Wiertz, Antoine, a Belgian painter, born at Dinant, did a great variety of pictures on a variety of subjects, some of them on a large scale, and all in evidence of a high ideal of his profession, and an original genius for art (1806-1865).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Wier, Johann * Wiesbaden