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JOHN bought by Mr. Miles for 1,000 ; bought in at Leigh' Court sale (1884), 735. Waa- gen, Treasures, iii. 182. By Murillo, Leigh Court Collection, Som- erset, England ; canvas, H. 5 ft. 9 in. x 3 ft. 11 in. The Saint, full-length, seated in a reclining posture on a rock, with a pen in right hand and a book in left, looks up as if he heard a voice from heaven ; on his right, j an eagle. Robit sale (1801) ; Bryan sale j (1801), .525, to Henry Hope ; Hope sale (181(i), 115 10s. Etched by J. Young in Miles Gallery Catalogue. Curtis, 251 ; Bu- chanan, Memoirs, ii. 51. By Vtituxijitt'z, Sir Bartlc Frero Collection, London ; H. 4 ft. in. X 3 ft. 4 in. Seated, ' in white robe and violet drapery, writing the Apocalypse ; an eagle on his right ; above, the Virgin in a glory. Same history as CIDI- ceii/iou by Velasquez. Curtis, 12. JOHN EVANGELIST, ST.. VISION OF, Alonso Cam i, private gallery, Paris ; canvas, H. 2 ft. 11 in. x 1 ft. 5 in. One of a series of subjects from the Apocalypse. St. John is represented in one of his visions, when one of the seven angels, who were ordered to pour out the vials of wrath, takes him to a high mountain and shows him the heavenly Jerusalem which " lieth foursquare " (llcv. xxi. !)-!(;). JOHN FREDERICK, Elector of Saxony, portrait, Titian, Vienna Museum ; canvas, H. IS ft. 7- in. x 3 ft. 1 in. The Elector, clad in black, seated in an arm-chair ; has the scar of the wound received at Miihlberg on the left cheek. Painted for Charles V. in Augsburg in 1548. Copy by Teniers at Blenheim ; engraved by L. Vorstermann in Teniers Gallery. Another portrait of John Frederick in armour, carried to Spain in 1550 by Mary of Hungary, burned in Palace of Pardo in 1008. C. k C., Titian, ii. 181 ; Revue universelle des arts, iii. 140. JOHNSON, DAVID, born in New York, May 10, 1827. Landscape painter ; studied for a month with J. F. Cropsey, but other- wise self-taught. Elected an A.N.A. in 1800, and N.A. in 1861. Studio in New York. Works: Echo Lake (18G7); View at Barry- town, N. Y. (1871); Lake George, Mrs. William H. King, New York ; View at Dres- denLake George (1874), Courtlandt Pal- mer, ib. ; Scenery on the Housatonic, Brook Study Orange County (187C); Housatonic River (1877), L. A. Lanthier, New York ; ^^fe-Hr^ > Vision of St. John Evangelist, Alonso Cano, Private Gallery, Paris. Sunset on the Walkill River (1879); On the Unadilla at New Berlin (1881), F. W T . Thomas; Study of Oaks (1883); Summer Afternoon, View on the Weiuockie River, Oak Grove (1884). JOHNSON, EASTMAN, born in Lovell, Me., July 2!), 1824. Genre painter, studied in Dusseldorf in 1849-51 ; later studied and 350