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 BYLE11T BYLERT, JAN VAN, horn at Utrecht, died there after 1669. Dutch school ; genre painter, pupil of Abraham Bloemaert ; went via France to Rome, where he worked for a number of years; returned to Utrecht about 1630 and became master of the guild ; in 1632 and repeatedly afterward mentioned as its dean. His pictures are rare. Works : Family Pictures (3), Utrecht Museum ; La- ban and Rachel, Young Women with Ring, Rotterdam Museum ; Young Woman, Cassel ! Gallery; Pancake Eater,Girl counting Money | (1626), Girl with Zither, Brunswick Gallery; ! Family Scene, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; St. Sebastian, Harrach Gallery, ib. Bode, ' Studien, 170 ; Kramm, i. 198 ; Riegel, Bei- '' trage, ii. 183. BYSS, JOHANN RUDOLF, bom at Solo- j thurn, Switzerland, in 1660, died in Wtirz- burg in 1738. German school; history, land- scape, and animal painter ; went to Italy about 1700, and was called to Vienna in 1704, by Leopold I., to paint the ceiling of the great audience room. Lothar Franz Ton j Schonborn, Elector of Mayence, and Prince Bishop of Bamberg, employed him about 1712 to paint at Castle Gaibach, and after the building of Castle Pommersfelden, made him supervisor of its picture gallery. After his patron's death he lived at Wiirzburg. , Works : Allegory, Paradise (2) with many Birds and Animals, Pommersfelden Gallery. Others in Bamberg, Wiirzburg, Schleiss- heim, and Vienna. Allgem. d. Biog., iii. 679. CABANEL, ALEXANDRE, born at Montpellier, Sept. 28, 1823. Histo- ry, genre and portrait painter ; pupil of Picot ; won the grand prix de Rome in 1845 ; medal, 2d class, 1852; 1st class, 1855; ; of honour, 1865, 1867, 1878 ; L. of Honour, 1855 ; Officer, 1864 ; Commander, 1884 ; Member of Institute, 1863. Professor in the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He painted pre- vious to 1861 in the classical style of David, Works : Agony of Christ (1844) ; Death of Moses (1852), Corcoran Gallery, Washing- ton ; Chapel-Mas- t e r' a Window (1859) ; Expulsion from Paradise (1863), Maximili- aneurn, Munich; Giacomina (1872) ; John the Baptist (1874); Apotheo- sis of St. Louis Vi-Y &> I (1855), Death of Francesca da Ri- mini and Paolo Malatesta (1870), Rape of the Nymph, Birth of Venus (1863), Thamar (1875), Luxembourg ; Portia in Merchant of Venice (1881); Venetian Lady of 6th century (1882); portraits of Rouher (1861), Napoleon IH. (1864), Mr. Mackay (1879), and others. Works in United States : Lucretia and Tar- quinius Sextus (1877), Ruth and Boaz, Sam- uel Hawk Collection, New York ; Shulamile (1876), Portrait of a Lady, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York ; Florentine Poet, Desdemona, J. H. Warren, Hoosac Falls, N. Y. ; Flor- entine Poet, St. Aglaia and St. Boniface, Is- rael Corse, New York ; Angel of the Avo Maria, D. T. Buzby, Baltimore ; Ginevra Amieri, Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland; Pan- dora (1873), Portrait of Mile. Nilsson, W. T. Walters, Baltimore ; Eve after the Fall, H. L. Dousman, St. Louis ; Eve after the Ex- pulsion, S. A. Coale, St. Louis ; Penelope, Mrs. C. Crocker, San Francisco ; Italian Maiden, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia ; Evening Star, W. P. Beinent, Philadelphia ; Phcedra, Mr. Leiter, Chicago; Phrodra (1880), J. T. Martin, Brooklyn ; Magdalen at the Tomb, C. P. Huntington, New York ; Echo, C. S. Smith, New York ; Samson and Deli- lah, Win. Astor, New York ; Pia de Toloniei, C ABANEL 187* W. RVanderbilt, New York; Birth of Venus, H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia ; do., J. Wolfe, of which no trace is visible in his later work. | New York ; MarguSrite, J. T. Raynor, New 5