JANSSEXS Crefelil, Bremen, Erfurt, and in the National Gallery of Berlin. In 1877 lie became pro- fessor, and in 1880 director, of the Diissel- dorf Academy. Medals : Ddaseldorf, 1880 ; Vienna, 1882 ; Munich, 188:5. Member of Berlin Academy, 1885. Works : Peter's Denial (18(j8) ; Seven Scenes from History of Arminius the Cheruskian (186!)-73), City Hall, Crefeld ; Foundation of Riga (187'2), Exchange, Bremen ; Prayer of the Swiss before Battle of Sempach (1874) ; Portrait of Fieldmarshal Herwarth vou Bitteufcld (1883), Twelve Scenes from Mytli of Prome- theus (fresco), National (lallery, Berlin ; Battle at Fehrbellin (fresco), Arsenal, ib. ; C'yclc from History of Erfurt, City Hall, Erfurt ; Cycle of Frieze Paintings (1885), Aula, Diisseldorf Academy. Jordan (1885), ii. 108 ; Kunst-Clironik, vi. 15!> ; vii. 'JlHi ; ix. 613 ; xii. 4118 ; Miiller, 280. JANSSENS or JANSON, COKNEL1S. See 1 'I'nlen. JAN'SSKNS, H. (Hieronyimis), born at Antwerp, baptized Oct. 1, 1624, died there, summer 16113. Flemish school ; genre painter, pupil of Christoffel Jacob van der Lamen ; master of the guild in 1641. The pictures by this artist were formerly attrib- uted to Victor Honoro Janssens, who was not born until l(!l!4. The subjects are taken from Flemish court life of the times, and are treated in an original, truthful, retined manner ; drawing correct, colouring excel- lent. Works : La Main Chaude, Louvre (attributed to Victor Honore) ; Ball at Court (1058), Lille Museum ; Trictrac (165'J), La Main Chaude (1660), M. Le Brim Dalbanne, Paris ; Prince of Orange (1663), Misses Gio- bens, Antwerp ; Ladies and Gentlemen es- corting Married Couple to Travelling Coach, Theodor van Lcrius, ib. ; Women lighting about a Pair of Trousers, Ghent Museum ; Assembly of Noblemen before a Palace (1G72), Dunkirk Museum. Gaz. des B. Arts (18G5), xviii. 524 ; Rooses (Kcber), 384 ; Van den Branden, 1024. JANSSENS, VICTOR HONOHE, born in Brussels in 1664, died there in 1731). Flem- ish school ; history painter, pupil of Lance- lot Voldera, became master in 168'.), then spent four years at the court of the Duke of Holstein, who sent him to Home, where ho stayed eleven years, imitating Albani and allied in friendship with Tempesta, in W!IOM- landscapes he supplied the figures. Re- turned to Brussels, and executed many altar- pieces ; in 1718 went to Vienna as court- painter to the Emperor Charles VI., and thence to London in 17'Jl. ]lis small his- torical pictures are superior to his large works. Works : Apparition of the Virgin, St. Charles BoiTomeo, Sacrifice of .-Eneas, Dido building Cartilage, Brussels Museum ; Assembly of the Gods, Allegory of Events of 1708, City Hall, , , ib.; St. Koch cur- I/ / ing the Diseased, V fl St. Nicholas, ib. ; Venus and Adonis, Copenhagen Gallery. Ch. Blanc, Kcole llaiuande; Immerzeel, ii. 7'.). JANSSENS VAN NTYSSKN, A15H.V- HAM, born in Antwerp in 1575, died there, buried Jan. 25, 1632. Flemish school ; painter of religious subjects and allegories, pupil of Jan Snellinck, and studied in Italy ; in 1601 admitted to the guild, its dean in 1606--7. After Rubens, he was one of tho most famous of the great Flemish painters of the 17th century. According to recent documentary discoveries tho accounts of his enmity against Rubens, and tho misery into which ho fell, are devoid of truth. Works : Madonna, Adoration of Magi, River God of the Scheldt, Museum, Antwerp ; Entoml>- ment, Madonna ami Saints, Carmelites, ib. ; The Four Fathers of the Church, Cathedral, ib.; St. Luke painting the Virgin, St. Kom- bold's, Mechlin ; Adoration of the Shep- herds, Bruges Cathedral ; Descent from the Cross. Ecce Homo, St. Bavon's, Ghent; Miraculous Draught of Fishes, St. Peter's, il>. ; Allegory on Age, Brussels Museum ; Descent from Cross, St. Bavon's Church, Ghent ; Meleager and Atalanta, Vertumnus and Pomona, Berlin Museum ; Venus and Adonis, Vienna Museum ; Tobias and the
