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 the combimtion of their powers. While they resided at Venice, returning liome from an entertainment, in or before 1644, Andries unfortunately fell into one of the canals, and was drowned. Both did not long remain in Italy after t!ie death of his brother, but returned to Utrecht, where lie endeavoured, it is said, to supply his loss by having the figures in his landscapes painted by Comelis Poelenburg. He died after 1662. (See 'Catalogue of Duhvich Gallery ' by Dr. Richter.)

The following are some of his principal works : his brother Andries assisted in the greater part ; they are nearly invariably signed J. Both — the J and the B interlaced.

Amsterdam. Gallery. Italiau Laudscapes {three}. „ „ A Farm. „ Artist studying from Nature {one of his best works). Antwerp, Museitm. Italian Scene. Berlin. Gallery. Italian Landscape. 1650. Brussels. Gallery. Italian Landscape. Copeuiiagem. Gallery. Italian Landscapes {tico). Dresden. Gallery. Landscapes with Figures (Jive). Dulwich. College. AMoiuiiSLm'Path {and four otkerSf in the style of Claude Lorrain). Florence. Uffizi. Landscape with figures. Hague. Gallery. Italian Landscapes (two). London. Kat. Gall Landscape — a party of Muleteers {one of his best works). „ „ Landscape with Figures {the figures by Poelemlnirg represent the * Judgment of Paris '). „ „ Rocky Italian Landscape. J, „ Cattle and Figures. „ „ Outside the Walls of Rome. „ „ Eiver Scene {all signed). „ Buclringham Pal. Baptism of the Eunuch. Munich. Pinahothek. Landscapes {six). Paris. Louvre. Landscapes (tico). Petersburg. Hermitage. Landscapes {tico).

The admirers of etchings are indebted to these able painters for a few plates, which are executed in so picturesque and masterly a style that we regret they had not more frequently amused them- selves with the point. By Jan Both we have : A set of four upright Landscapes ; signed J. Both fee. A set of six Landscapes ; lengthways ; J. B. f. A Landscape, with loaded Mules ; Both fee. A Landscape, with a Traveller seated, with a Basket ; J. Both inv. et fee.

The Five Senses ; from the designs of Andries Both.

BOTT, —, is supposed to have been a pupil of Moucheron. A landscape, in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, bears his name and the date 1677.

BOTTALLA, Giovanni Maria, was born at Savona, in the Genoese, in 1613. According to Soprani he went to Rome when he was young, and studied some time under Pietro da Cortona. He was taken into the protection of Cardinal Sacchetti, for whom he painted several pictures, which were afterwards placed in the Capitol by Benedict XIV. The most important of these was ' The Meeting of Jacob and Esau.' He acquired the name of ' Raffael- lino,' from his great veneration for the works of Raphael, but he never divested himself of the style of Pietro da Cortona. His other works are in the churches of Naples and Genoa. He died at Milan in 1644.

BOTTANI, Giuseppe, was bom at Cremona in 1717, and studied first at Florence under Meuoci and Puglieschi, and in 1740, at Rome, under Agostino Masucci. He returned in 1745, and estab- lished a school of painting at Cremona, and also gained considerable reputation for painting land- scapes, in the style of Gaspard Poussin, into which he introduced figures in the pleasing manner of Carlo Maratta, In 1769 he was made director of the Academy at Mantua. His only historical work worthy of notice, ' St. Paola taking leave of her Attendants,' is mentioned by Lanzi, as being in the church of SS. Cosmo e Damiano at Milan : it is now in the gallery there, which also possesses Bottani's own portrait by himself.

BOTTICELLI. See Filipepi.

BOTTRCHILDT, Samuel, a painter and en- graver, was bom at Sangerhausen, in Saxony, in 1641. He painted historical subjects with some success, and was made painter to the court, and keeper of the Electoral Gallery at Dresden, in which city he established an academy for the in- struction of the young artists of his country. He died at Dresden in 1707. We huve the following etchings by him, some of which are from his own designs :

The exterminating Angel destroying the Army of Sen- nacherib : .?. Botschild, acqua forti. Four of Allegorical Figures. Four of the Times of the Day. Two emblematical subjects, one of Hope and Patience, the other Faith and Charity ; oval. Ulysses and Epeus giricg the Dimensions of the Trojan Horse. Hercules, with Cupid spinning.

BOUCHARD, Joseph, a French engraver, flour- ished about the year 1760. He engraved several plates representing buildings and antiquities, which are executed in a neat, finished stvle.

BOUCHARDON, Edme, a French sculptor, architect, and engraver, was born at Chaumont- en-Bassigni in 1698. After studying in Italy he established himself in Paris, where he died in 1762. His portrait by himself is in the Uflizi, Florence. He engraved : Two Portraits of Cardinal Borghese ; afler Bernini. Two Studies ; after Carlo Maratti. A little Cupid : oval.

BOUCHE, Martin, an engraver, is believed, from the inscription on some of his prints, to have been a native of Antwerp. He worked cliiefly for the booksellers, and was principally employed on portraits. His plates are executed almost wholly with the graver, in a neat but stiff style, and they are not without merit. Among his portraits are : John Fenwick, a Jesuit, who was executed at Tyburn, 1679. Thomas Harcott, another Jesuit ; signed Martin Bouche sc. AiitiverpiiB.

He engraved several others of the same Order, who suffered in England, and represented them with a knife in their breast, indicative of their sufferings.

BOUCHER, Fr.N(JOIS, a French painter and engraver, was born in Paris on the 29th of Sep- tember, 1703. His father designed patterns for embroidery, and from him Boucher no doubt received his earliest instruction in art. He was afterwards a pupil of Le Moine, but is said to have remained with him only three montlis, wlien he became the assistant of Jean Francois Cars, the father of Laurent Cars, who employed him in making designs for the headings of the "theses" and other works of which he was the publisher. Having in 1721 designed a series of illustrations to Daniel's '-Histoire de France," and subsequently en- graved for M. de Julienne the plates of Watteau's " Livre d'Etudes," he in 1723 gained the first prize at the Academy with his picture of ' Evilmerodack setting free Jehoiakim ' ; but, through want of