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OLIVER Alcantara, with cloak and stiff linen collar ; folded letter in right hand. Purchased with Modena Gallery in 1746. Repetitious with changes : Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Marquia of Lansdowne, London ; Francis Clare Ford, London. Engraved with varia- tions by H. Pauneels ; P. Pontius ; Cor. Gallseus ; F. Navarro ; M. Meriau ; P. de Jode ; Moncoruet ; L. Noseret. Curtis, 72. By Velasquez, Mrs. Henry Huth, Wyke- hurst, Surrey, England ; canvas, H. 6 ft. 9 in. x 3 ft. 7 in. Standing, full-length, with bare head, wearing an embroidered black dress, with green cross of Alcantara, and a short cloak ; left hand on his sword ; right, holding a wand, rests on a table ; red dra- pery in background. Repetitions : Robert S. Holford, London ; Hermitage, St. Peters- burg. Curtis, 71 ; London Ulust. News, May 21, 1853. By Velasquez, Madrid Museum ; canvas, H. 10 ft. 3 in. x 7 ft. 10 in. On a chestnut horse galloping to left ; dress, a steel cui- rass, sombrero, crimson scarf, and long boots ; points with a baton to a battle rag- ing in background. Painted about 1640 ; passed from house of Guzman to the Mar- quis de la Ensenada, from whom purchased by Charles III. Etched by F. Goya; B. Maura. Lithographed by J. Jollivet ; E. C. Cos. Repetition (white horse), Earl of El- gin, Broom Hall, Fife, Scotland. Sketches: Due de Montpensier, Seville ; Sir Richard Wallace, London. Palomino, iii. 332 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1880), xxi. 529 ; Gal. Esp. ; Curtis, 70 ; Madrazo, 611. OLIVER, ISAAC, born in 1556, died in London about 1617. Pupil of Nicholas Billiard and of Zucchero ; attained emi- nence as a miniature painter, his works be- ing compared to those of Holbein. He painted ^ Queen Eliza- / f)0 t ,_. , /C~ beth, Maryv/' t/ tU/e*~ / &O , Queen of Scots, Prince Henry, Ben Jonson, a full-length of Sir Philip Sidney (Windsor Castle), and other noted persons ; also, in oil, portraits of himself and family. His son and pupil Peter (1601-60) surpassed J. him in his miniatures, many of which are in old collections. Redgrave. OLIVIE, LEON, born at Narbonne (Aude) ; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Coedes and Cogniet. Medal, 3d class, 1876. Studio in Paris. Works : Woman Singing, The Brother Tailor, Monk Praying (1874) ; The Question, A Fisherman of the Seine (1876) ; Brutus's Oath over the Body of Lucretia (1878) ; Arab Merchant in Paris (1881) ; Palm Sunday in Etretat (1883) ; New-Born, Under the Sideboard (1884) ; A Duty (1885) ; Falstaff and Doll Tear-Sheet, W. B. Bement, Philadelphia. OLIVIER, ( JOHANN HEINRICH) FER- DINAND VON, born at Dessau, April 1, 1785, died in Munich, Feb. 11, 1841. His- tory and landscape painter, pupil of K. W. Kolbe and Haldenwang, then in Dresden of Jakob Mechau ; went in 1807 to Paris, in 1811 to Vienna, having returned to Des- sau, in 1810, and in 1833 became professor and secretary-general at Munich Academy. Works : Pilgrims' Procession thro' the Woods (1814), Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort ; Franciscan Monastery near Salzburg (1826), Leipsic Museum ; Equestrian Portrait of Napoleon, Dessau ; Baptism of Christ, Last Supper, Gothic Church Worlitz ; The Scouts with the Grapes of Canaan, Landscape (mas- ter-piece), Basle Museum ; Replica of latter (1840), Raczyuski Gallery, Berlin. His brother Heinrich (born in 1783, died in Berlin, March 3, 1848), followed the same course of study, accompanied him to Paris, and with him painted the portrait of Napo- leon, and several historical pictures for the Duke of Anhalt, among which are the two in the Gothic Church at Worlitz. Cotta's Kunstbl. (1839), 17 ; Hagen, i. 328 ; Nag- ler, x. 340 ; 344 ; N. Necrol. d. D. (1841), 204 ; Soltl, 249. 363