ENFANT À L'EPÉE, Édouard Manet, Erwin Davis, New York; Canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 3 ft.; dated 1861. A child walking to left, dragging a large sword after him. Hôtel Drouot Sale (Paris, 1881).
ENGELBRECHTSEN, CORNELIS, born
in Leyden in 1468, 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 Mander. The stiff and formal figures,
painted dryly in a prevailing brown
tone, are treated without any attempt at
aerial perspective. Many of Engelbrechtsen's
works were destroyed by the Iconoclasts
during the Reformation. Authentic
Works: Altarpiece with Crucifixion, do.
with Pietà, Town Hall, Leyden. Doubtful
works: St. Leonard, Antwerp Museum;
Crucifixion, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Deposition,
Moritz Chapel,
Nuremberg; Madonna
and Child, National Gallery,
London; 2 pictures,
Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Crucifixion, Venice
Academy.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vi. 136;
Dohme, 1i.; Michiels, iv. 339; W. & W.,
ii. 530.
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ENGELHARDT, GEORG, born at Mühlhausen, Thuringia, in 1823. Landscape painter, pupil in Berlin of Eduard Biermann; travelled repeatedly in the Alpine countries, whence he draws most of his subjects. Works: Meiring Valley, View in Ötz Valley, Tyrol; View in South Tyrol; Forest with tall Trees (1867); Charcoal-Burner on the Brocken; The Jungfrau; Autumn Landscape (1872); Mills in Ötz Valley.—Müller, 160.
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ENGERTH, EDUARD VON, Ritter, born
at Pless, Silesia, May 13, 1818. History
and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Academy,
where in 1845 he obtained the gold
medal; went in 1847 to Rome, and then
travelled until 1853 in Italy, France, England,
and the East. After his return in 1854
he became director of the Prague Academy,
and there painted chiefly portraits, and in
1865 professor at
the Vienna Academy;
was made director
of the Belvedere
Gallery in 1871,
and rector of the
Academy in 1874.
Commander Order
of Francis Joseph
in 1867. Works:
Haman and Esther,
Ladislaus and
Akus (1844); Coronation of Rudolf I.; Joseph
explaining the Dream (1845); Seizure
of King Manfred's Family (1853), Vienna
Museum; Victory of Prince Eugene at
Zenta (1865); Marriage of Figaro, Fable of
Orpheus (1868); Coronation of Francis Joseph
as King of Hungary (1870); Death of
Eurydice (1877); Group of Prague Ladies;
Portraits of Emperor and Empress of Austria.—Brockhaus,
vi. 141; Kunst-Chronik,
i. 84; iv. 174; v. 172; Wurzbach, iv. 49;
xiv. 440; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iii. 5.
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ENHUBER, KARL VON, born at Hof,
Bavaria, Dec. 16, 1811,
died in Munich, July
6, 1867. Genre and
animal painter, pupil
of Munich Academy
in 1832. His pictures
of Suabian life are
characteristic, humourous,
and both
well drawn and coloured.
Honorary
member of Munich Academy in 1858. Order
of St. Michael. Works: Poachers sought
by Forester (1835); Tyrolese in Mountain
Pass, Dying Constable (1836); Shoemaker
studying, Watercure (1837); Image Carver
(1839); Smoking Boy (1841); Peering into
Cooking Pot (1843); Shoemaker's Apprentice,
Civic Guardsman (1844), National Gallery,
Berlin; Village Painter's Apprentice
(1852); Interrupted Game of Cards (1858);