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 BELLOWS, ALBERT F., born at Milford, Mass.; contemporary. Genre painter; studied in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, and painted in England and Wales. Elected an A. N. A. in 1859, and N. A. in 1861. In 1865 he visited England, where he turned his attention entirely to water colours. In 1868 was elected honorary member of the Royal Belgian Society of Water-Colourists. Studio in New York. Works in oil: Sorrows of Boyhood, First Pair of Boots, City Cousins, Lost Child, Approaching Footsteps, Sunday in Devonshire (1876); New England Village School (1878); Parsonage (1879); Building Air Castles (1880); Bird Song (1881); Near the Head of Tide Water, Country Byway (1882); Godalming—Surrey, England, Hillside (1883). Works in water colour: Notch at Lancaster (1867); Afternoon in Surrey (1868); Borders of the New Forest, Surrey Byway, Dark Entry—Canterbury, Reaper's Child, Study of a Head, New England Homestead, Devonshire Cottage, Autumn Woods, Village School (1878).—Tuckerman, 486; Art Journal (1877), 47.

BELLUCCI, ANTONIO, born at Pieve di Soligo in 1654, died there in 1726. Venetian school; pupil of the amateur Domenico Definico, a nobleman of Sebenico, and formed himself afterwards after Sebastiano Bombelli and Antonio Zanchi. He worked in Treviso, Venice, Vicenza, and Verona, and in 1709 was called to Vienna by Joseph I., who made him court painter. He painted the Emperor's portrait, and was employed also under Charles VI., but especially by Prince Liechtenstein, whose palace he decorated. From Vienna he was summoned to Düsseldorf, by the elector John William, after whose death, in 1716, he went to England, and painted for the court and several nobles. He seems to have returned to Italy soon after 1722, and in 1724 was also active again in Venice. He was one of the most prominent masters of the Venetian school before Tiepolo. Works: Marriage Ceremony of the Elector John William, Danaë, Augsburg Gallery; Lot and Daughters, Solomon sacrificing to the Gods, Schleissheim Gallery; Rebecca at the Well, Isaac, Finding of Moses, Pommersfelden Gallery; Mary and Elizabeth, St. John, Nuremberg Museum; Cupid and Psyche, Cupid and Venus, Munich Gallery; Venus feeding a Dove, Madonna, Dresden Gallery; Rape of Helen, Rape of the Sabine Women, Cassel Gallery; Groups of Children, Venus and Cupid, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 433; Nagler, Mon., i. 1785.

BELLUCCI, GIUSEPPE, Cavaliere, born in Florence in 1827, died there, Feb. 8, 1882. History painter; pupil of Bezzuoli and of Pollastrini; professor in Florence Academy; Knight of Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus. Works: Hagar, Paul before Poppæa, Death of Alessandro de' Medici (1865), Genoa Museum; Emanuel Philibert arranging an Alliance between Savoy and France against Austria (1870), Royal Collection; Finding of Manfred's Body (1880).—Kunst-Chronik, v. 145.

BELLUNELLO, ANDREA, born at S. Vito, Friuli, flourished 1460-1490 in Udine and Friuli. Venetian school. A provincial master, with whom art in Friuli may be said to have begun. His altarpieces show hard outlines, bony figures, and heavy colouring. Works: Crucifixion (1476), Town Hall, Udine; Madonna (1488 and 1490).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 435; C. & C., North Italy, ii. 176.

BELLY, LÉON ADOLPHE AUGUSTE, born at Saint-Omer, March 10, 1827, died in Paris, March 25, 1877. Landscape and portrait painter; pupil of Troyon and of T. Rousseau. Travelled in the East, and was one of the best French painters of Oriental life and scenery. Medals: 3d class, 1857, 1867; 2d class, 1859; 1st class, 1861; L. of Honour, 1862. Works: Forest of Fontainebleau, Shell Fishers of Normandy (1855); Village of Ghiseh, Desert of Nas