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 13EIITIX Biclault. Turning from the classic and tra- ditional style to nature, he successfully endeavoured to unite truth in detail with breadth of general effect. Works : Meeting of Cimabue and Giotto (1827), Christ on Mount of Olives (1837) ; Sources of the Al- pheus (1853), View of Olevano, Old Tombs on the Nile, Forest of Fontainebleau. Ch. Blanc, Artistes de mon Temps, 249 ; La- rousse, ii. 621; Meyer, Gesch., 766. BERTIN, JEAN VICTOR, born in Paris, March 20, 1775, died there, June 11, 1842. Landscape painter ; pupil of Valenciennes. Medal, 1st class, in 1808 ; L. of Honour, 1817. He was the master of Cogniet, Bosse- lier, Corot, Enfantin, and Roqueplau. Works: Festival of Pan, Offering to Venus, Cicero on his Return from Exile, Flight of Angelica, Festival of Bacchus, Arrival of Napoleon at Ettlingen. His Temple of Minerva at Pheneus is in the Louvre. Villot, Cat. Louvre; Ottley. BERTIN, NICOLAS, born in Paris in 1667, died there, April 11, 1736. Pupil of Vernansalle, of Jouvenet, and of Bon Bou- logne. When eighteen years old he took the first prize for painting for his Building of the Ark, and he was sent as a pensioner of the king to Rome, where he resided four years. He became a member of the Acad- emy in 1705, professor in 1715, and adjunct rector in 1733. Works : St. Philip baptiz- ing the Eunuch, Hercules delivering Prome- theus (1703), Louvre ; Chastity of Joseph, Susanna at the Bath, Amsterdam Museum ; Man with the Gourd, Gardener and the Bear (2 illustrations of La Fontaine's fables), Dresden Gallery. Villot, Cat. Louvre. BERTINELLI. See AlbertineW. BERTLING, KARL, born at Meppen, Hanover ; contemporary. History and por- trait painter ; pupil of the Diisseldorf Acad- emy under Schadow and Bendemann ; be- came first known through his Death of Abel, and is now chiefly reputed for his masterly portraits. Works : Death of Abel ; (Edipus led by Antigone ; Resurrection (1869); Lore- ley; Night and Morning (1875), Villa Boker, Bonn. Elustr. Zeitg. (1876), i. 294. BERTO DI GIOVANNI, flourished in 1497-1523. Roman school of Perugia ; called also Bertus Joannis Marci. Pupil of Perugino at same time with Raphael, who engaged him in 1516 as his assistant to paint a picture of the Coronation of the Virgin for the convent of S. M. di Monteluce, near Perugia, which was finished after Raphael's death by Giulio Romano and II Fattore (1525) and is now in the Gallery of the Vati- can. Berto painted for the predella three subjects the Birth (dated 1525), Marriage, and Death of the Virgin, and a fourth rep- resenting the Presentation in the Temple. The predella of the principal altarpiece in S. Giuliana, Perugia, is perhaps also by him. Lanzi, i. 348; Ch. Blanc, Ecole ombrienne; I C. & C., Italy, iii. 346 ; Mttntz, Raphael, 622. BERTON, ARMAND, born in Paris ; con- temporary. History and portrait painter ; pupil of A. Millet and Cabanel. Medal, 3d j class, 1882. Works : Evening (1880); Por- traits (1881) ; Eve, Woman with the Rose Seated upon Antique Ruins (1884); Portrait (1885;. BERTRAND, GEORGES, born in Paris in 1849. Genre and portrait painter ; pupil of Yvon, Barrias, and Bonnat. Medal, 2d class, 1881. Works : The Miser (1876); Fall- ing Leaves (1877); The Leap from the Leu- cadian Rock (1878) ; Slave's Leisure (1879); Patrie! (1881); Spring Passing (1883). Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 101. BERTRAND, JAMES, born at Lyons in 1825. History painter ; pupil of Perin and of Orsel, then studied in Rome ; a skilful, careful painter, with a graceful, harmonious style and much religious sentiment. Medals: 3d class, 1861, 1863, 1869, 1878 ; L. of Hon- our, 1876. Works : Idyl (1857); St. Benedict taking Communion (1859), Lyons Society of Art; Conversion of SL Thais (1861), Lyons Museum; Brothers of Death taking away a Murdered Man in the Campagna (1863), Lyons Museum ; Women of Alvito on a Pil- grimage, Diogenes at La'is's House (1863) ; Mary the Egyptian Repentant (1864) ; Eini- 151
 * (1882); A Grasshopper (1883); Modern Fable