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 and assisting Horace Le Blanc; then spent two years at Rome, and some time at Venice, where by study of the old masters he so much improved as a colourist that on his return home he was called the French Titian. He painted now destroyed works in the Hôtel Perault and Hôtel Bullion, Paris, and in Turin the loves of Venus and Adonis for the Duke of Savoy. Works: Holy Family, The Virgin and St. Anne, Charity, St. Paul, Louvre.—Ch. Blanc, École française.

BLANCHET, THOMAS, born in Paris, in 1617, died in Lyons, in 1689. French school; studied in Italy under Albani, Andrea Sacchi, and Poussin. After his return painted a St. Paul for Notre Dame (1663), and then settled in Lyons, where he decorated the Hôtel de Ville, and founded an Academy (1681), from which proceeded many able artists. Nearly all his works were destroyed in 1793.—Ch. Blanc, École française; Gaz. des B. Arts (1874), x. 278.

BLANCKARTS, MORITZ, born in Düsseldorf, April 16, 1839, died in Stuttgart, April 12, 1883. Battle painter; pupil of Pläschke and of Vautier, then at Düsseldorf Academy under Christian Köhler, in 1857 of Leutze, and in 1858-59 of Hünten; and completed his studies by travels through Germany and Belgium. Works: Death of Körner (1859); Death of Major Schill (1860); York at Möckern (1863); King William at Königgrätz (1867); Death of Col. Auerswald (1872); Bazaine at Mars la Tour (1873); Death of Col. Count Finkenstein (1874); Prince Leopold of Coburg at Kulm (1875); Departure; Hussars at the Inn; Crown Prince of Prussia greeting the Bavarians after the Victory of Wörth.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1876), ii. 117; Müller, 55; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 466.

BLASHFIELD, EDWIN HOWLAND, born in New York, Dec. 25, 1848. Subject painter; pupil of Bonnat in Paris. Visited Europe in 1867, remaining abroad eleven years. Member of Society of American Artists. Elected an A.N.A. in 1882. Studio in New York. Works: Emperor Commodus leaving the Amphitheatre at the head of the Gladiators (1878); Roman Woman (1879); The Besieged (1880); Souvenir of Mentone; Toreador (1881); Music, Suspense, Autumn (1882);	Allegretto, Andante, Minute Men (1883); Decorative Panels, Morning, etc. (1884),	H. McK. Twombly, New York.

BLAU, TINA, born in Vienna, Nov. 15, 1847. Landscape painter; pupil in Vienna of August Schäffer, and in Munich of Linden-*schmit. Has travelled in Bohemia, Hungary, Holland, and repeatedly visited Italy. Works: Regulation of the Danube near Vienna; Autumn in the Prater; Canal near Amsterdam; Autumn Day in Holland; Arch of Titus in Rome; Street in Venice; View near Szolnok; Bavarian Landscape; Outside the City; Rain and Sunshine; Field-Flowers, April-Day, Spring in the Prater (1883).—Müller, 55.

BLAUVELT, CHARLES F., born in New York, in 1824. Genre painter; pupil of the National Academy, and of Charles L. Elliot. Professional life passed in New York and Philadelphia. Elected N.A. in 1859, member of Pennsylvania Academy in 1864, made assistant professor of drawing at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, in 1878. Works: Warming Up; Lost Child; Night Signal; Waiting for the Train; Inquiring the Way; Preparing for School; Snowed In; Burned Out; Entrance to Old Fort Severn—Annapolis (1880).

BLECHEN, KARL EDUARD, born at Kottbus, July 29, 1798, died in Berlin, July 23, 1840. Landscape painter; studied at the Berlin Academy. In 1827 went to Italy and thenceforth painted chiefly Italian landscapes. From 1830 he taught at the Berlin Academy, of which he was made member and professor in 1835. Works: Camp near