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 *land.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Kramm, i. 148; Van der Willigen, 89.

BRAMANTINO (Bramantino da Milano), born in Milan(?), died there about 1535. Lombard school; real name Bartolommeo Suardi; probably taught in local schools of Milan, afterward journeyman to Bramante. Among the earliest pictures assigned to him are Crucifixion, Municipio, Milan; Circumcision (dated 1491), Louvre; and Dead Christ, S. Sepolcro, Milan. He followed Bramante to Rome in the beginning of the 16th century, and was employed by Julius II. in the Camera dell' Eliodoro, but returned to Milan after the expulsion of the French from Lombardy, and painted there probably until near 1536, in which year his heirs are mentioned. All his later works show the influence of Leonardo da Vinci. Among his best are: Madonna and Angels, Brera, Milan; Head of St. John the Baptist, St. Jerome, Madonna and Saints, Ambrosiana, Milan; Flight into Egypt, Church of the Madonna del Sasso, Locarno; Pietà over portal of S. Sepolcro; St. Sebastian, S. Sebastiano, Milan.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 14; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iv. 17, viii. 14; Ch. Blanc, École milanaise; Burckhardt, 609; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mai., i. 494.

BRAMER, LEONARD, born at Delft in 1596, died after 1667. Dutch school; history and allegory painter. Went to France and Italy in 1614, returned to Delft in 1625, and entered the guild of St. Luke in 1629. Fond of candlelight effects, in the manner of Honthorst, and of Oriental or Jewish costumes, like Lastman and Rembrandt, of whom he became an imitator in his later years. Works: Descent from the Cross, Rotterdam Museum; Christ among the Doctors, Simon in the Temple, Brunswick Gallery; Christ and the Scoffers, Solomon in the Temple, Queen of Sheba before Solomon, Dresden Gallery; Two Allegories, Vienna Museum; Resurrection of Lazarus, Turin Gallery; Hecuba's Grief, Abraham visited by Angels, Madrid Museum.—Ch. Blanc. École hollandaise; Bode, Studien, 351; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 217.

BRAMTOT, ALFRED HENRI, born in Paris; contemporary. History painter, pupil of Bouguereau. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1879. Medals: 3d class, 1879; 2d class, 1885. Works: Bashful Love (1879); Punishment of Ixion (1882); Compassion (1883); Departure of Tobias (1885).

BRAND, JOHANN CHRISTIAN, born in Vienna, Nov. 15, 1723, died there, June 12, 1795. German school; landscape painter; son and pupil of Christian Hilfgott (born in Frankfort on the Oder, in 1695, died in Vienna, about 1750). He was court painter and, from 1771, professor at the Vienna Academy, and was considered one of the best artists in his line. Works: Landscape with Ruin (1741), do. with Peasants and Herd (1746), Battle of Hochkirch (1766), four landscapes (1768, 1771), Vienna Museum; ten in Prague Gallery; others in galleries of Germany, France, England, and Russia. By his father are three Wood Landscapes in the Vienna Museum, ten others in the Prague Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biog. iii. 236; Wurzbach, ii. 110.

BRANDEL, PETER JOHANN, born in Prague in 1660, died at Kuttenberg, Bohemia, in 1739. German school; history painter, pupil of the court painter Schröter, whom he soon surpassed; studied then after great masters in the galleries of Prague. Works: Baptism of Christ, Prague