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 Blind-Man's-Buff, Sir David Wilkie, Buckingham Palace.

Old Bachelor, Two Monks (1862); Samson at the Mill (1863), Daughter of Jairus (1864), Copenhagen Gallery; Roman Street Barber (1864); Prometheus (1864); Twenty-two Scenes from Life of Christ (1866-84), Chapel of Castle Fredericksborg; Christ and the Children, Christ the Consoler, Christ at Emmaus, Christ at Gethsemane, Resurrection, St. Jacob's Church, Copenhagen; Samson and Delilah (1874); Fishseller Woman (1875), Copenhagen Gallery; Hans Tavson protecting Bishop Rön-*now, James of Scotland visiting Tycho de Brahe, Chancellor Niels Kaas and his Ward, Prince Christian, King Christian as Prisoner in Sonderburg, Interior in Time of Christian IV. (1881).—Sigurd Müller, 33; Weilbach, 72; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xviii. 37.

BLOCK, EUGENIUS FRANS DE, born at Grammont, East Flanders, May 14, 1812. Genre painter; pupil at Ghent of Van Huffel, and in Antwerp of Braekeleer; since 1833 has exhibited genre scenes from low life, partly serious, partly humourous. Medal, Paris, 1842; L. of Honour, 1846. Works: Flemish Inn (1833); Musical Party, Grand-*father's Visit, Tavern-Interior, Rural Feast near Antwerp (1836); Politicians, Going Home from School (1855); Poacher's Wife, Hunter's Boy (1859); Flower Girl, Indiscreet Belles (1860); Reading the Bible, Sunday, Cold and Hunger (1862); The Smith, He is coming!—Art Journal (1866), 73; Immerzeel, i. 59; Kramm, i. 100.

BLOEMAERT, ABRAHAM, born at Gor-*cum, Dec. 25, 1564, died at Utrecht about 1658. Dutch school; history, portrait, and landscape painter; pupil of Joost de Beer at Utrecht, and, after having studied in Paris under different masters in 1581-84, of Hierony