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ECKEESBERG schliiger, Thorwaldsen, and of royal family. Brockhaus, v. 728 ; Weilbacli, 140. ECKEBSBERG, JOHAN FREDERIK, born at Drammen, Norway, in 1822, died at Sandwik, July 13, 1870. Landscape painter, ! pupil of Diisseldorf Academy under Schir- jncr. At the age of eighteen he had been placed in a mercantile office in Christiania, but during a previous sojourn of several years in Holland having imbibed a taste for art, relinquished his post and entered the technical drawing school, where lie obtained a government stipend in 1824, and went to Diisseldorf. Returned to Christiauia in 1848, lived and sketched in Madeira in 1852-54, and founded the Academy of Painting at Christiania in 185'.*. Works : View in Saeter Valley, Christiania Gallery ; High Plain in Middle Norway; Peak of Romsdalshorn ; View in Sigdal ; Series of Views in Madeira. EDDELIEN, MATTHIAS (HEINRICH ELIAS), born at. Greifswalde, Pomcrania, Jan. 22, 1803, died Dec. 24, 1852. History painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy, and studied in Home in 1830-44. Executed paintings for Christiausborg Castle in 1831- 32, and after his return from Rome began to decorate the Chapel of Christian IV- in Roskilde Cathedral, but was paralyzed in 1852. Medals, 1827, 1831, 1833, 1837. Member of Copenhagen Academy in 1845. Works : David playing the Harp before Saul (1837) ; Christ blessing the Children (1840 and 1844) ; Staerkadder awaiting An- gantyr for Combat; Young Faun (1830), Copenhagen Gallery. Weilbach, 14!). EDELFELT, ALBERT, born at Helsing- fors, Finland; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Geromc. Lives in Paris. Medals : 3d ('lass, 1880 ; 2d class, 1882. Works : Blanche de Namur and Prince Hacquin (1877) ; Duke Charles IX. of Sweden insult- ing the Dead Body of his Enemy Fleming (1878) ; Episode in Revolt of Finland Peasants, 159G, The Cherries (1879) ; Child's Funeral in Finland (1880) ; At the Artist's (1881) ; Divine Service on Sea-shore (1882) ; Old Finland Peasant Woman (1883) ; At Sea (1884) ; The Little Ship (1885) ; Under the Beeches, Charity(SeneySale,New York, 1885). EDEMA, GERARD, born in Friesland in 1C52, died at Richmond, England, in 1700. Dutch School. Landscape painter, pupil of Allart van Everdingen, whom he imi- tated, and like whom painted chiefly views in Norway ; went to England in 1070, and thence visited Norway and Newfoundland. The figures in his landscapes were generally supplied by Thomas Wyck. Works : River Scene, Landscape, Hampton Court Gallery. EDEN, EXPULSION FROM (Genesis, iii. 24), Giuseppe Cenari, Louvre ; copper, H. 1 ft. <! in. x 1 ft. 2 in. Adam and Eve, nude, fleeing to right ; at left, the angel with a sword. Collections of Prince de Carignan, of Prince de Conti, and of Louis XVI. Engraved by Levasseur in Musee franeais ; Villerey in Filhol. Landou, vii. 10; Filhol, ii. 134 ; lli'veil, vi. 385. By Masaccio, Brancacci Chap- el, Carmine, Florence ; fresco on left wall. Adam and Eve, their loins cov- ered with fig- leaves, are fleeing before the Angel with a sword, who appears above. Kugler (East- lake), i. 222. By Tintoretto, Venice Academy; canvas. Adam and Eve driven from Paradise. Companion piece to Death of Abel; both formerly in Scuola di SS. Expulsion from Eden, Masaccio, Bran- Trillitu. Zanot- cacci Chapel, Carmine, Florence. . /,Q EDICT OF WILLLM THE TESTY,