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 *tique School of Royal Academy. Began by making designs for book illustrations, of which he published a great number, many of them in colours. He exhibited a few works at the Royal Academy, among them Death of Earl Godwin (1780); Breach in a City the Morning after Battle, War unchained by an Angel (1784); History of Joseph (1785); Last Supper (1799); Jacob's Dream, Christ in Sepulchre guarded by Angels (1808). In the National Gallery is his Spiritual Form of Pitt guiding Behemoth. He also published many works engraved by himself, and poems illustrated by himself.—Gilchrist, Life (London, 1863); Swinburne, Life (London, 1868); Cat. Nat. Gal.; C. Carr, Essays, 35; Rossetti, Memoir in his edition of Blake's Poems; Portfolio (1876), 67.

BLAKELOCK, RALPH ALBERT, born in New York, in 1847. Self-taught. Studio in New York. Works: Indian Girl—Uinta Tribe, T. B. Clarke, New York; Story of Buffalo Hunt, Shooting the Arrow (1880); Cloverdale—California, Moonlight, Indian Fisherman (1882); "Cool wooded shades, abode of stately deer," Bannock Wigwam in Peaceful Vale (1883).

BLANC, LOUIS AMMY, born in Berlin, Aug. 9, 1810, died in Düsseldorf, April 7, 1885. Genre and portrait painter; pupil, from 1829, of the Berlin Academy, and from 1833, under Hübner, of the Düsseldorf Academy; painted at first subjects from mediæval romance, then portraits in Hanover in 1840-42, and in Darmstadt in 1846-47; visited England and France in 1857. Works: Praying Woman, The Church-Goer (1835); Goldsmith's Daughter (1836); Marguerite in Church (1838); Girls fishing (1838), National Gallery, Berlin; Susanna at the Bath, Otto the Shot, Marguerite at Martha's, Italian Shepherd-Boy, Girl fallen Asleep, Expectation, Red Riding-Hood.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., iii. 539; Müller, 54.

BLANC, PAUL JOSEPH, born at Montmartre (Paris), Jan. 25, 1846. Genre painter; pupil of Bin and Cabanel. Won the prix de Rome in 1867. Medals: 1870; 1st class, 1872; 2d class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Thetis taking to Achilles the Arms forged by Vulcan, Murder of Laïus by [Oe]dipus (1867); The First Sin (1869); Perseus (1870), Luxembourg; Removal of the Palladium (1872); The Invasion (1873); The Rescue, Clovis's Vow in the Battle of Tolbia and his Baptism (1876), sketch of paintings for the Pantheon; Brigand's Wife (1878), M. Pasteur; Judith and Holofernes, My Lieutenant (1879); Clovis's Triumph (1881); The Tiber (1885).

BLANCHARD, ÉDOUARD THÉOPHILE, born in Paris, April 18, 1844, died there, Oct. 24, 1879. Genre, history, and portrait painter; pupil of Picot and of Cabanel; was third in 1866 for the grand prix de Rome, second in 1867, and won it in 1868. Medals: 2d class, 1872; 1st class, 1874. Works: Panel for a Dining-Room (1867); Death of Astyanax (1868), painted with Regnault and Clairin; The Courtesan (1872); Hylas entrapped by the Nymphs (1874); Cortegiana (1875); Le Lutrin (1876); Francesca da Rimini (1880).—Kunst-Chronik, xv. 107.

BLANCHARD, (HENRI PÉTROS LÉON) PHARAMOND, born at La Guillotière (Rhône), Feb. 27, 1805, died in Paris, Dec. 19, 1873. History and landscape painter; pupil in Paris of Chasselat and Gros; travelled in Spain (1833), Africa, Mexico (1838), Germany, France, and Russia (1856), and exhibited at the Salon almost every year after 1833. Medal, 3d class, 1836; L. of Honour, 1840. Works: Disarmament of Vera Cruz (1840), Versailles Museum; Balboa discovering South Sea (1855), bought by State; Valley of Jehoshaphat; March of Division of French Army on Mexico (1865), bought by Ministry of Fine Arts.—Ottley; Vapereau (1865), 202.

BLANCHARD, JACQUES, born in Paris, Oct. 1, 1600, died there in 1638. Pupil of his uncle Jérôme Bolley; went to Lyons in 1620, and spent four years in studying with