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 painter; pupil of National Academy and of J. H. Wright, later studied in Paris and Venice. Has lived and painted in New York, Paris, Venice, and Rome; and sketched in Egypt and Syria. Elected an A. N. A. in 1862. Studio in Florence since 1871; in Rome in 1883. Works: Cloud Towers, Strayed Maskers, (1873); Interior of St. Mark's—Venice; Reverential Anatomist (1876), St. Luke's Hospital, New York; Bazaar at Cairo, Hay Boats, Peasants of Cadore at Religious Worship, Market-Place—Egypt (1877); Study of Girl in Blue, Suydam Collection, National Academy; Hashish Smokers—Jerusalem, Slave's Tower (1878); Thoughts in Exile, Mrs. M. O. Roberts, New York; Reverie; Making the Best of It, Artists' Fund Society; Dead Calm on the Hill; Fire-Worshippers (1879); Mountain Torrent (1881); Distinguished Company in Titian's Garden, State Secret in Venice (1882); Spring, Art and Love, Afternoon on the Lagoon, Ariadne (1883).

BENT, JOHANNES VAN DER, born in Amsterdam about 1650 (?), died in 1690. Dutch school; landscape painter; pupil of Philips Wouwerman and of Adriaan van de Velde, but appears rather as a follower of Berchem. Works: Italian Landscape with Shepherds, Rotterdam Museum; Landscape with Span of Oxen, Stockholm Museum; two Landscapes with Figures and Cattle, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. By P. Bent, otherwise unknown, an Annunciation to the Shepherds, in the Brunswick Gallery.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 556; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 283.

BENTELE, FIDELIS, born at Tettnang, Würtemberg, April 8, 1830. History painter; pupil of Munich Academy, and, under Bernhard Neher, of Stuttgart Art-school, then studied in Italy, 1856-59. Since 1865 professor of drawing at the school of architecture in Stuttgart. Works: The Good Samaritan, Allegory on Poetry and Music, Stuttgart Gallery; others in churches at Stuttgart, Cannstatt, Ravensburg, Tettnang, etc.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 557.

BENTELE, MAX, born at Lindenberg, Bavaria, July 20, 1825. History painter; pupil of Munich Academy, under Zimmermann, Schlotthauer and H. von Hess, then under Schnorr and Schwind; in 1850-52 painted under Schraudolph seven frescos in the cathedral at Speyer, and in 1861-63 under Steinle in the staircase of the Cologne Museum. Works: Ascension (1864); Twelve Apostles (1865); Coronation of the Virgin (1868-69); Peter tending the Flock, Delivery of the Keys, and three other pictures (1872-73); Ascension (1874); Altarpiece (1878); two Ceiling-Paintings (1881); Glorification of Christ (1882).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 557.

BENTIVOGLIO, GUIDO, Cardinal, portrait, Anton Van Dyck, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 4 ft. 3 in.; signed, dated 1623. Full length, in cardinal's robes, seated in an arm-chair before a table, holding a paper with both hands. One of the painter's masterpieces. Carried to Paris; restored in 1816. Engraved by Piccianti; Meyssens; and in bust by J. Morin; Masquelier fils. Etched by Gaujean (1882).—Smith, iii. 46; Guiffrey, 54; Filhol, iv. Pl. 245.

BENVENUTI, GIO. BATTISTA See Ortolano.

BENVENUTI, PIETRO, born at Arezzo, Jan. 8, 1769, died in Florence, Feb. 3, 1844. History painter; studied in Florence after Andrea del Sarto and in Rome after Raphael; adhered in his early works to manner of David, but developed an independent style, and, with Camuccini, was looked upon as one of the first of modern Italian painters. Lived, after 1805, in Florence, where he became director of the Academy. Works: Judith with Head of Holofernes, Arezzo Cathedral; Ugolino (1822); Death of Priam, Oath of the Saxons after the Battle of Jena, Delphic Sibyl, Death of St. Chrysogonus, Ravenna Cathedral. Works in fresco: Myth of Hercules, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Scenes from Old and New Testament, Chapel of S. Lorenzo, Florence.—Meyer, Con. Lex., iii. 182.