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 of stopping at Lyons to recruit his exhausted finances by the exercise of his talent, and having succeeded, he at length reached Rome, and placed himself under the instruction of Ids brother. But his best studies were made from the landscapes of Titian, some of which he had an opportunity of copying, and he began to distinguish himself by a style which, though founded on the great principles of that m;i8ter, was sufficiently original to be con- sidered as his own. For Bome time he assisted his brother in liis works in the Vatican, and on the death of that artist, the pension of the Pope was continued to Paulus ; and, according to Baglioni, on the succession of Sixtus V. he was engaged in some considerable works in the Sistine Chapel, in Santa Maria Maggiore, and in the Scala Santa in San Giovanni in Laterano. He was not less patronized by Pope Clement VIII., by whoso direction he painted his prodigious work in the Sala Clementina, a landscape of grand scenery, sixty-eight feet Avide, in which is introduced the subject of St. Clement, with an anchor fastened to his neck, thrown into the sea. He also painted easel pictures of landscapes, some of which Anni- bale Carracci occasionally embellished with his admirable figures. Bril died at Rome in 1626. The following are some of his best paintings :

Amsterdam. Gallery. The Ruins. Antwerp „ The Prodigal Son. Berlin. „ Landscapes (four). Dresden. ,, Landscapes (two). Florence. Vffn. A Sea-piece. „ „ Landscapes {nine). „ Pitti Pal. Landscapes (two). Madrid Gallery. Landscapes (four). Munich. Gallery. Landscapes Ttwo). Paris. Louvre. Landscapes (eight). Petersburg. Hermitage. Landscapes (two). Rome. Palaces. Landscapes. Paulus Bril etched several landscapes in a masterly and spirited style, four of which are in the set published by his scholar Nieulandt. We have by him the following prints: Four Landscapes in the set published by Nieulandt. Two Landscapes ; marked Paulus Bril, inv. et fee, &c. A View in the Campagna, with Ruins ; P. Bril fee 159C. Another View in the same ; the companion.

BRILLON, —, was a native of France, and, according to Basan, engraved several plates after Watteau and other French painters.

BRINCKMANN, PHiLiPPHiERONYMns, (or Brinkman,) a German painter and engraver, was born at Spires in 1709. He was a pupil of J. G. Dathan. His favourite subjects were landscapes, but he also painted historical subjects and portraits ; in some of the latter he imitated the force and colouring of Rembrandt. He was painter to the Court, and keeper of the Gallery at Maimheim, where he died in 1761. In the Stadel at Frankfort is a 'Swiss Landscape' signed P. H. Brinckmann fecit, 1745. He etched some plates in a picturesque and spirited style. The following are his principal prints:

Philipp Hieronymus Brinkman ; sc ipse fee. David with the Head of Goliath. 1741. The Death of PjTamus. The Repose in Egypt ; Rembrandt inv.; Brinkman fee. The Resurrection of Lazarus ; Brinkman fee. Mary Magdalene at the Feet of our Saviour. Christ and the Samaritan Woman. The Presentation in the Temple ; P. J. Brinlcman inv. etfec. Six pleasing Landscapes ; Ph. Brink, del, etfec. 196

BRION, GusTAVE, was bom at Rothau in the department of the Vosges in 1824, and in 1841 entered at Strassburg the studio of Gabriel Guerin, with whom he remained three years ; he also received tuition from Andreas Friedrich, the sculptor ; but he soon afterwards went to Paris, where his first work appeared at the Salon in 1847 ; it was entitled ' Interior of a Farm at Dambaoh.' Six years later he gained a medal of the second class for his ' Sehlitteurs de la Foret-Noire ' and the ' Potato Harvest during an Inundation,' the former of which was subsequently burned at Strassburg by the Prussians. His fame was further estab- lished by his ' Le Train de Bois sur le Rhin ' in 1855, and from that time his works continued to increase in public favour, and gained considerable praise and recompense for their author. Brion received numerous medals in 1853, 1863, 1867, 1868, &c., and the decoration of the Legion of Honour in 1863. He died in Paris in 1877. With few exceptions, such as the ' Siege of a Town by Romans under Julius Cfesar,' painted on commis- sion for Napoleon III., and at the cost of much research to the artist, Brion rarely indulged in historical subjects. He delighted to represent peasants in their natural avocations : here they gather in their potatoes or chat by the village well ; there they conduct barges laden with wood down the river; now we see them at a marriage, now hearing mass or attending a burial. Putting aside several subjects drawn from Normandy and Brittany, from the Basque Provinces, and from a stay in Italy, Brion remained true to his love of Alsace, and it is of the doings of her peasantry that he tells us in his paintings. The following are his principal works :

Interior of a Farm at Dambach, Salon, 1847 ' Schhtteurs ' of the Black Forest, „ 1853 Potato Harvest during an Inundation, „ 1852 Wood-Barge on the Rhine ) „__• r, i-t-^- ,ors (mgraved by Jazet) ^"^ Exhibition, 1855 Burial in the Vosges, „ „ „ ' La Fete-Dieu,' „ „ „ The Miraculous AVell, „ „ „ Mountebank in the Middle Ages, Salon, 1857 Gathering Potatoes (in the Nantes Museum), „ „ A Church Porch, „ 1859 Burial on the Rhine, „ „ The Skittle-Player.s, „ A Protestant Marriage in Alsace (etched by Eajon) „ 1861 The Wedding Feast (etched by Bellin), ,, „ The Blessing, London Exhibition, 1862 The Pilgrims of St. OdUe, Salon, 1863 The End of the Deluge, „ 1864 ' La QuSte au Loup," » 1864 Reading the Bible in Alsace, „ 1868 A Wedding in Alsace, „ 1874 First Steps, „ 1876 The R^veil, Encampment of Pilgrims, „ 1877 Brion also illustrated ' Les Miserables ' of Victor Hugo, and 'Notre-Dame de Paris' (see ' Flemish and French Pictures,' by F. G. Stephens).

BRIOT, Antoin'e, a French engraver, flourished in the latter part of the 17th century. He engraved a set of different habiliments, from the designs of St. Igny.

BRIOT, Isaac, a French engraver and draughts- man, was born in 1585, and died in Paris in 1670. His plates are rather neatly executed, in the style of Wierix, and mostly from his own compositions, but the drawing is defective. The following may be noticed :

rOETRAITS. Cardinal de Richelieu. Cardinal d'Amboise, archbishop of Rouen.