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 BOONEN, ARNOLD VAN, born at Dordrecht, in 1669, died in 1729. Dutch school; portrait and genre painter; pupil of Gottfried Schalken, imitating the latter in his subjects taken by candle-light. He painted life-size portraits at some of the German courts. His younger brother, Jasper Boonen (1677-1729), and his son Kasper Boonen, were portrait painters. Works: Young Woman with Lantern (1695), six others, Dresden Gallery; Anchorite Reading (1695), Brunswick Gallery.—Gool, i. 294.

BOOTHBY, PENELOPE, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Earl of Dudley; canvas. A little girl in a large mob cap, seated out-of-doors. Sometimes called the Mob Cap. Painted in 1788; sold in 1851 to B. G. Windus for 290 guineas; bought at his sale (1859) by Lord Ward for 1100 guineas. Engraved by Thomas Park (1789); T. Kirk; S. Cousins; lithographed in Portfolio.—Portfolio (1873), 136; (1876), 145; Athenæum, Aug., 1874, 185; Dec., 1874, 758.

BOOTT, ELIZABETH, born in Cambridge, Mass.; contemporary. Figure painter; pupil of W. M. Hunt, of Duveneck, and in Paris of Couture. Studio in Boston. Works: Head of a Tuscan Ox (1876); Old Man Reading (1878); Old Roman Peasant, Girl with Cat (1879); Almond Blossoms, Still-Life (1882); Pyrus Japonica (1883).

BORDES, ERNEST DOMINIQUE, born at Pau, France; contemporary. History and genre painter; pupil of Bonnat and Cormon. Medal: 3d class, 1884. Works: The Concierge is a Tailor (1881); Malaguéna de Seville (1882); Jour des Cuivres, Breton Woman Spinning (1883); Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller (1884); Tide at Cayeux (1885).

BORDONE, PARIS, born in Treviso, in 1500, died in Venice, Jan. 19, 1570. Venetian school; of a noble family; pupil of Titian, under whom he gave promise early of great ability. Afterward studied the works of Giorgione, whom he imitated rather than Titian. He excelled especially in portraits, his heads being inferior only to those of Titian. His flesh tints are wonderfully brilliant, but in taste and quality of touch he was inferior to either Titian or Paolo Veronese. His landscape backgrounds are generally classical and elegant. In 1538 he went to Paris, at the invitation of Francis I., or, as some say, in 1559, at that of Francis II., and painted the principal personages of the court. The most important of his works are: The Fisherman presenting the Ring of St. Mark to the Doge, and the Tiburtine Sibyl, Venice Academy; Baptism of Christ, Brera, Milan; Altarpiece and Madonna and Saints, Berlin Museum; Diana, Apollo, and Marsyas, Dresden Gallery; Madonna and Saints, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Daphnis and Chloe, National Gallery, London. There are portraits by Bordone in the Uffizi and Pitti, Florence; and in the Louvre, Munich, Vienna, and other galleries.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Seguier, 23; Siret, 119; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., vii. 82, ix. 143, xiii. 47; Burckhardt, 741; Morelli (Richter), 195; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 568.

BORESUM (Borssem, Borssum), ABRAHAM VAN, flourished about 1600. Dutch school; landscape and animal painter, in the manner of A. Cuyp and A. van der Neer. Clever painter and able colourist, with a firm touch. Works: Village by Moonlight, Rotterdam Museum; Pictures in Van Loon Collection, Amsterdam, and