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 *mus Francken at Herenthals; returned to Utrecht, where, having for some time lived at Amsterdam (citizen there in 1591), he settled again before 1600, and is mentioned as member and dean of the guild in 1611-28. Treated all branches of painting from religious subjects down to still-life. Works: Ave Maria, Nativity (1612), Male portrait, Louvre, Paris; Magdalen Repentant, Nantes Museum; Hippomenes crowned in the Arena (1626); Marriage of Peleus (1638), Hague Museum; Diogenes and the Rooster, Raising of Lazarus (1607), Old Pinakothek, Munich; St. John preaching, Schleissheim Gallery; Argus and Mercury (1645), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Martyrdom of St. Andrew (copy after Caravaggio), Old Man's Head (1635), Dresden Gallery; Joseph's Second Dream, Berlin Museum; Nativity, St. John preaching in the Desert, SS. Peter and Paul, Brunswick Gallery; Niobe, Venus and Adonis, Hercules and Omphale, Copenhagen Gallery. His son and pupil, Hendrik, master of the guild at Utrecht about 1630-32, repeatedly its dean, and last mentioned in 1664, imitated at first Italian masters, afterwards Rubens. Works: Paul before Agrippa (1634), Maria van Pallaes (1657), two others, Utrecht Museum; Male portrait (1641), Brunswick Gallery; do. (1648?), Dresden Gallery.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Immerzeel, i. 60; Kramm, i. 101; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 166, 181; De Stuers, 14.

BLOEMEN, JAN FRANS VAN, called Orizonte, baptized in Antwerp, May 12, 1662, died in Rome about 1740 (?). Flemish school; landscape painter, brother of Pieter van Bloemen, pupil of Antonius Goubau. Went early to Rome, where he painted Italian views, showing influence of Claude Lorrain and Gaspar Poussin. Inferior to this master in grandeur of conception, he excelled him in the delicate gradation of distance, whence called l'Orizonte. Among his numerous works are: Six landscapes, Louvre; Flight into Egypt, Lille Museum; Myth of Latona, Berlin Museum; Landscape, Dresden Museum; Landscape, Brera, Milan; three landscapes, Vienna Museum; Armida, two others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; several in Academy of St. Luke and other galleries, Rome.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 488; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Michiels, x. 334; Rooses (Reber), 415.

BLOEMEN, NORBERT VAN, called Cephalus, born at Antwerp, in Feb., 1670, died at Amsterdam, in 1746. Flemish school; younger brother of Jan; studied in Antwerp and in Rome; painted scenes in private life and portraits.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 491.

BLOEMEN, PIETER VAN, called Stan-*daart, born in Antwerp, baptized Jan. 17, 1657, died there, buried March 6, 1720. Flemish school; genre, battle, and landscape painter; pupil of Simon van Douw, an imitator of Wouwerman; master of the guild in 1674. Spent some years in Rome, where he was a member of the Academy of St. Luke; returned to Antwerp and was made director of the Academy there in 1699. Works: Farrier, Copenhagen Gallery; Landscapes, Stockholm Museum; Ruin with Cattle (1710), Halt before Inn (1718), three others, Dresden Gallery; two Italian Landscapes, Vienna Museum; Training School for Horses (1712), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 492; Michiels, x. 331; Rooses (Reber), 408.

BLOKLAND. See Montfoort.

BLOMBERG, HUGO VON, Baron, born in Berlin, Sept. 26, 1820, died in Weimar, June 17, 1871. History and genre painter; pupil of Berlin Academy under Wach until 1845, then of Léon Cogniet in Paris, in 1847. After performing military duty in 1849, he resumed his studies in Berlin and moved to Weimar in 1867. Works: Dornröschen (1844); Neptune and Amymone (1847); Mediæval Town, Merchant of Venice (1866);