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LIES Munich of Richard Zimmermann ; studied from nature in the Bavarian Alps, visited France in 1861 and 1864, studying and copy- ing in the Louvre. Especially attracted by Jules Dupre he followed him to Isle-Adam in the winter of 1864-65, then visited Eng- land, and returned via North Germany and Dresden. In 1869 he opened a special school for landscape painting and soon held a position similar to that of Piloty in history and genre ; in 1873 he abandoned teaching, visited Holland, and in 1870 the Scotch Highlands. Honorary Member of Dresden (1868) and Munich (1877) Academies ; med- als in Vienna and Berlin. Works : Village near Habach (1855) ; Evening Landscape in Approaching Storm (1856) ; Stone Image with Chapel (1857) ; Starnberg Lake (1858); View near Dachau (1859) ; Summer Morn- ing (1860) ; Evening on the Isar (1862) ; Coast near Etretat Normandy, Evening on Canal near Schleissheim, Summer on High Plain (1863) ; Evening Landscape in Meck- lenburg (1866); Autumn Morning, Avenue in a Fog, Village Street by Moonlight (1807); | Moonlight on the Oise (1867), Dresden Gal- lery ; View on the Elbe, View near Schleiss- heiin (1868) ; Morning, Noon, Evening, Night, View on the Isar (1869) ; Potato Har- vest (1870) ; Four Seasons (1871) ; Highway in Rain, Foggy Morning on Chiem Lake (1872); Strand at Scheveningen (1873); Win- ter Evening (1875); Beech Wood (1876);! Evening on the Isar (1877), National Gallery, Berlin ; Evening Landscape (1878), Munich Art Union; View near Giggenhausen (1881); Sunset on Scotch Coast, Stuttgart Gallery ; Theresa Meadow (1882, last work), New! Pinakothek, Munich. Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 631 ; D. Kunstbl. (1882), 20 ; Illust. Zeitg. (1882), ii. 364; Kuust-Chronik, xvii. 480 ; xviii. 23, 364 ; Vom Fels zum Meer (1883), 433. LIES, JOSEPH, born at Antwerp, July 8, 1821, died in 1865. Historical genre and landscape painter, pupil of Nicaise de Key- ser, and of Hendrik Leys, whom he took, in every respect, for his model ; while not at- taining the same brilliancy of colouring, his works attract more directly than those of his master, through vividness of expression. Studied also in Italy. Works : The Enemy is near (1857), Prisoners of War, Antwerp Museum ; Justice of Boudewyn Hapkin, The Trials of War, Brussels Museum ; Eras- mus reproaching his Friend Holbein with FLORENCE his Mode of Life. Rooses (Reber), 471 ; Reber-Pecht, iii. 87. LIESKE, KARL, born in Gross Schimau, near Zittau, in 1816, died in Munich, March 21, 1878. Animal painter, pupil of Dres- den Academy ; removed about 1839 to Mu- nich, where he was much benefited by the in- tercourse with Theodor Horschelt. Works : Horse Stable, Leaving the Alp (1843) ; Em- barking of Horses on the Inn (1845) ; Re- turn to Alp-Cottage (1847); Sumpter-Horscs at the Well (1854) ; From Hunter's Life (1859) ; From the Bavarian Alps (1865) ; Horses on the Inn (1871); Peasant's Horses at Watering Place (1873) ; Landscape with Animals and Figures, Saint Gall Museum. Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 638. LIEVENS (Livens, Lyvins), JAN, born at Leyden, Oct. 24, 1007, died at Am- sterdam, buried June 8, 1074. Dutch school ; history and portrait painter, pupil of Joris Ver- schooten, and at Amsterdam of Pieter Lastman, afterwards greatly influenced by Rembrandt ; in 1631 was called to England, where, during a residence of three years, he painted the royal family and many persons of distinction ; after his return settled at 79