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 *scape with Figures (by Poelenburg), Schwerin Gallery; do. and Landscape with Ruins (1636), View of Tivoli, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Bode, Studien, 335; Havard, A. & A. holl., iv. 69.

BREITBACH, KARL, born in Berlin in 1833. Landscape and genre painter; pupil of the Berlin Academy, and in Paris of Couture; travelled in Germany, France, and England. Painted at first only landscapes; later, genre scenes and successful portraits. Works: Mill of St. Ouen, near Paris; Park of Trianon; Huntsman on Stand; Rest at the Chase; Whestphalian Church; Noonday Prayers; Kirmess-Joy; Kirmess-Woe; Village Parade; Portrait of the Painter Th. Weber; do. of Intendant General von Hülsen, At the Fortune-Teller's, Female Head, Male Head, Man's Portrait (1883).—Müller, 75.

BREKELENKAM (Breklinkam), QUIRYN, born at Swammerdam, near Leyden, died at Leyden in 1668. Dutch school; genre painter, probably pupil of Gerard Dou, though his works recall both Metsu and Adrian van Ostade. Master of the guild at Leyden in 1648. Painted solid, strong, and naïve figures in warm and harmonious colour. Works: Woman feeding her Child, Tailor's Shop (1661); Interior, The Fireside (1664), A Mouse-Trap (1668), National Gallery, Amsterdam; Monk writing, Consultation, Louvre; Interior (1662), Lille Museum; Old Couple, The Sandwich, Interior, Leyden Museum; Saying Grace, Cassel Gallery; Old Man with Fish, Old Woman with Vegetables, Woman feeding little Girl, Game of Cards (1662), Brunswick Museum; A Brazier (1654), Augsburg Gallery; A Baptism, Dresden Gallery; Vegetable Vender (1661), Berlin Museum; Hermit (1660), Disappointed Drinker, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Chronique des Arts (1878), 69, 75; Havard, A. & A. holl., iv. 91; Wedmore, Masters of Genre Painting, 146.

BREMOND, JEAN FRANÇOIS, born in Paris in 1807, died March 2, 1868. Genre and portrait painter; pupil of A. Couder and of Ingres. Medal of the second class in 1833 and in 1863. Principal works: Christ (1827); Scene of July Revolution (1830); Miseries of War (1833); Francis I. visiting Benvenuto Cellini (1834), Narbonne Museum; Death of the Virgin (1837); Charity (1838); Church of St. Peter in Carcassonne; St. Francis of Assisi (1839); Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture (1842), a fresco; Leda (1845); Susanna at the Bath (1847); Presentiment of the Passion (1848); Death of Bailly, Muse of André Chenier (1849);	Cartoons for frieze in church of Villetta, Raising of Lazarus, Christ healing the Blind Man in Jericho, Sermon on Mount (1850);	Descent from Cross (1852); Victorious Love (1853); Bohemian, Flight into Egypt (1859); Revery (1861); Slavery and Liberty, Caen Museum; The Butterfly (1864); Theological Virtues, Cardinal Virtues (1866), St. Lambert, Vaugirard.—Larousse.

BRENDEL, (HEINRICH) ALBERT, born in Berlin, June 7, 1827, died in 1878. Animal painter; pupil of Berlin Academy, under W. Krause, then in Paris of Couture and Palizzi; visited Italy in 1852, and studied in Berlin under Steffeck. Lived in Paris in 1854-64, and at Barbison in the forest of Fontainebleau in summers of 1864-69. Became member of the Berlin Academy in 1868, and professor at the Weimar Art School in 1875. Medals: Paris, 1857-59-61; Berlin, 1861; Nantes, 1861; Munich, 1869; Vienna, 1873. Works: Interior of Sheep Stable, Hamburg Gallery; Horse Stable at Barbison, Normandy Horses, Peasant's Farm, Sheep leaving Stable, Return of Sheep to the Village, National Gallery, Berlin; Don Quixote's Sheep, Pasture in Holland.—Müller, 76.

BRENDSTRUP, THORALD, born at Fjenneslev, Jutland, May 25, 1812. Land