[Footnote 7: I was informed, in October, 1881, by August Gaber, that the wood engravings made by him of _The Seven Sacraments_ had proved a financial failure, and that he had in the undertaking lost his all. The Bible of Schnorr, also rendered on wood by him, had, on the contrary succeeded. The reason assigned why the public did not care for _The Seven Sacraments_ was, that the treatment is too strongly Catholic; and this can hardly be a prejudiced judgment, because it was pronounced by Herr Gaber, himself a Catholic.] [Footnote 8: The picture is in tempera on canvas, and was put up on the ceiling of Pio Nono's sitting room in the Quirinal Palace. But when the King of Italy took possession, a new canvas with cupids and putti was stretched over it, and the Pope's sitting room is now turned into Prince Humbert's bedroom. This brutality might almost justify the good painter in his belief that Satan is now let loose upon earth. Yet the plea has not without reason been urged that the picture is a deliberate attack on the King's temporal power. The original cartoon was, in 1876, exhibited in the National Gallery, Berlin, and the same subject the artist repeated in an oil picture (10 feet by 8 feet), now in the Antwerp Museum. Overbeck had been made a "Membre effectif" of the Antwerp Academy in 1863, and the commission for this _replica_ followed thereon. I am told on authority that in Antwerp "the work is considered very mediocre."] [Illustration: JOANNES FRIDERICUS OVERBECK IN PACE THE RESTING-PLACE OF OVERBECK IN THE CHURCH OF SAN BERNARDO, ROME, IS MARKED BY A CROSS OF WHITE MARBLE BORDERED WITH BLACK, AND BEARING AN INSCRIPTION AS ABOVE.] CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF OVERBECK. A.D. PAGE 1789. Overbeck born at Lübeck, 4th July 1 His Ancestors for three generations Protestant Pastors 3 His father Burgomaster, Doctor of Laws, and Poet 5 1800. His Home Education 7 1805. His First Drawing 9 1806. Leaves Lübeck for Vienna 9 Student in Viennese Academy 10 1809. Begins painting _Christ's Entry into Jerusalem_ 11 1810. Rebels against the Viennese Academy, and is expelled 15 Leaves Vienna and reaches Rome 18 1811. German Brotherhood of pre-Raphaelites 20 Monastery of Sant' Isidoro, the Dwelling of the Fraternity 24 First Commission 28 1813. Overbeck joins the Roman Catholic Church 33 1817. Niebuhr, Bunsen, and Schlegel, literary friends 34-40