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 Naples, Chartres Museum; Joseph led into Captivity, Daphnis and Chloe, Crow Lake (1864); Gypsies Travelling (1865); Road from Chateldon to Montpeyroux, Banks of the Thérain (1866); Arabs running from a Fire, Saw-mill on the River Sillet (1868); The Last Fine Days, Environs of Medeah (1869); Mountains of Lachant (1870); Road from Boghar to Boussaada, Environs of Cassis (1873); Environs of Allevard (1874); From Constantine to Batna (1875); Arabs Looking for Camping Ground (1876); Vivarais, Road from Medeah to Boghar (1879); Environs of Toulon, Across Algeria (1880); Ravine of Constantine, Arabian Improviser, Lachaux Road (1881); View in Trani, Saw-*mill in Valley of Thérain (1882); Kabylia, Environs of Puy-Guillaume (1883); Castle of Chateldon, Approach to Biskra (1885).—Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 768, 777; Müller, 39; Vapereau, 175.

BELLER, ALEXANDER IVANOVICH, born in St. Petersburg, Aug. 5, 1804, died there, Feb. 25, 1870. Pupil of Venezianoff and of the St. Petersburg Academy. Was a deaf mute, and devoted his whole life to the art education of deaf mutes. Works: Room in a Palace, Peasant's Room (1833), Twelve Pictures of Saints for Deaf-Mute Asylum, and Obuchow Hospital, St. Petersburg.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 375.

BELLERMANN, FERDINAND, born at Erfurt, March 14, 1814. Landscape painter; pupil, under Blechen, of the Berlin Academy and of Schirmer, visited with Friedrich Preller in 1839 Rügen, in 1840 the Netherlands and Norway, and in 1842, on Humboldt's suggestion, was sent to South America by King Frederick William IV. He returned in 1845, with three hundred sketches in oil and drawings, now in the National Gallery, Berlin, devoted himself to teaching in 1849, visited Italy in 1853-54, and became professor at the Berlin Academy in 1866. Since his second journey to Italy in 1877, he has alternately treated Italian and Tropical subjects. Works: Stubenkammer on Rügen, Norwegian Landscape, Bellevue Castle, Berlin; Guachero Cave in Venezuela, Replica, with Humboldt and Missionaries, National Gallery, Berlin; Plateau of Merida, Coast of Laguayra, Lake Urno, three Tropical Wood Landscapes, Sierra Nevada, Abrida in the Andes, Valley of Caracas, Falls of Terni, Castel Gandolfo, Palace of Queen Joanna, Giant's Grave and Sacrificial Stone, New Museum, Berlin.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 376; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 328; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iv. 118.

BELLET DU POISAT, PIERRE ALFRED, born at Bourgoin, Isère, Oct. 5, 1823, died in Paris in Sept., 1883. History, landscape, and marine painter, pupil of Drolling and of Flandrin; entered École des Beaux Arts in 1845, followed at first the style of Delacroix, later that of the Venetians, and has more recently, in landscape and marine painting, imitated the Dutch. Works: Marguérite in Church (1857); Entry of the Hussites into the Council of Basle (1859); Jews in Captivity (1868); Christ served by Angels, Christ walking on the Waters (1875); La Nuit dans le Port (1879); Mill of Dordrecht, Canal near Scheveningen, Rural Wedding, Fight of the Centaurs with the Lapiths (1880); Canal in the Dunes (1881); Banks of the Meuse, Marine (1882); Entrance to the Harbour of Marseilles (1883).—Meyer, Gesch., 288; Larousse.

BELLEVOIS, J., second half of 17th century, died in Hamburg in 1684 (?). Dutch school; marine painter; mentioned as settled in Hamburg about 1673-80. Works: Calm Sea with Vessels, Madrid Museum; Slightly Agitated Sea (1659), Dr. A. Bredius, Amsterdam; Storm on Rocky Coast (1664), Brunswick Gallery; Similar subject, Consul Weber, Hamburg.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 378; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 410.

BELLINI, GENTILE, born probably at Padua in 1426-7, died in Venice, Feb. 23, 1507. Venetian school; eldest son and pupil of Jacopo Bellini, in whose studio he and his brother Giovanni laboured until Jacopo's death. Gentile probably settled in