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 *ment between Constitution and Guerrière; Engagement between Wasp and Frolic, Harrison Collection, Philadelphia; three Marine Views, Claghorn Collection, Philadelphia.

BIRD, EDWARD, born at Wolverhampton, England, April 12, 1772, died at Bristol, Nov. 2, 1819. History and genre painter; after learning to paint landscapes, fruits, and flowers on Japan ware became a drawing master, and in 1807 exhibited some pictures at Bath which brought him into notice. His first works were genre subjects, such as The Blacksmith's Shop, The Young Recruit, and The Country Auction, but he soon began to paint religious and historical subjects with such success that he was appointed painter to the Princess Charlotte, and became in 1812 an A.R.A., and in 1815 R.A. Still, his earlier works are the best, his more ambitious conceptions being beyond his ability to complete. Works: Raffle for the Watch, National Gallery; Day after Chevy Chase, Death of Eli, Stafford House, London; Queen Philippa supplicating for the Lives of the Burghers of Calais (1814); Crucifixion (1817); Death of Sapphira (1818).—Nat. Gal. Cat.; Cunningham; Art Union, 1843, 92; F. de Conches, 329; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Redgrave; Sandby, i. 352.

BISET, KAREL EMANUEL, born at Mechlin, baptized Dec. 26, 1633, died at Breda in 1680. Flemish school; genre and portrait painter; went early to Paris, where his pictures, representing festal assemblies, balls, etc., were much in vogue; returned to Flanders and entered the service of Comte de Montérey, Governor of the Netherlands; settled soon after at Antwerp, where he was received into the guild in 1661; became a citizen in 1663, and dean of the guild, and director of the Academy in 1675. Works: Tell shooting at the Apple on his Son's Head, Brussels Museum; Flemish Interior, Rotterdam Museum.—Biogr. nat. de Belgique, ii. 440; Fétis, Cat. du Musée Royal, 253.

BISI, LUIGI, Cavaliere, born in Milan, May 10, 1814. Architecture and landscape painter; pupil of Fr. Durelli at Milan Academy, of which he became professor of perspective, and later, president. Paints chiefly interiors. Works: Interior of Milan Cathedral (1840), Vienna Museum; Orsan-*michele in Florence, National Gallery, Berlin; S. Marco, Milan Cathedral, in Milan Academy; View of Bellagio; Choir in St. Ambrosius, Milan; Interior of S. Michele, ib.; Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Amsterdam Exposition, 1883.—Würzbach, i. 411.

BISPHAM, HENRY COLLINS, born in Philadelphia, June 9, 1841, died in Rome, Dec. 22, 1882. Animal painter; pupil in Philadelphia of Edmund D. Lewis and William T. Richards, and studied in Paris under Otto Weber and E. van Marcke. Professional life passed in Philadelphia, New York, Paris, and Rome; served in army in 1862, in the Cumberland Valley, in Pennsylvania, and in Maryland. Was successful in the delineation of wild animals and cattle. Works: Cavalry Raid (1863); Dead in the Desert, Roman Bull (1867); Roman Wine-Cart (1868); On the Campagna, To the Front, Noonday Rest (1869); Hunting Dogs, Four-in-Hand, Polo (1870); Hunted Down (1871); The Stampede (1872); Misty Day (1873); Ross Castle (1874); Study of Figures (1875); The Lion "Sultan" (1879); Pennsylvania Academy; Valée du Var (1880); Roman Oxen Ploughing (1881); Friendly Overtures, Roman Horses (1882).

BISSCHOP, CHRISTOPH, born at Leeuwarden; contemporary. Genre painter; pupil in Paris of Comte and Gleyre. Lives at The Hague. Works: Rembrandt going to Lecture on Anatomy (1867); Burgomaster's Daughter, Cradle-Painter (1872); Curiosity-Shop; The Victim; Christening Day in Friesland; Wedding Day; Winter in Friesland; The Prisoner's Song; The Lord has given, the Lord has taken away (1880);