536; Passavant, ii. 276; Springer (Dohme 2ii.), 251; Art Journal (1882), 1.
DONNER, OTTO, born in Frankfort,
May 10, 1828. History painter, pupil of
the Städel Institute until 1847, then in
Paris of Delaroche, and in Munich of
Schwind. Visited Italy in 1852, and in 1862
went again to Paris to study under Couture;
practised for some years portrait painting
there and in London; assisted in 1866 in the
painting of Schwind's frescos in the Vienna
Opera House, and was then for ten years in
Rome, where he painted genre scenes from
Italian life and the antique world; returned
to Frankfort in 1876. Works: Lützow's Men
beside Körner's Body; Satyr with Nymphs
resting after the Chase (1863); Vintage at
Ischia; Interior of Pompeiian Winter Garden;
The Forsaken, Campanian Tavern;
Evening Scene before Herculaneum Gate;
Portraits of Prince and Princess Scherbatoff,
Princess Bariatinsky, Emperor William
(1877).—Müller, 139.
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Donna Velata, Raphael (?), Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
DONZELLO, PIETRO DEL, born in
Florence in 1451, died there, Feb. 24, 1509.
Florentine school; son of Francesco d'Antonio
di Jacopo, bailiff (donzello) of the Signoria
of Florence. He and his brother Polito,
or Ippolito (born in Florence in 1455,
and apprenticed to Neri de' Bicci in 1469-71)
were companions in that painter's studio,
Florence, as late as 1480. Several panels of
doubtful authenticity in the Naples Museum,
as well as the wall paintings in the ex-refectory
of S. Maria Nuova (probably by
an Umbrian master) are attributed to them.
De' Domenici, who makes the Donzelli
Neapolitans and pupils of Colantonio del
Fiore and Andrea Solario, is unreliable.—Vasari,
ed. Mil., ii. 485; Burckhardt, 613;
C. & C., N. Italy, i. 102; Ch. Blanc, École
napolitaine.
DÖPPLER, KARL EMIL, born at
Schnepfenthal, Gotha, March 8,1824. Genre
painter; devoted himself at first, from 1844,
to architectural painting, lived then for several
years in New York, as illustrator, and
returned in 1859 to study genre painting in
Munich under Piloty. In 1860-70 he was
in Weimar, as costume-draughtsman for the
theatre and teacher at the art-school, and in
1870 settled in Berlin. Works: Ambuscade
in time of Henry III; The Widow of
Sadowa; The Secret, Duchess Maria Anna
and Duke Charles of Zweibrücken, National
Museum, Munich; The Four Main Festivals
of the Year.—Brockhaus, v. 477; Müller,
140; Illustr. Zeitg. (1870), i. 176.
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DORÉ, GUSTAVE PAUL, born in Strasburg,
Jan. 6, 1833,
died in Paris, Jan.
27, 1883. History
painter and designer;
original
name Dorer,
changed by him
to French form.
Went to Paris
when fifteen years
old and began by
contributing sketches to illustrated periodicals.
Exhibited in Salon in 1848 pen-and-ink
landscape drawings, and in 1855 his first
