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 Among Thorns (1863-64); Hay Harvest (1865); Marshes of Ostia (1867); Repose (1868); Aspromonte (1868); Suez Canal, Lion of the Desert, Arrival of Arab Merchants at Ghizeh, Bedouin Tents at Ismailia, View of the Pyramids, The Nile near Elephantiné, Sunset in the Desert (1869); Camel Buyers at Cairo, Rest in a Palm Grove, Rest in the Plain of Sivert, Caravan in the Desert, Sycamores of Upper Egypt.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 498.

BENCI, GINEVRA. See Monaca, La.

BENCZUR, GYULA (Julius), born at Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, Jan. 28, 1844. History painter; pupil, from 1861, of Munich Academy under Hiltensperger and Anschütz, then in 1869 of Piloty; travelled in Austria-Hungary, Southern Germany, France, and Upper Italy; though invited to Weimar and Prague, preferred to settle at Munich, where he became instructor in 1875 and professor in 1880 in the Academy; now director of Pesth Academy. Works: Farewell of Ladislaus Hunyady (1867), Pesth Museum; Arrest of Rákóczy in 1701 (Johnston sale, New York, 1876, $3,750); Scene from Hamlet (1869); Louis XV. in the Boudoir of Dubarry; Family of Louis XVI. during the Assault on Versailles (1872), D. O. Mills, New York; Baptism of St. Stephen (1875), Pesth Museum; Ladies resting in the Woods, The Almsgiver (1877); Bacchante (1881); Deserted, Hungarian Insurance Convention in 1857 (1883).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 502; Müller, 40; Kunst-Chronik, iv. 86, vi. 113, ix. 437, 492, xi. 370, 531, 563, xii. 709; Illustr. Zeitg. (1878), 211; (1881), i. 8.

BENDEL, HANS SIGMUND, born at Schaffhausen, Oct. 18, 1814, died there, Nov. 28, 1853. History and genre painter; pupil in Munich of Kaulbach and Schlotthauer; visited the Tyrol in 1837 and Italy in 1838, and took part in the Swiss campaign of 1847. Best known by his designs for illustrated works. Works: Four Scenes from Swiss History (1852-53); Illustrations to Goethe and Schiller Gallery, to Hebel's Poems and to Pestalozzi's Lienhard and Gertrud.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 503.

BENDEMANN, EDUARD (JULIUS FRIEDRICH), born in Berlin, Dec. 3, 1811. History and portrait painter; pupil of Schadow, whom he followed to Düsseldorf in 1827 and to Italy in 1830. After his return he at once established his fame by his Jews in Exile (1832, Reichartz Gallery, Cologne); obtained the great gold medal in Paris, in 1836, and after living for two years in Berlin was appointed professor at the Dresden Academy. Between 1840 and 1855, he decorated the throne and ballrooms at the royal palace in Dresden with frescos. In 1859-67 he was director of the Düsseldorf Academy, where (1861-66), as well as at Naumburg and Berlin, he painted several monumental works. He is member of many German Academies, and of the Institut de France, has had the degree of Doctor conferred upon him by the philosophical faculty of the Berlin University, and is decorated with many medals and orders. Works: Boaz and Ruth (1830); Girls at Well (1833); Servian Princesses (1834); Jeremiah among the Ruins of Jerusalem (1836), Royal Palace, Hanover; Harvest (1836); Shepherd and Shepherdess (1845); Jeremiah at the Fall of Jerusalem (1872), National Gallery, Berlin; Penelope (1877), Antwerp Academy; Three Caravan Scenes (1880); Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1882); Emperor Lothair, Römer, Frankfurt; Portrait of Artist's Wife (1847), Portraits of Heinrich Brockhaus (1851), W. Schadow (1861), Antwerp Academy; Prince Anton