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ENFANT ENFANT A L'EPEE, Edouard Manet, Erwin Davis, New York ; Canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. X 3 ft. ; dated 1801. A child walking to left, dragging a largo sword after him. Hotel Drouot Sale (Paris, 1881). ENGELBRECHTSEN. CORNELLS, born in Leyden in 1408, died there in 1533. Dutch school ; son of the wood-engraver Engelbert, and himself the earliest known painter at Leyden. Two altarpieces in the Town Hall there are attributed to him by Van Marnier. The stitF and formal fig- ures, painted dryly in a prevailing brown tone, arc treated without any attempt at aerial perspective. Many of Engelbrecht- scn's works were destroyed by the Icon- oclasts during the Reformation. Authentic Works : Altarpiece with Crucifixion, do. with 1'ieta, Town Hall, Leyden. Doubtful works : St. Leonard, Antwerp Museum ; Crucifixion, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; De- position, Morit/ Chapel, J )y7 Nuremberg; Madonna ^T"* ' and Child, National Gal- lery, London ; 2 pictures, Hermitage, St. Peters- burg ; Crucifixion, Venice Academy. Allgem. d. Biogr., vi. 130 ; Dobme, 11; Michiels, iv. 339; W. .V W., ii. 530. ENGELHARDT, GEORG, born at Miilil- liausen, Thuringia, in 1823. Landscape paint- er, pupil in Berlin of Eduard Uiermann ; travelled repeatedly in the Alpine countries, whence he draws most of his subjects. Works : Meiring Valley, Mew in Otz Val- ley, Tyrol ; View in South Tyrol ; Forest with tall Trees (1807); Charcoal-Burner on the Brocken ; The Jungfrau ; Autumn Land- scape (1872); Mills in Otz Valley. Mailer, 1GO. ENGERTH, EDUARD VON, Hitter, born at Pless, Silesia, May 13, 1818. History and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Acad- emy, where in 1845 he obtained the gold medal ; went in 1847 to Rome, and then travelled until 1853 in Italy, France, Eng- land, and the East. After his return in 1854 AT v A m j he became director of the Prague Academy, and there painted chiefly portraits, and in 1805 professor at the Vienna Acad- emy ; was made di- rector of the Belve- dere Gallery in 1871, and rector of the Academy in 1874. Commander Order v of Francis Joseph in 1807. Works: Hainan and Esther, L a d i s 1 a u s and Akus (1844); Coronation of Rudolf I.; Jo- seph explaining the Dream (1845); Seizure of King Manfred's Family (1853), Vienna Museum ; Victory of Prince Eugene at Zeiita (1805); Marriage of Figaro, Fable of Orpheus (1808); Coronation of Francis Jo- seph as King of Hungary (1870); Death of Eurydice (1877); Group of Prague Ladies ; Portraits of Emperor and Empress of Aus- tria. Brockhaus, vi. 141 ; Kuust-Clironik, i. 84 ; iv. 174 ; v. 172 ; Wurzbach, iv. 49 ; xiv. 440 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, iii. 5. ENHUBER, KARL VON, born at Hof, Bavaria, Dec. 10, 1811, died in Munich, July (!, 1807. Genre and animal priinter, pupil of Munich Academy in 1832. His pictures of Suabian life are characteristic, hu- mourous, and both well drawn a n d col- oured. Honorary member of Munich Academy in 1858. Order I of St. Michael. Works : Poachers sought by Forester (1835); Tyrolese in Mountain Pass, Dying Constable (1830); Shoemaker studying, Watercure (1837); Image Carver '(1839); Smoking Boy (1841); Peering into Cooking Pot (1843); Shoemaker's Appren- tice, Civic Guardsman (1844), National Gal- lery, Berlin ; Village Painter's Apprentice (1852); Interrupted Game of Cards (1858); iv