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OESTEELEY OESTE11LEY, KARL (AUGUST HEIN- RICH FERDINAND), the younger, born at GOttiugeu, Jan. 23, 1839. Landscape paint- er, son of the preceding, pupil of Diissel- dorf Academy under Deger, when he paint- ed two pictures from sacred history ; went to Liibeck in 1865, and thence visited Nor- way in 1870, and repeatedly afterwards ; settled in Hamburg. Medal, 1st class, Mu- nich, 1879. Works : Street in Liibeck by Moonlight ; Midnight in the Loffoden ; Ra- vine in Mountains of Norway ; Romsdal Fjord ; Norwegian Fjord ; Raft Sund in North Norway (1879), Breslau Museum ; View on Palteu Fjord (1882), Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Oldenvand in the North Fjord (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 188(5). Mailer, 402 ; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 679. OEVER, HENDRIK TEN, born at /wolle (?), flourished there second half of 17th century. Dutch school ; landscape and portrait paiutei', about whose life and artistic training nothing is known ; his rare landscapes with animals show him as one of the best masters of the Dutch school, who, misjudged in his time, probably took up portrait painting from necessity. Works : Family Group (1669), Amsterdam Museum ; Dutch Landscape with Bathers and Cows (1675), National Gallery, Edinburgh ; do. with Peasants and Cows, Mr. Cramer, Co- logne ; Groups of Church Wardens (1690), Sacristy, St. Michael's, Zwolle. Kramm, iv. 1217 ; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 503. OFFTERDINGER, KARL, born in Stutt- gart, Jan. 8, 1829. History and genre paint- er, pupil of Stuttgart Art School under Rus- tige. Works : Ceiling in Church of Lauch- heim ; Frieze in Liederhalle, Stuttgart ; Peasant W'edding ; Gypsy Camp ; In the Circus. OGGIONO, MARCO DA. See Marco da Oggiono. OGILVIE, CLINTON, born in New York in 1838. Landscape painter, pupil of James Hart in New York. Elected an A.N.A. in 1864. Has visited Europe twice and worked in Paris. Works : Path by the River ; Farm- ington River Scenery ; Near Brummer Switzerland ; Lake of Killarney ; In the Woods (1876) ; Afternoon on the Avon (1879) ; Colline de la Madone at Mentone (1880) ; Landscape (1882) ; Mediterranean Coast near Cannes, Near Vichy France (1883) ; Summer at Auteuil France, Near Monaco France, Argeles France (1884) ; Down by the River (1885) ; Hyores (1886). OLBIADES, painter of a picture in the Senate House of the Five Hundred, Athens, representing Calippus, who repulsed the invading Gauls at Thermopylae (279 B.C.). Pans. i. 3, 5 ; Brunn, ii. 293. OLD KENTUCKY HOME, Eastman Johnson, R. L. Stuart Collection, New York. A typical home in Kentucky, with the usual negro surroundings in the days before the war, exhibiting a phase of American planta- tion life now almost passed away. This picture first gave Mr. Johnson a reputation. Exposition universelle, Paris, 1867 ; Cen- tennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876. OLD MONARCH, Rosa Bonheur, W. H. Vanderbilt Collection, New York. The head, life-size, of a noble male lion. En- graved by W. H. Simmons. OLIMPI See Alimpi. OLIS, JAN, born at Dordrecht (?) about 1610, died, probably at Amsterdam, after 1665. Dutch school ; genre and portrait painter, entered the guild at Dordrecht in 1632 ; his pictures are similar in style to those of the followers of Gerard Honthorst, especially Cesar van Everdingen, Jacob van Loo, and Jan van Brouchorst. Works: Kitchen Interior (1645), Amsterdam Muse- um ; Pastoral Scene (attributed to Jan Lys), Darmstadt Museum ; Peasant with Beer- Mug (1655), Gotha Museum; The Visit, Wesselhoeft Collection, Hamburg ; Male portrait, Victor de Stuers, The Hague. Bode, Studien, 330 ; Kramm, iv. 1219 ; Rep. f. K, iii. 316. OLIVARES, CONDE DE, portrait, Ve- lasquez, Dresden Gallery ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 7 in. x 3 ft. 3 in. Bust, three-quarters left, in black dress, green cross of the Order of