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 *Sighted, Sleeping Savoyard Boy, Tinker, Old Shepherd (1873), The Poachers, Red Riding-Hood, Cinderella, the Favourites, Old Shepherd and Granddaughter, Idyl.—Müller, 67.

BOSCH (Bos), HIERONYMUS (Hieronymus van Aeken), born at Bois-le-Duc, between 1460 and 1464, died there in 1516. Flemish school; history and genre painter; treated scriptural subjects in a fantastic and grotesque spirit; great brilliancy of colour and delicacy of execution. His fame spread rapidly over the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain. Works: Adoration of Magi, Temptation of St. Anthony (3), Fall of Angels, Creation (?), Moral Fantasy, Madrid Museum; Christ crowned with Thorns, Valencia Museum; Temptation of St. Anthony, Antwerp Museum; Fall of Angels, Brussels Museum; Temptation of St. Anthony (2, ?), Museum, Vienna; Last Judgment, Academy, ib.; Holy Family, Naples Museum.—Allgem. d. Biog. iii. 184; Biog. nat. de Belgique, i. 149; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 90; Michiels, iv. 204; Rooses (Reber), 75; W. & W., ii. 528.

BOSER, FRIEDRICH, born at Halbau, Silesia, in 1811, died in Düsseldorf, Jan. 28, 1881. Genre and portrait painter; pupil in 1831-34 of Dresden, then, till 1836, of the Berlin Academy, and, till 1841, of the Düsseldorf Academy. Works: Egmont and Clara, Faust and Gretchen, Present to the Bride, Brother Sleeps, Wendish Girls at Church, Little Flower-Girl, Girl Knitting, The Widow, Poor's Box, The Redeemer (1870); Shooting at the Shawfowl, Looking at the Pictures, Mr. Böcker, New York.—Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 343; Meyer, Conv. Lex. (1874), iii. 550; Wolfgang Müller, Düsseldorf K., 291.

BOSSCHAERT (Bossaert), THOMAS WILLEBRORD, called Willeborts, born at Bergen-op-Zoom, in 1613, died in Antwerp, Jan. 23, 1654. Flemish school; history and portrait painter; pupil in Antwerp of Gerard Zegers, but became afterwards a successful imitator of Van Dyck, to whom some of his works are attributed; master of Antwerp guild in 1636, dean in 1650-51; director of Academy at Antwerp, 1649. Works: The Angels announcing to Abraham the Birth of Isaac, Brussels Museum; St. Sebastian and the Angel, Munich Gallery; Marriage of St. Catherine, Berlin Museum (?); Mary and St. Francis, Nuremberg Museum; Elijah in the Desert, Vienna Museum.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 750; Kramm, i. 134, vi. 1865; Michiels, ix. 71; Rooses (Reber), 328.

BOSSCHE, BALTHASAR VAN DEN, born at Antwerp, baptised Jan. 6, 1681, died there, Sept. 8, 1715. Flemish school; genre and portrait painter; pupil of Gerard Thomas. Work: Reception of Burgomaster in the Guild of Cross-Bowmen (1711), Antwerp Museum.—Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 426.

BOSSHARDT, KASPAR, born at Pfäffikon, Switzerland, in 1823. History painter; pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow and Schirmer; paints chiefly subjects from local history. Studio in Munich. Works: Halwyl of Bern before Battle of Murten (1868), Basle Museum; Death of Sickingen, Wengi of Solothurn placing himself before a Cannon, Confederate Woman in Suabian War, The Favourite, Politicians in the Monastery (1879).—Kunst-Chronik, iii. 66; Müller, 68.

BOSSUET, FRANÇOIS, born at Ypres, East Flanders, Aug. 20, 1800. Architecture painter; pupil of Brussels Academy; travelled in the Netherlands, Germany, France,