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 BOIS, CORNELIS DU, flourished about 1650. Dutch school; landscape painter, in the style of Jacob Ruisdael, possibly his pupil. Works: Wood Landscape (1649), Brunswick Gallery; do., Cassel Gallery; do. (attributed to Guillam du B.), Schwerin Gallery.—Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 395.

BOISSELIER, FÉLIX, the elder, born at Damphal (Haute-Marne), in 1776, died in Rome, Jan. 12, 1811. History painter; pupil of Sieti, or Cieti, an Italian decorative painter, and later of Regnault. Won the grand prize for painting twice successively (1805-06), the two subjects being the Death of Demosthenes and the Return of the Prodigal Son. Went to Rome in 1806, and sent from there his Death of Adonis, now in the Louvre, which was exhibited in 1812, after his death. His younger brother, Antoine Félix, called the younger, was a painter of history and historical landscapes. His Death of Bayard is at Fontainebleau.—Villot, Cat. Louvre.

BOISSIEU, JEAN JACQUES DE, born at Lyons, Nov. 30, 1736, died there, March 1, 1810. Landscape and genre painter; pupil of Lombard, and of Jean Charles Frontier, and formed himself after the Dutch masters; studied also in Paris and Italy. Works: Landscape with Washerwomen, Louvre, Paris; Hilly River Landscape, Valley with River (1773), Berlin Museum.—Larousse, ii. 886; Notice de Tableaux du Louvre (1882), iii. 14.

BOIT, EDWARD DARLEY, born in Boston; contemporary. Marine painter; studied first in Boston, later in Paris under Français; has also lived and painted in Rome. Studio in Paris. Works: La Plage de Villers—Calvados (1876); Beach of Villers—Normandy (1878); Terrace at Grove Farm at Leatherhead—England (1884); Tunbridge Wells—England (1885).

BOKELMANN, LUDWIG (CHRISTIAN LOUIS), born at St. Jürgen, near Bremen, Feb. 4, 1844. Genre painter; pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under W. Sohn; has attained considerable reputation with serious as well as humourous scenes, and secured a place among the foremost genre painters of Germany. Medals: London, Vienna (1873), Ghent, Berlin, and Brussels. Works: House of Sorrow (1873); Shoemaker's Apprentice (1873); Extreme Unction (1873); Dawn of Day (1874); Mountebank (1875); Pawnbroker's Shop (1876), Stuttgart Gallery; Failure of a Bank (1878); Camp in Winter-Time; Opening of the Will (1879), National Gallery, Berlin; Last Stage of Election Contest (1880).—Müller, 63; Illustr. Zeitg. (1879), i. 10; (1881), ii. 469; Land und Meer (1884), i. 426; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xv. 48, xvi. 149.

BÖKER, KARL, born at Barmen, in 1836. Genre painter; pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn and Schadow; painted at first biblical pictures, but turned to genre subjects; excels especially in humourous scenes. Works: Chastity of Joseph; St. John; Flight into Egypt; Magdalen; Revision of Passport; After School (1866); Crab-Fishing and Repast (1867); The Good Testimonial (1868); Little Recruits (1868); Spectacle-Dealer (1869); Walk to Kirmess (1870); Cupid in the Sculpture Gallery (1871); Canary Bird Seller (1872); Large Hotel-Bill (1873); Children Swinging, Mother's Joy (1875); At the Fair (1876); Great Misery; Christmas-Box; Bird-Thieves arraigned; Your Health!—Müller, 63; Illustr. Zeitg. (1873), i. 255.

BOKLUND, JOHAN KRISTOFER, born at Kulla-Gunnarstorp, Sweden, July 15, 1817, died in Stockholm, Dec. 10, 1880. History and genre painter; studied from 1832 in Lund under Körner, then at the Copenhagen Academy, in 1837 in Stockholm, 1846 in Munich, and 1854 in Paris under Couture; returned to Sweden in 1856, became member of and professor in the