KNYFF of Mortefontaine, Isle of Cesambre (1884). Journal cles B. Arts (I860), 150 ; Milller, 304. KNYFF, WOUTER, born fit Wesel, of a Haarlem family ; living in Kill). Dutch school. Painted city views and landscapes in the style of Van Goyen ; received into Haarlem Guild in 1041. Pictures very rare. Work : View of a City on a River, Ghent Museum. Kramm, iii. 8K2. KOBEL, GEOltG, bom at Worms in 1807. Landscape painter, pupil of Dresden and Munich Academies ; visited North Italv several times, and Home in 1KJI! and 1H:!S, and was greatly influenced by Marko ; re- turned to Munich in 1840. Works: Views of Lake Garda ; Views in the Ramsau ; San G reform in Sabine Mountains ; Cloister Andeclis in Bavaria; Passenhofen ; Ober- Ammergau ; Grotto of Egeria, Scliack Gal- lery. Munich; Konigsee near Bercuteflgiuleu ; Porta Nomentana ; View of St. Peter's, Koine, Carlsnihe Gallery. --Miiller, :104. KOIJELL, FERDINAND, born in Mann- heim, June 7, 1740, died in Munich, Feb. I, IT'.I'.I. Landscape painter, pupil in Mann- heim of Verschatlelt. Studied from 17liS in Paris, and after his return became court- painter and professor at the Mannheim Academy. In 170:i lie was made director of the Munich galleries. His landscapes, in the style -of Ben-hem, arc effective and truthful studies from nature. Works : Views in and near Aschaffenburg(O), Aachaffenburg Gallery ; Four Landscapes (one dated 1785), Kchleissheim Gallery ; Six do., Carlsnihe Gallery; Three do. (1784, ]7!)1), Darmstadt Museum ; Five do., Stuttgart Museum ; oth- ers in Augsburg Gallery. Allgciu. d. Biogr., xvi. 350 ; Kugler, kl. Scliriften, iii. 'M>( ; Kunstblatt (1858), 280 ; Lipowsky, 155. KOBELL, FRANZ, born at Mannheim, Nov. 2:5, 1749, died in Munich, Jan. 14, 1822. Landscape painter, pupil of Mann- heim Academy, went in 177(> to Italy, where he spent nine years, chiefly at Rome, and on his return in 1785 settled in Munich, and was made court-painter and honorary member of the Academy ; afterwards de- voted himself entirely to drawing, and is said to have left over 10,000 productions of his pencil. Works : Rocky Landscaj>e with Waterfalls, Bamberg Gallery; Morning Landscape, Evening Landscape, do. (1778), Cart -Horse and Figures, Boy feeding Horses, Horse Stable (1780), Mountainous Land- scape, Weimar Museum. -Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. It55 ; Goethe, Wiukelmann, ii.; D. Kunstbl. (1822). 1S1. KOBELL, JAN, born at Delftshaven in 1771>, died at Amsterdam, Sept. 2:i, 1814. Animal and landscape painter, son of Hcn- drik Kohcll (landscape and marine painter, 1751-01), by whom there is a Storm at Sea (1771!) in the Gotha Museum); pupil at I'lrecht of Willem Kutgaart van der Wall. and took Paul Potter for his model ; went in 1S12 to Paris, where, in the same year, he won a gold medal, and rapidly attained popularity. His fellow-artists at Amsterdam honoured him as their foremost animal painter. In 1MI! 14 he lived in London until short lv before his death. Works: Landscape with Cattle, View in Gelders, Oxen at Pasture (ISII(i), Museum. Amster- dam ; L-indscape with Cattle, Hor>e and Goats by a Barn, Landscape with Peasants Milking. Museum I-'odor, ib. ; Oxen and Sheep in a Meadow, Rotterdam Museum. Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. .'{54 ; Iinmer/eel, ii. 120 ; Kramm, iii. 8S5. KOIJELL. JAN, born at Rotterdam, April Hi, 1SOI), died there, Nov. 8. ls:',S. Animal and landscape painter, son of the engraver Jan Kobell (1750 l<s:i:t, a brother of Hen- drik), pupil of Rotterdam Academy ; painted
- it the age of seventeen a Cow Stable, which
was placed in the Hague Museum. His principal work, a life-si/e Cattle-piece (1830), was immediately sold in Paris. His sister, Anna (1705-1847), was also an esteemed artist, whose works are in private collec- tions in Holland. -Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 355. KOBELL, WILHELM VON, bom in Mannheim, April <!, 17IJO, died in Munich,
