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 BENZ BENZ, SEVERIN, born at Marbach, to a Young Girl (1836) ; Music Lesson St. Gall, Switzerland, March 14, 1834. His- (1837); Return to the Country (1838); tory, portrait, genre and landscape painter ; i Christ Asleep (1839); Consequences of Se- pupil of Munich Academy, under Anschiitz ! duction (1840) ; Guardian Angel (1846) ; and Piloty, then made a study trip to Ven- Peasant Family (1849) ; The Rich and Poor ice and North Italy. His religious paintings Children (1852); Children Surprised by are elevated in conception and brilliant in ' Rain (1853); Sleep, The Professor (1857); colour. Works : Christ Appearing to Mag- i Repentant Fisherman, Fruit-Seller (1859). dalen (1857); Bandits in Ambush, Mother's His daughter Susanne Estelle (Mme. Apoil), Happiness (1862) ; St. Joseph, Madonna, distinguished herself as a flower and fruit Resurrection (1863) ; Come, ye that are painter. Medal, 2d class, 1858. Meyer, heavy-laden ! Descent from the Cross j Kiinst. Lex., iii. 570 ; Larousse, ii. 563. (1866); Crucifixion, Christ and the Woman BERANGER, CHARLES, born at Sevres, of Samaria (1869) ; Landscape at Wallensee ; Nov. 21, 1816, died in Paris, May 15, 1853. Flight into Egypt (1879) ; Christ on the Still-life, animal, genre, and portrait paint- Cross (1883). In fresco: Siege of Carmagn- er ; son of preceding; pupil of Ecole des ola by the Elector Max Emanuel in 1691 > Beaux Arts and of Delaroche. Medals : 3d (1865), National Museum, Munich. Meyer, class, 1839 ; 2d class, 1840. Works : Kitch- Kiinst. Lex., iii. 565. en Interior (1837) ; Scene in Life of Hen- BENZON, CHRISTIAN ALBRECHT ; riette of France (1839); Peasant Woman at VON, born in Copenhagen, June 11, 1816, the Well, Maid watering Horse, Laundress died in Paris, Sept. 30, 1849. Historical and i (1840); Fruit-seller's Booth (1842); View of genre painter; pupil of Copenhagen Acad-jMarcho des Jacobins, Dog Portraits (1846); emy ; went to Diisseldorf in 1840 or 1841, Dog and Game (1848) ; Dogs Running, to Paris in 1845, where he received a gold < Working Horses, Child with Chickens medal from Louis Philippe. Works : Last I (1851) ; Two Roosters (1853). Meyer, KUnst. Confession (1842); Sinner on his Deathbed, Lex., iii. 571. Death of Don Juan ; Death of St. Canut BERANGER, EMILE (JEAN BAPTISTE (1844) ; Norman Chief taking Italian City j ANTOINE), born at Sevres, Aug. 30, 1814. (1846); Louis IV. of France recognizing at Rouen Richard I. and Descendants as Dukes Genre painter ; brother of preceding ; first employed in decorating porcelain at Suvres of Normandy, Town Hall, Rouen. Weil- with his father, Antoine B. His favourite bach, 56. subjects are young women of the working BERANGER, ANTOINE, born in Paris,, class in pretty costumes, fresh and clear in May 19, 1785, died at Sevres, April 21, colour. Medals : 3d class, 1846 ; 2d class, 1867. History, genre, and portrait painter ; 1848. Works : Simon Memmi painting studied under several masters, and was one | Laura (1840) ; Seamstress, Young Girl of the best artists of the older school. For boiling Milk (1846); Day after the Ball, years employed at the porcelain factory at Sevres, and contributed largely to its ce- Reading Lesson, Hiding a Letter (1848); Order and Disorder (1863); First Joys lebrity. Medals : 3d class, 1839 ; 2d class,, (1864) ; The New Maid (1866) ; Hopeful 1840 ; L. of Honour, 1841. Works : Wo- Lad (1868) ; Young Mother, Wm. H. Van- man and Children at Husband's Grave derbilt, New York ; Bouquet, C. Parsons, (1814); Autumn (1819); Wandering Musi- St. Louis; Voice of the Shell, T. Dolan, cians ; Rural Wedding (1822) ; Seduction ! Philadelphia ; Fair Oyster-Opener, Glass of (1824); Susanna (1827) ; Young Shepherd Lemonade, Where has it Gone ? Mrs. R L. Asleep, Wounded Traveller (1833); Prisoner [ Stuart, New York; Consoling the Widow, (1835) ; Old Man interpreting a Holy Book C. P. Huntington, New York ; Madam's