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 with success in the island of Rhodes, at the time of Anacreon, who lived about 500 years before our era. That poet, in his twenty-eighth and twenty- ninth Odes, mentions the practice of the art called encaustic painting, and that it was effected by mixing wax with the colours.

BULLINGER, Johann Balthasab, a Sviss land- scape painter, was bom at Langnau, in the canton of Zurich, in 1713. He was first a scholar of John Simler, but afterwards went to Venice, where he studied two years under Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. He first attempted historical painting, but his natural genius led him to landscapes, and he be came very eminent in that branch of the art. He afterwards passed some time at Amsterdam, where he appears to have studied with attention the works of the best artists of the Dutch school, par- ticularly Both and Berchem, whose manner he imitated. He died at Zurich in 1793. He etched several plates in a free, painter-like style, the fol- lowing being the principal :

The Portrait of J. B. Bullinger ; se ipse fee. A Frontispiece, with a number of Genii. Two Mountainous Landscapes, with figures. A set of fifty Landscapes ; some from his own designs, and the others after J. F. Ennels and F. Meyer. A Head; after Le Brun; engraved for Lavater's "Work.

BDJIEL, Michael, (or Bimel,) was a German engraver of little celebrity. He engraved several plates, representing Saints, and other devotional subjects, which are executed with the graver, with sufficient neatness, but in a stiff, tasteless style.

BUMOT,, was a French historical painter, who was called ' The Apelles of Nevers.' He was a native of Nevers, and worked at Bourges in 1576, for the fetes held upon the occasion of the entry of the Duke of Alenjon.

BDNBURY, Henry William, a designer of humorous subjects and caricatures, was the son of Sir William Bunbury of Mildenhall, Suffolk. He was bom in 1750, and was an occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy, and contributed to Boy- dell's 'Shakespeare.' His 'Florizel and Autolycus changing garments ' is in the South Kensington Museum. His ' Hints to Bad Horsemen ' obtained for him great popularit3', and the praise of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He died at Keswick in 1811.

BUNDSEN, Jess, architectural and landscape painter and etcher, was bom at Assens in 1766. He attended the Academy of Copenhagen in 1786, and studied also in Dresden, after which he became a teacher of drawing and a painter in Hamburg and Altona. He died at the latter town in 1829. He chiefly painted views in the vicinity of these places, as well as interiors of churches. He etched several plates in outline, and also practised litho- graphy to some extent.

BDNEL, Franqois, a French historical pamter, flourished at Blois in 1550. He was a distinguished artist, who painted many religious subjects for churches.

BDNEL, Jacques, son and pupil of Francois Bunel, was bom at Blois in 1558. He studiecl at Rome imder Federigo Zuccaro, and on returning to France w.is made painter to the king, and worked with Pourbus and Toussaint du Breuil in the small gallery of the Louvre, burnt in 1661. He was an artist of great merit, and held in much esteem by Henri IV., who employed him at Fontainebleau and other royal residences. He painted 'The Descent of the Holy Ghost ' for the chapel of that order in the church of the Grands Augustins at Paris, and for the church of the Feuillants an ' Assumption of the Virgin,' now in the Museum at Bordeaux, both of which pictures have been highly praised. Philip II. of Spain, bj- whom likewise he was esteemed, commissioned him to paint for the cloister of the Escorial forty pictures, all of which have now disappeared. He died in Paris in 1614.

BUNNEY, John Wharlton, painter, bom in 1808, was an English artist pracrising at Venice. In 1873, 1879, and 1881 he exhibited views of Venice at the Koyal Academy. For the last four years of his life he was engaged in an elaborate and minutely-finished transcript from the west front of St. Mark's, on a commission from Mr. Ruskin. He died at Venice, Sept. 23, 1882.

BUXNICK, Jacob van, was the brother of Jan van Bunnick, and paLated battle-pieces with some reputation, but was greatly inferior to hie brother. He died in 1725.

BUNNICIv. Jan van, a Dutch landscape painter, was born at Utrecht in 1654. He was a scholar of Hermann Saftleven, under whom he studied three jears ; he afterwards visited Italy. He passed some time at Genoa, where he formed an acquaint- ance with Tempesta, by whom he was assisted in his studies. On his arrival at Rome he found several of the artists of his cour.try, particularly Abraham Genoels and Ferdinand Voet, who re- ceived him with kindness. On leaving Rome he went to Modena, and the duke appointed him his principal painter, and he passed eight years in his service. On his return to Holland he was employed by King William TIL, then Prince of Orange, to ornament his palace at Loo. He died in 1727.

BUONACCORSI, Pietro, (called Perino del Vaga, after one of his instructors in art,) was born at a village near Florence in 1500 of very indigent parents, whom he lost while he was still young. He was taken under the protection of an artisan named Andrea de' Ceri, whose house was frequented by several young artists of Florence. At an early age Perino showed a decided inclination for art, and when he was eleven years old was placed under the tuition of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, by whose instraction he became an expert and correct de- signer. He had made considerable progress, when his talents were noticed by Vaga, who conducted him in 1515 to Rome, where he had an opportimity of studying after the antique, and the works of Michelangelo. His merit became known to Giulio Romano and Penni, by whom he was recommended to Raphael, who employed him in the execution of his designs in the Loggie of the Vatican. Such was the force and variety of his powers, that he was equally successful io assisting Giovanni da Udine in the stucco and grotesque ornaments, Polidoro da Caravaggio in his antique subjects in chiaroscuro, and in executing the Biblical subjects from the designs of Raphael. He is ranked by Vasari as the greatest designer of the Florentine school after Michelangelo ; and the partiality of tliat biographer does not hesitate to pronounce him the most distinguished of the disciples of RaphaeL After the death of that master he was employed by Leo X. and Clement VII., in conjunction ^vith Giulio Romano and Penni, to finish the great works in the Vatican. One of his earliest productions was a picture painted for the church of San Mar- cello, representing the ' Creation of Eve,' in which he shows with what success he had studied the works of Michelangelo.