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 to him by his friend Noel Desenfans, to Dulwich College, and £12,000 to build a gallery for them. Works: Landscapes, etc. (22), Dulwich Gallery.—Redgrave; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Richter, Dulwich Gal. Cat.; Sandby, i. 300.

BOURGET, LE, DEFENCE OF, Alphonse de Neuville, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; canvas, H. 5 ft. × 8 ft. Episode of the Franco-German war of 1870-71. A handful of French—eight officers and twenty men—barricaded themselves in the village church, swearing to die together rather than surrender. "It was necessary," wrote Gen. Duroc, "to shoot them through the windows and to bring up cannon to force a capitulation." The dying Lieut. Grison is being carried out of the church by two of his men. Painted in 1878.—Art Treasures of Amer., iii. 103; Künst-Chronik, xv. 387.

BOURGUIGNON, LE. See Courtois.

BOUT, PEETER, baptized in Brussels, Dec. 5, 1658, died about 1700. Flemish school; executed with Boudewyns a number of pictures, which, like those of Velvet Brueghel, occupy a place midway between landscape and genre, and in which he painted the figures. Works: Palace (by Dupont) with figures, Ghent Museum; Figures in Winter Landscape by d'Arthois, Brussels Museum; Figures in Landscape by Boudewyns in Madrid, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Brunswick, Dresden, and Vienna Museums, Uffizi, Florence, and Louvre, Paris.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 873; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 68; Michiels, ix. 342.

BOUTERWEK, FRIEDRICH AUGUST, born at Tarnowitz, Silesia, Feb. 9, 1806, died in Paris, Nov. 11, 1867. History painter; pupil of Berlin Academy under Kolbe, and in 1831 of Delaroche in Paris, where he settled after visiting Italy in 1834. He received 23 medals and many orders. His works are pleasing in arrangement, clear in colouring, and finished in execution. Works: Orestes (1833); Arabian Sentry, Romeo and Juliet (1836); Patriarchal Repast (1839); Isaac and Rebecca (1840); Neapolitan Scene, Episode from Wedding of Camacho; Jacob and Rachael (1844); Baptism of the Chamberlain (1848); Charlemagne in Argenteuil.—Allgem. d. Biogr., iii. 216; Revue artistique (1870); Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 186.

BOUTIBONNE, CHARLES ÉDOUARD, born at Buda-Pesth, Hungary, of French parents; contemporary. Genre painter; pupil of Winterhalter. Medal, 3d class, 1847. Works: Phryne (1868); Susannah (1881); Sirens (1883). Works in United States: Inquisitive Maid, T. R. Butler, New York; Skating, D. W. Powers, Rochester, N. Y.; Broken Heart, W. Mason, Taunton, Mass.; Readers, "Be quiet, Sir!" A. Adams, Watertown, Mass.; Skating, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; What shall I say to Him? E. B. Warren, Philadelphia; Travelling in Switzerland, Mrs. R. L. Stuart, New York; On the Ice, F. Harper, New York.

BOUTIGNY, (PAUL) EMILE, born in Paris; contemporary. History painter, pupil of Cabanel. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: A Cantonment (1880); Episode of the Affair of Quiberon—June 26, 1795 (1881); Episode of Combat of Bapaume in 1870 (1882); Pousse-café (1883); Boule-de-Suif (1884); Attack on the Mill (1885).

BOUTS, DIERICK, born in Haarlem about 1410-20, died at Louvain, May 6, 1475. Flemish school. Called sometimes Dirk van Haarlem and Dierick de Louvain. Settled in Louvain after 1450. History painter of great merit, of the Van Eyck school, in which he is almost unequalled in glowing depth and transparent clearness of colouring; his delicacy of personification and tenderness of execution are only marred by the exaggerated stiffness and slimness of his figures. Best works: Martyrdom of St. Erasmus and Last Supper, St. Peter, Louvain. Two wings of this altarpiece, Shower of Manna and Abraham before Melchisedec, are in the Old Pinakothek at Munich, two others, Feast of the Passover and Feeding of Elijah, in Berlin Museum. Judas taking our Lord, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Martyrdom of St. Hippolitus, Bruges Cathedral; Funeral of a