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 *bigny. Medals: 3d class, 1875; 2d class, 1877. Works: Dessert, Lobster (1875); Prawns, Preparations for Dessert (1877); Flies' Feast, War—Art—Religion (1880); Lucky Day, Present from Pomona (1881); The Tide (1882); For the Fête-Days, Salt and Fresh Water Crustaceans (1883); Thrushes, Raisins (1884).

BERGERET, PIERRE NOLASQUE, born in Bordeaux, Feb. 2, 1782, died in Paris, Feb. 21, 1863. History, genre, and portrait painter; pupil of Lacour, the elder (1745-1814), of Vincent and of David; exhibited first in the Salon of 1806, when he won the grand prix. Medal: 1st class, 1808. Works: Raphael's Obsequies (1806); Francis I. and Henry VIII. on the Field of the Cloth of Gold (1808); Charles V. picking up Titian's Brush (1808), Portrait of Louis Philippe, Museum, Bordeaux; Christ Crowned with Thorns, Cathedral, ib.; St. Louis in Prayer, Notre Dame, ib.; Czar Alexander presenting to Napoleon the Calmucks, Cossacks, and Bashkirs of the Russian Army (1810), Versailles Gallery; Henry IV. on his Bier, Meeting at Tilsit of Alexander and Napoleon (1810); Anne Boleyn listening to her Sentence (1814); Francis I. writing Verses inspired by Agnes Sorel (1817), Rembrandt in his Studio (1836), Fontainebleau; Homer Reciting, Michelangelo, grown blind, touching an Antique Torso (1817); St. Louis at Damietta, Lippo Lippi delivered from Captivity, Poussin's Obsequies (1819); Court of Marguerite of Navarre, Charles V. in Prison, Tintoretto and Aretino (1822); Shipwreck of Charles V. (1824); Claude Lorrain and Innocent X. (1831); Death of Titian (1833); Excavation of the Laocoön, Soliman II. buying Roxelana, Henry II. and Diana of Poitiers (1835); Education of Jupiter, Republic Triumphant (1849); Charity, Death of Columbus (1851).—Larousse, ii. 582; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 606.

BERGH, JOHAN EDVARD, born in Stockholm, March 29, 1828, died there, Sept. 23, 1880. Landscape painter; pupil of the Stockholm Academy; won first prize in 1853, and studied then in Düsseldorf under Gude and in Geneva under Calame. Travelled in 1856-57 in Italy; became, after his return, member of, and in 1861 professor in, the Stockholm Academy. Medals in Stockholm (1866) and Paris (1867). Works: Wood-Interior, Stockholm Museum; Beech-Wood, Magnus, Gothenburg; Veblungsnäs in Romsdal, Astrup, Stockholm; View of Stockholm, Prince of Wales; View in Dalecarlia, Becker, Amsterdam.—Brockhaus, ii. 819.

BERGHE, AUGUSTINUS VAN DEN, born at Bruges in 1756, died at Beauvais, France, in 1836. History, landscape, and portrait painter; pupil in Bruges Academy of J. A. Geremyn, then from 1780 in Paris Academy of Suvée; won prize in 1782, returned to Flanders in 1791, won prize in Ghent Academy in 1796, and became professor at the École centrale at Beauvais. Works: Coriolanus with his Family (1786); Œdipus at Colonus; Death of Adonis; St. Anthony of Padua in Ecstasy, Notre Dame, Bruges; Œdipus cursing his Son Polynices (1796), Ghent Museum.—Immerzeel, i. 46.

BERGHE, CHARLES AUGUSTE VAN DEN, born at Beauvais (Oise), in 1798, died in Paris, Dec. 17 (Nov. 19?), 1853. History and portrait painter; son of preceding, pupil of Girodet and Gros. Medal, 2d class, 1833; L. of Honour, 1839. Works: Quentin Durward and Louis XI., Portrait of Bertini (1833); Descent from the Cross, Temptation of St. Anthony, Magdalen Penitent (1836); Alice and Cora; portraits of Generals Vaubois and Gréard, of the composer Koutski, and others.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 612.

BERGHEM. See Berchem.

BERGLER, JOSEF, born in Salzburg, May 1, 1753, died in Prague, June 25, 1829. History painter; pupil of his father, the sculptor J. B., the elder (1708-88), in Passau, then from 1776-79 of Martin Knoller in Milan, and in 1786 of Maron in Rome. After winning the great prize of the Acad