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painter, pupil in Paris of Munkácsy in 1879-80, having until 1877 served as officer in the Saxon cavalry; studied industriously the Dutch masters of genre painting, and settled in Munich. He paints in the manner of the modern French realists. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1885. Works: The Singer, (1880); Family Concert (1881); Wise Dogs (1881); Seamstresses (1882); Dutch Tavern Room; Arrival of the Organ Grinder, Drum Practice of Bavarian Soldiers (1883); Christ and the Children (1884), Leipsic Museum.—Allgem. K. Chr., ix. 585; L'Art (1882), iii. 62-70; Kunst f. Alle, i. 207, 219; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 673; xxii. 10; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 920; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvii. 100, 143; xix. 260; xx. 93.


UITEWAAL (Uytenwael, Wte Wael, Wttewael), JOACHIM, born at Utrecht in 1566, died there, Aug. 13, 1638. Dutch school; history painter, pupil of his father Antonie Wttewael, and of Joost de Beer; painted mythological subjects in the manner of Bartholomeus Spranger, and of Cornelis van Haarlem, but on account of the reduced scale more pleasing than either. At Padua he made the acquaintance of the Bishop of St. Malo, in whose service he remained four years in Italy and two in France. Works: Meeting of David and Abigail (1597), Amsterdam Museum; Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan (1603), Hague Museum; Fruit Seller, Portraits of Artist and Wife, Utrecht Museum; Lot and his Daughters, Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle; Repast of the Gods (1602), Brunswick Gallery; St. John Preaching (1618), Copenhagen Gallery; Lot and his Daughters, Berlin Museum; Parnassus (1596), Dresden Gallery; Madonna (1608), Gotha Museum; Ceres, Bacchus, Venus and Cupid, Hermannstadt Museum; Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Diana and Actæon (1607), Adoration of Shepherds (1607), Vienna Museum; do., Madrid Museum; Judgment of Paris, Historical Society, New York.—Immerzeel, iii. 149; Kramm, vi. 1656; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 170.



ULFT, JACOB VAN DER, born at Gorinchem in 1627, died there after 1688. Dutch school; landscape and architecture painter, chiefly painted views in and about Rome, numerous and well-grouped figures, also Dutch scenery; combined good drawing with warm and powerful, though sometimes heavy, colouring. Execution free and spirited. Probably studied under Both; visited Italy, where he painted many landscapes and ruins. Works: Roman Ruins, Mr. Hope's Collection, London; Square with Antique Buildings, Fortified Town, Louvre; Roman Troops Marching (1671), Hague Museum; Italian Harbour, do. City, do. Market, Museum, Amsterdam; View of New Town Hall of Amsterdam (1667), City Hall, ib.; Forum of Nerva-Rome, Haarlem Museum; Continence of Scipio (1674), Rotterdam Museum; Trajan's Forum in Rome (1671), Berlin Museum; Seaport, Christiania Gallery; Roman Buildings, Darmstadt Museum; Landscape with Ruins and Figures, Dresden Gallery; View in Roman Campagna, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Dutch Harbour, Oldenburg Gallery; Triumph of Scipio, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Immerzeel, iii. -150; Kramm, vi. 1658; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 510.


ULLIK, HUGO, born in Prague in 1838. Landscape painter, pupil of Prague Academy under Haushofer; worked as a decorative and scene painter at Pilsen, Prague, and Pressburg, then was instructor at the industrial school in Prague, and settled at Munich in 1874; has repeatedly visited the