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 and convents at Padua and Ravenna. He died in 1636.

BISUCCIO, Leonabdo di, of Milan, is a painter whose name has been handed down to posterity by the reputation of one work only. It is the decora- tion of the chapel of Sergiani Carracciolo, in the church of San Giovanni a Carbonara, in Naples. The subjects are scenes from the life of the Virgin, in which several portraits of members of the Car- racciolo family have been introduced. In general treatment the work resembles the style of Giotto, but the heads partake of the beauty of Fra An- gelico. Bisuccio lived about the middle of the 15th century.

BITTERLICH, Eduaed, was bom at Stupnicka, in Galicia, where his father had established him- self. Whilst Eduard was still young his parents moved to Vienna, with the intention of educating him for the civil service, but against their will he entered Waldmijller's studio, and devoted himself to miniature painting. In 1855 be went to Venice in order to copy the works of the old masters. His enthusiasm was so great that he would scarcely allow himself the time to eat and drink. Upon his return he married Marie Singer von Wyssogurski, and immediately afterwards put himself under the direction of Rahl, whom he never afterwards left until his death. For this master he designed many fresco paintings, and sketched an immense number of small compositions, amongst them the 20 sheets for the ' Wanderings of the Argonauts,' and the coloured sketches for the Duke of Oldenburg. After Rahl's death, Bitterlich's principal work — executed in conjunction with Griepenkerl — was the design for the new Opera House ; and of his earlier productions we may name, The Pompeian figures in the Ypsilanti Palace, and the 20 Lunettes in the Banqueting-hall of the Grand Hotel of Vienna, together with the pictures for the restored castle of Duke Leopold in Homstein. He died at Pressbaum, near Vienna, in 1872.

BITTHEUSER, Johann Pleickabd, an engraver, born at Biitthard in 1774, was instructed by J. G. von Miiller; he was professor at Wiirzburg, and died there in 1859. The following engravings are some of his best works :

The Last Supper ; after Leonardo da Vinci. 1805. The meeting of Augustus and Cleopatra; after Ji. Meiigs. The Wife of Domenichino roming out of the bath ; after Domenichino.

BIZAMANUS was the name of a family of painters who belonged to a school at Otranto, in Apuleia, and flourished a short time before the 15th century. Their paintings are executed in the Byzantine style, with landscapes in the back- grounds. The painting in the Museo Cristiano of Qie Vatican, of ' Christ, risen from the dead, and Mary Magdalene,' is attributed to Donatus Biza- manus; and that in the Museum at Berlin, of 'The Descent from the Cross,' to Angelus Bizamanus.

BIZEMONT-PRDNEL^, Andr^ Gaspard Pab- FAiT, Comte de, French draughtsman and engraver, was born at the chateau of Tignonville, near Etampes, in 1762. He was a pupil of E. Gaucher, and etched and engraved on wood a considerable number of works. He was for some years director of the Museum at Orleans, and died there in 1837. Among his etchings may be mentioned :

Bagar and Ishmael ; after Ouereino. Oephalu£ and Procris ; after the same. Vurgin and Child ; after Guido. A Pieti ; after Ribera. La Nounice ; after Natoire. An Allegory upon the death of Louis XVI. and of Marie Antoinette.

BIZZELLI, Giovanni, a Florentine painter, bom in 1556. He was a scholar of Alessandro Allori, called Bronzino. He afterwards went to Rome, where he painted some pictures for the churches. On his return to Florence he executed several works for the public edifices, which are described by Borghini in his accoimt of the painters and sculptors of Florence. He died in 1612. His own Portrait and an ' Annunciation ' by him are in the Uffizi.

BLACEO, Bernaedino. Ridolfi describes several ivorks of this painter in the churches at Udine, in the Friuli — among them, the principal altar-piece of the church of Santa Lucia, representing the ' Virgin and Infant Saviour, with a group of Angels, and St. Lucia and St. Agatha ; ' and in Porta Nuova, the ' Virgin and Infant Christ, with St. Peter and St, John.' Blaceo appears to have flourished about 1550.

BLACKLOCK, W. J., a landscape painter, was born in 1816. His views of scenery in the North of England were much admired at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1853 and the two follow- ing years. He died at Brampton, Cumberland, in 1858.

BLACKMORE, Joh.v, a mezzotint engraver, was born in London about the year 17'10. ' e have by him some well-scraped plates, chiefly portraits after Sir Joshua Reynolds, among which are the following:

Samuel Foote ; after Sir Joshua Heijnolds. 1771. W. H. Bunbury, caricaturist ; after the same. Henry Bunbury ; after the same. Innocence. 1770.

He also engraved plates after Frans Hals and other Flemish artists. He died about 1780.

BLACKWELL, Elizabeth, the daughter of a London merchant, is known as the author of ' A Curious Herbal, containing 500 cuts of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physic, engraved on copper-plates after drawings taken from the life,' published in 1737 and 1739. This celebrated botanical work was issued at Nuremberg in 1757, with German and Latin text, and 600 coloured plates, and at Leipsic in 1794. Mrs. Blackwell was the wife of Dr. Blackwell, who for many years was physician to the King of Sweden, and was involved in a State prose- cution for treason, and beheaded in 1747. His widow lived till 1774.

BLAGRAVE, John, an eminent mathematician, a native of Berkshire, published among other works, in 1585, 'The Mathematical Jewel,' illus- trated with woodcuts, executed by himself, in a neat style. He died in 1611.

BLAIN DE FONTENAY, Jean Baptiste. A mistake for Belin de Fontenay, which see.

BLAIZE, Candide, a French miniature painter, was born at Nancy in 1795, and died in Paris about 1855.

BLAKE, B., a painter of still-life, birds, fish, and other objects of that kind. His works, when carefully painted, are very pleasing, but his circumstances, and his mode of li-ing, obliged him to hurry his pictures, and too frequently to repeat them. As they were to a certain degree popular in his