Discouraged by the works of Titian and Veronese, he turned from history to genre for a time, but returned to the former at a later period and gained the great prize for an historical picture in 1836. After the death of his father, in 1829, he for some years carried on the cabinet business at Vienna, gaining repute as a designer of artistic furniture. He was corrector at the Academy from 1838, then professor in 1840-42, when he resigned in consequence of critical disputes. He then travelled in North Germany, Holland, and Belgium, and might have surpassed his former efforts had not the death of his younger brother brought on a fit of melancholia, which hastened his death. Works: Abraham casting off Hagar, Scholar's Room in Painter's Studio (1828), Comic Scene in a Studio (1829), Opening the Will (1839), Vienna Museum; Pegasus in the Yoke (1830); New Year Congratulations (1831); Ottaker's Death (1832); Girl confessing her Fall (1834); Martyrdom of St. John (1835); Hagar and Ishmael, Glutton (1836), Oculist (1837); Klostersuppe, Chess, Opening of the Will, The Widow's Penny (1839); Liszt at the Piano, Comfort to the Oppressed, Woman, Wine, and Song, Release from Seizure (1840); Little Painter, Little Virtuoso, Child and its World, Village Politician (1844); Wine Taster, Old Mother Asleep (1845); Prayer of Carthusians at Table, Bagpiper, Archæologist, Rest after Work (last picture).—Allgem. d. Biogr., iv. 726; Andresen, iv. 201; Wurzbach, iii. 153.


DANIEL, Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Rome; fresco on ceiling.


DANIEL IN LIONS' DEN, Rubens, Duke of Hamilton; canvas, H. 7 ft. 6 in. × 10 ft. 10 in. Daniel, nearly nude, seated with clasped hands, looking beseechingly up-*ward; around him nine lions and lionesses, life-size, in varied actions. One of the few great pictures by Rubens painted entirely by his own hand. Presented by Sir Dudley Carleton to Charles I. Hamilton Palace sale (1882), £5,145, to C. B. Denison; Denison sale (1884), £2,000, to Duke of Hamilton. Engraved by Blooteling, Van der Leuw, Lamb; mezzo, J. Ward; etched by Street.—Waagen, Art Treasures, iii. 296; Smith, xi. 162; Cat. Ham. Pal. sale, 21; Acad., xxi. 456.


DANIELE DA VOLTERRA. See Volterra.


DANIELL, THOMAS, born at Kingston-on-Thames in 1749, died at Kensington, March 19, 1840. Son of an innkeeper and apprentice to a painter of heraldry; student at Royal Academy in 1773, began to exhibit in 1774, became A.R.A. in 1796, and R.A. in 1799. Went to the East in 1784 with his nephew William and travelled ten years in India, making many remarkable sketches. After this his pictures were chiefly Oriental views and scenes, such as tiger hunts and other sports. He published several books of Eastern scenery. His View on the Nullah is in the National Gallery. His nephews William (1769-1837, R.A. 1822) and