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 BOSCH Sighted, Sleeping Savoyard Boy, Tinker, Old Shepherd (1873), The Poachers, Red Riding-Hood, Cinderella, the Favourites, Old Shepherd and Granddaughter, Idyl. Miiller, 67. BOSCH (Bos), HTERONYMUS (Hieron- ymus van Aeken), born at Bois-le-Duc, be- tween 1460 and 1464, died there in 1516. Flemish school ; history and genre painter; treated scriptural subjects in a fantastic and grotesque spirit ; great brilliancy of colour and delicacy of execution. His fame spread rapidly over the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain. Works : Adoration of Magi, t Temptation of St. Anthony (3), Fall of An- gels, Creation (?), Moral Fantasy, Madrid Museum ; Christ crowned with Thorns, Va- lencia Museum ; Temptation of St. Anthony, Antwerp Museum ; Fall of Angels, Brussels Museum ; Temptation of St. Anthony (2, ?), Museum, Vienna ; Last Judgment, Acad- emy, ib. ; Holy Family, Naples Museum. Allgem. d. Biog. iii. 184 ; Biog. nat. de Bel- gique, i. 149 ; Meyer, Ktinst. Lex., i. 90 ; Michiels, iv. 204 ; Rooses (Eeber), 75 ; W. & W., ii. 528. BOSEE, FRIEDRICH, born at Halbau, Silesia, in 1811, died in Dilsseldorf, Jan. 28, 1881. Genre and portrait painter ; pupil in 1831-34 of Dresden, then, till 1836, of the Berlin Academy, and, till 1841, of the Diisseldorf Academy. Works : Egmont and Clara, Faust and Gretchen, Present to the Bride, Brother Sleeps, Wendish Girls at Church, Little Flower-Girl, Girl Knitting, The Widow, Poor's Box, The Redeemer (1870) ; Shooting at the Shawfowl, Looking at the Pictures, Mr. Booker, New York. Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 343 ; Meyer, Conv. Lex. (1874), iii. 550 ; Wolfgang Miiller, Diissel- dorf K., 291. BOSSCHAERT (Bossaert), THOMAS WILLEBRORD, called Willeborts, born at Bergen-op-Zoom, in 1613, died in Antwerp, Jan. 23, 1654. Flemish school ; history and portrait painter ; pupil in Antwerp of Ge- rard Zegers, but became afterwards a suc- cessful imitator of Van Dyck, to whom some of his works are attributed ; master of Ant- werp guild in 1636, dean in 1650-51 ; di- rector of Academy at Antwerp, 1649. Works : The Angels announcing to Abraham the Birth of Isaac, Brussels Museum ; St. Sebas- tian and the Angel, Munich Gallery ; Mar- riage of St. Catherine, Berh'n Museum (?) ; Mary and St. Francis, Nuremberg Museum ; Elijah in the Desert, Vienna Museum. Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 750 ; Kramm, i. 134, vi. 1865; Michiels, ix. 71; Rooses (Reber), 328. BOSSCHE, BALTHASAR VAN DEN, born at Antwerp, baptised Jan. 6, 1681, died there, Sept. 8, 1715. Flemish school ; genre and portrait painter; pupil of Gerard Thomas. Work: Reception of Burgomas- ter in the Guild of Cross-Bowmen (1711), Antwerp Museum. Cat. du Musee d'Anvers (1874), 426. BOSSHARDT, KASPAR, born at Pfaffi- kon, Switzerland, in 1823. History painter ; pupil of Dtisseldorf Academy under Scha- dow and Schirmer ; paints chiefly subjects from local history. Studio in Munich. Works : Halwyl of Bern before Battle of Murten (1868), Basle Museum ; Death of Sickingen,Wengi of Solothurn placing him- self before a Cannon, Confederate Woman in Suabian War, The Favourite, Politicians in the Monastery (1879). Kunst-Chronik, iii. 66 ; Miiller, 68. BOSSUET, FRANCOIS, born at Ypres, East Flanders, Aug. 20, 1800. Architecture painter ; pupil of Brussels Academy ; trav- elled in the Netherlands, Germany, France, 184