CHAPTER XX

THE PAINTING OF HUMOROUS ANECDOTE

After seeking exotic subjects painting returns home, and finds amongst peasants a stationary type of life which has preserved picturesque costume.--Munich: The transition from the military picture to the painting of peasants.--Peter Hess, Heinrich Bürkel, Carl Spitzweg.--Hamburg: Hermann Kauffmann.--Berlin: Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim.--The influence of Wilkie, and the novel of village life.--Munich: Johann Kirner, Carl Enhuber.--Düsseldorf: Adolf Schroedter, Peter Hasenclever, Jacob Becker, Rudolf Jordan, Henry Ritter, Adolf Tidemand.--Vienna: Peter Krafft, J. Danhauser, Ferdinand Waldmüller.--Belgium: Influence of Teniers.--Ignatius van Regemorter, Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Henri Coene, Madou, Adolf Dillens.--France: François Biard 140