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 *male Head, Museum, Antwerp; Assumption, S. Jacques, ib.; Vow of St. Louis of Gonzaga, Nantes Museum; St. Francis Xavier converting an Indian Prince, Jesuit Church, Ypres; Judgment of Paris, Hague Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 605; Michiels, ix. 3; Rooses (Reber), 331.

BOGGS, FRANK MYERS, born in New York, in 1855. Marine painter; pupil of Gérôme and of the École des Beaux Arts, Paris. Two of his pictures purchased by French Government. Studio in Dieppe. Works: Marine—French Coast; Return from Crab-Fishing (1882); Coast Scene—Honfleur (1883); Old Canal at Dordrecht, On the Thames (1884); Port of Honfleur (1885).

BOGH, CARL HENRIK, born in Copenhagen, Sept. 3, 1827. Genre and portrait painter; pupil of Copenhagen Academy, then studied in Paris, 1860-61; travelled in Sweden and Norway. Title of professor in 1873. Works: Country Scene (1854); Horse Dealer (1857); Reunion (1862); Milking Place (1870); Reindeer at the Milking Place (1875), Copenhagen Gallery.—Sigurd Müller, 55; Weilbach, 91.

BOGLE, JAMES, born in South Carolina in 1817, died in 1873. Portrait painter; pupil of Professor Morse in New York, where his professional life was chiefly spent. He painted portraits of Calhoun, Clay, Webster, John A. Dix, Henry J. Raymond, and other distinguished men. Elected an A.N.A. in 1850, and N.A. in 1861.

BOGOLJUBOFF, ALEXIS, born in Government of Moscow in 1824. Marine painter; pupil of St. Petersburg Academy; won, in 1853, the first prize, and went to Düsseldorf, where he studied under Andreas Achenbach. After his return exhibited more than one hundred paintings; became in 1858 member of, and in 1861 professor in, the Academy. Accompanied the Cesarevich on his travels, and in 1866 revisited Germany, where he painted several large historical marines, city-views, and sea-battles. Decorated with Russian, Austrian, Danish, and Belgian orders. Works: Battle of Sinope (1853); Battles of Grenhane and Petropavlovsk; First Sea-Battle of Peter the Great; Morning after the Storm; Disembarkment; Battle near Hangut in 1714; Peter the Great with his Galleys; Crossing near Rilaco in Finland, Battle near Isle of Oesel in 1819; Views of Naples, Venice, and Amsterdam; Christ walking on the Sea; Christ on Lake of Gennesareth, Ice afloat on the Neva (1873); Roadstead of Cronstadt (1878).—Brockhaus, iii. 241; Müller, 61.

BOHN, GERMANN VON, born at Heilbronn, Würtemberg, Feb. 25, 1812. History painter; studied in Stuttgart, then in Paris under Henri Lehmann and Ary Scheffer, and for two years in Rome; then lived in Paris until 1876, when he was appointed court-painter at Stuttgart. Medals: Paris, 1844, 1849; L. of Honour, 1852; Würtemberg Crown Order. Works: Death of Cleopatra (1840), Nantes Museum; Hagar and Ishmael (1843), St. Martin de Tours (1844), Tours Cathedral; Romeo and Juliet, Nancy Museum; All Souls' Day, Villa Rosenhain, near Stuttgart; Serenade (after Uhland), Stuttgart Gallery; Hamlet and Ophelia (1849); St. Elizabeth (1866); St. Agnes; The Valkyrie; The Vow, Gelsomina (1868); My Mother's Umbrella (1870).—Meyer, Con. Lex., xviii. 142.

BOILLY, LOUIS LEOPOLD, born at La Bassée, near Lille, July 5, 1761, died in Paris, Jan. 5, 1845. Genre and portrait painter. Began to paint portraits when thirteen, went to Paris about 1787, and it is said painted the incredible number of 5000 pictures, many of them being scenes of the Revolution treated rather from the grotesque than the tragic side. Arrival of the Diligence (1803), Louvre, Paris; Isabey's Atelier with twenty-four portraits of artists, Triumph of Marat, Lille Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École française.