one mentioned by Diodorus (Excerpt. Vat. xxxi. 534), who lived in Rome about 163 B.C.; or with the Alexandrian painter of the name (Val. Max., v. 1. 1.)—R.-Rochette, Schorn, 271.
DEMETRIUS, ST., Tintoretto, S. Felice,
Venice; canvas. St. Demetrius armed and
accompanied by a person of the Casa Ghigi.—Zanotto,
364.
DEMONT, ADRIEN LOUIS, born at
Douai (Nord), France; contemporary. Landscape
painter, pupil of E. Breton. Medals:
3d class, 1879; 2d class, 1882. Works:
Canal, Village Square (1878); August (1879);
Brickfield, La Scarpe near Douai (1880);
The Landes of Finistèrre (1881), A Mill
(1882), Luxembourg Museum; Morning in
March (1882); Brook, Hyacinths in Bloom
(1883); Jardin du Vieux (1884); Kitchen
Garden in Springtime, Approche du gros
Temps (1885).
DEMONT-BRETON, Mme. VIRGINIE
ÉLODIE, born at Courrières (Pas-de-Calais);
contemporary. Landscape and genre painter,
pupil of Jules Breton. Medals: 3d class,
1881; 2d class, 1883. Works: The Little
Spring, April Flowers (1880); Woman bathing
her Children (1881); The First Step,
The Family (1882); Flat Shore (1883), Luxembourg
Museum; The Calm, Little Birds'-Nester
(1884); Wolves of the Sea (1885).
DEMOPHILUS, painter, of Himera, Sicily,
about 424 B.C. Supposed to have been
the master of Zeuxis.—Pliny, xxxv. 36 [61].
DENIS, SIMON, surnamed den Schelen
(the squint-eyed), born at Antwerp, baptized
April 14, 1755, died in Naples, Jan. 1, 1813.
Flemish school; landscape painter, pupil of
H. J. Antonissen, went to Italy in 1786, and
afterwards settled in Naples, where he was
made first painter to the king. Works: View
of Arpino, Louvre, Paris; Cascade (1793),
Landscape; Sunset, Antwerp Museum.—Biog.
nat. de Belgique, v. 595.
DENNELLE, DOMINIQUE ALEXANDRE,
born in Paris in 1818, died in
Florence, Italy, Dec. 4, 1879. History
painter in fresco; went to Germany when
seventeen to study ceramics, then studied
monumental painting under Delaroche and
Duban, and decorative painting in Italy. L.
of Honour, 1859; Officer, 1874. Works:
Paintings in St. Germain des Prés, St. Clotilde,
St. Trinité, St. Sulpice, St. Eustache,
Paris; Church of the Abbey, St. Denis; St.
Paul's, Nîmes; others in Lyons, Beauvais,
Carcassone, and Orléans.—Müller, 132.
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DENNER, BALTHASAR, born at Altona,
Nov. 15, 1685, died in Rostock, April 14,
1749. German school; portrait painter;
studied under obscure masters in Altona and
Dantzic, then, in 1707, at the Berlin Academy.
In 1709 he began his career by painting
the portraits of Duke Christian Augustus
of Holstein and his sister. At the age of
twenty-four his name was famous, and he
received numberless orders from princes and
nobles of Northern Germany, Denmark, Holland,
and England, which he executed with
microscopic accuracy and infinite elaboration
of detail. Works: Portraits of Duke Christian
August of Holstein and Sister (1709);
Group of Holstein Princes and Courtiers
(1712); Princess of Schleswig (1713); Prince
Mentschikoff (1713); Several Portraits of
King Frederic IV. of Denmark (1712 and
1717); Duchess of Brunswick (1720); Duke
and Duchess of Blankenburg (1729); King
Augustus II. of Poland (1729); Christian VI.
of Denmark
(1734); Duke
Christian Ludwig
of Mecklenburg
and Family
1735); Princess
Sophie
Charlotte of
Denmark (1736); Peter III. of Russia as
Duke of Holstein
(1740); Adolphus
Frederic of Holstein-Gottorp
(1743); Elector of
Cologne (1744); Duke of Holstein (1747);
Duchess of Brunswick (1747); Artist's portrait,
six others, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Por-
