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 BELLOC BELLOC, JEAN HILAIRE, l*>rn at Florence ; Old Woman, Madrid Museum ; Nantes, Nov. 27, 1786, died in Paris, Dec. do., Stuttgart Museum. Meyer, Kuusi 9,1866. Genre and portrait painter ; pupil Lex., iii. 430 ; Zauetti, Pitt Venez., of Reguault and of Gros. Medal of 1st 513. class in 1810, after which exhibited pictures BELLOTTO, BERNARDO, bora in Ven- in nearly every salon till 1850. Was di- ice, Jan. 30, 1720, died in Warsaw, Oct 17, rector of the free school of design in Paris 1780. Venetian school ; landscape and more than forty years. L. of Honour, architecture painter ; nephew and pupil of 1846, Officer, 1864. Works : Death of Gaul Canaletto, by whose name he is sometimes (1810); Traveller in Egypt who has lost his known ; went to Rome, probably about Way (1812); Rest of Holy Family (1831) ; 1740, afterwards to Germany ; worked in Death of St. Louis, (1838, ordered by State); Munich, and afterwards iu Dresden, where Portraits of the Duchess de Berri (1824), he was employed by Count Bruhl and be- Count Boissy d'Anglas (1830), of Michelet came court painter to Augustus HL In (1845), and many others. Meyer, Kunst. 1758 he went to Vienna, and painted views Lex., iii. 427 ; Larousse. of the city and the imi>erial palaces until BELLOSIO, CARLO, born in Milan in 1762, when he executed paintings for Au- 1805, died at Bellaggia, Sept., 1859. History gustus HI. in Warsaw, before returning to painter ; pupil of Pelagio Palagi. Ho ad- Dresden, where he became a member of the hered to the classical style, but showed Academy in 1764 About 17G6 he is said early a certain power of invention, and after to have visited St Petersburg, and iu 1767 1829, without deserting his school, strong Warsaw, where he was court painter to individual talent. He excelled in fresco, King Stanislaus H. in 1770. At first an im- but executed also many drawings and oil itator of Caualetto, he developed later an paintings. He was overtaken by death independent style, marked by cool light when about to execute a colossal painting effects and great clearness in architectural for King Charles Albert, the Crossing of detaila Works : Two Views of Turin, Tu- the Beresina, to prepare studies for which rin Gallery ; Views of Varese, Brera, Milan ; he had made a journey to Russia in 1845. Views in Vienna and of Schonbrunn and Works: Scene from the Flood (1839-41), Schlosshof, Ruins of Thebes, Hungary, Vi- Institution of the Order of Aunuuciata enua Museum ; Views of Kiinigstein and (1842), Royal Palace, Turin ; Beheading of Pirua, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; View St. John, fresco (1830), S. Protaso, Milan ; of Munich (probably also four Views in Allegory, Casino della nobile Societ.'i, Milan. Venice, ascribed to Antonio Canaletto), Meyer, Kunst. Lex., iii. 429. Munich Gallery ; Views in Dresden and BELLOTTI, PIETRO, born at Volzano Pirna, Venice, Verona, etc. (38), Dresden in 1627, died at Ganguano in 1700. Vene- Gallery ; two landscapes, Berlin Museum ; tiaii school ; pupil of Michele Ferrabosco, Views in Venice (3), Cassel Gallery ; Views in Venice, where he went at twenty. He of Ducal Palace and Piazzeta in Venice, faithfully imitated nature with great minute- Darmstadt Gallery ; Ducal Palace iu Venice ness of detail, then very unusual. This, (ascribed to which madehiina favourite portrait painter, Canaletto), is observable in his characteristic figures Stiidel Gal- from low life, but in historical scenes he is lery, Frank- not free from the mannerism of his time. ; fort ; View of the Brenta, Brussels Museum; He was much employed by foreign courts, two Views of Rome, Amsterdam Museum ; Works : Half figure of Old Woman, Museo Rialto, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Meyer, Civico, Venice ; Portrait of himself, Uffizi, Kuust. Lex., UL 437. in