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 BENJAMIN Six Scenes in Life of Christ, S. Niccolo de' Mendicanti, Venice ; Christ before Pilate, Last Supper, S. Luca, ib. Several in other churches, ib. Meyer, Kuust. Lex., iii. 533. BENJAMIN-CONSTANT, JEAN JO- SEPH, bom in Par- is, June 10, 184.5. Genre painter ; pu- pil of C'abanel and of cole des Beaux Arts ; usually paints Oriental .subjects. Medals : 3d class, 1875 ; 2d class, 1870 ; 3d class, 1878; L. of Hon- our, 1878; Officer, 1884. Works: Hamlet and the King (1869); Too Late (1870) ; Samson and Delilah (1872); Women of Riff, Moorish Butchers at Taugiers (1873); Street Corner in Tan- giers, Square in Tangiers (1874); Morocco Prisoners (Fletcher Harper, New York ; sold in 1884 for $1,400); Women of Harem in Morocco (1875); Entrance of Mohammed II into Constantinople, May 29, 1453 (1876) ; Thirsty Prisoners in Morocco, Harem in Morocco (1878) ; Terraces at Evening, Emir's Favourites (1879) ; Last Rebels (1880), Luxembourg Museum ; Ca- liph's Recreations, Herodias (1881); Christ in the Tomb, Da;/ after Victory at the Al- hambra (1882) ; Tahamy the Caul (1883) ; Les Chcrifas (1884) ; Justice of the Cherif Moorish Spain in 15th century (1885). Portraits of Emmanuel Arago and others. BENJAMIN, SAMUEL GREEN WHEELER, born at Argos, Greece, in 1837, son of an American missionary to the Levant. Landscape and marine painter ; studied drawing and water-colour painting with Carlo Briudisi of the Spanish and Ital- ian school ; came to America and became a pupil of S. L Gerry and W. E. Norton. Professional life spent in Boston and New York Mr. Benjamin has illustrated many works of which he is author, and at one time contributed to the Illustrated London News. Is at present (ISSS) United State* Minister to Persia. Works: Porta da Cruz Madeira (1876), Philadelphia ; Gibraltar. Pico Azores, White Maud, Marino Gallery, London ; Daybreak off the Corbieu, After the Storm, On the Breakers, Twilight on the Grand Banks (1879); Shark's Nose- Maine (1880); Among the Breakers (1881); Stormy Sunrise Manchester by the Sea (1882). BEXKERT, EMERICH MARIA, born iii Vienna, March 27, 1825, died there, Jan. 21, 1855. Genre, landscape, and portrait painter ; pupil of Academy of Design, Pesth, then in Vienna of Schrodl and Wald- miiller. Works : Poachers on the Track (1850); Temptation, Alpine Herdswoinen find a Dead Huntsman, Sermon (1851); Chamois Hunt, Rest, Mother's Love, Love 'a Sacrifice (1852); Adventure in the Moun- tains, Mist, View in Styria, Expectation, Ideal Landscape (1853);" A Puszta (1854); numerous portraits ; Artist's Portrait, Na- tional Gallery, Pesth. Meyer, KQnst Lex., iii. 538 ; Wurzbach, L 276. BEXXER, EMMANUEL, born at Mul- house, Alsace, in March, 1836. Genre, portrait, and still-life painter ; pupil of Eck. Medal, 3d class, 1881. W 7 orks : Game and Fruits (1868) ; Guitar Player (1873) ; Rev- erie, Rubinello (1874); Abandoned (1875); Madeline, The Captives (1876) ; Venus and Adonis, Family of the Stone Age (1877); Lacustral Family (1878); Bathern, Swans (1880); Repose (1881); Three Graces (1883); Innocence (1884); Nymphs (1885). BENNER, JEAX, born at Mulhouse, Al- sace, in March, 1836. Genre, portrait, and still-life painter ; twin brother of Emmanuel B.; pupil of Eck and of Pils. Medal, 2d class, 1872. Works: Petite Falle de Capri, Flowers and Fruita (1868) ; Margherita, Luisella (1870); After a Storm at Capri (1872); After Baptism, New Years Serenade (1874); Trappistin Prayer (1875); Athe- nian Women surprised by the Pelasgi of 1SI