FERNAND EDMOND JEAN MARIE KHNOPFF (1858– )
, Belgian painter and etcher, was born at the chateau de Grembergen ( Termonde), on the 12th of September 1858, and studied under X
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Mellery
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He developed a very original See also: - TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
, his work being characterized by great delicacy of colour, tone and harmony, as subtle in spiritual and intellectual as in its material qualities
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" A Crisis " (1881) was followed by " Listening to Schumann," " St Anthony " and " The Queen of Sheba " (1883), and then came one of his best known works, " The Small Sphinx" (1884)
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His" Memories " (1889) and" See also: - WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
, Black and Gold " (1901) are in the Brussels Museum; " Portrait of Mlle R." (1889) in the Venice Museum; "A Stream at Fosset"(1897) at Budapest Museum; " The Empress (1899) in the collection of the emperor of Austria, and " A Musician " in that of the See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
of the Belgians
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" I lock my Door upon Myself " (1891), which was exhibited at the New Gallery, London, in 1902 and there attracted much attention, was acquired by the Pinakothek at Munich
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Other works are " Silence " (189o), " The Idea of Justice " (1905) and " Isolde " (1906), together with a poly-chrome bust " Sibyl " (1894) and an ivory mask (1897)
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In quiet intensity of feeling Khnopff was influenced by Rossetti, and in simplicity of line by Burne- See also: - JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
, but the poetry and the delicately mystic and enigmatic note of his work are entirely individual
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He did good work also as an etcher and drypointist
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See L
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Dumont-Wilden, Fernand Khnopff (Brussels, 1907)
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