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BRÉTON, JULES ADOLPHE, born at Courrières (Pas-de-Calais), May 1, 1827. Genre painter; pupil of Drölling and Dévigne, whose daughter he married; one of the best French painters of village and country life. Medals: 3d class, 1855; 2d class, 1857; 1st class, 1859, 1861, 1867; medal of honour, 1872; L. of Honour, 1861; Officer, 1867. Works: Misery and Despair (1849); Harvesters' Return (1853); The Gleaners, I. Pereire; The Day after St. Sebastian, Little Peasant Girls telling Fortunes (1855); Planting a Cemetery, Lille Museum; Blessing the Harvest (1857), Recall of the Gleaners (1859), Evening (1861), The Gleaner (1877), Luxembourg Museum; The Fire, Weed Gatherers (1861), Comte Duchatel; Consecration of the Church of Oignies, M. de Clerq; Haymaker, Returning from Fields (1863); Vintage at Château Lagrange, Comte Duchatel; Reading, Turkey Keeper (1864); End of the Day, Blue Monday, Recall of the Gleaners (1865); Spring of Water near the Sea, Harvest-Time (1867); Women gathering Potatoes, Heliotrope (1868); Plenary Indulgence in Brittany, Bad Grass (1869); Breton Washerwomen, Woman Spinning (1870); Girl tending Cows, The Fountain (1872); The Cliff, When the Cat's away the Mice will play (1874); St. John (1875); Village Girl (1879); Evening (1880); Artois Woman (1881); Evening at Finistère (1882); The Rainbow, Morning (1883); Communicants (1884); Last Ray, Song of the Lark (1885). Works in the United States: Peasant Girl Knitting, Grand Pardon in Brittany, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York; Gleaner, Samuel Hawk Collection, New York; Harvest, W. Rockefeller, New York; Lookout, R. C. Taft, Providence; Fleur de Sable, J. Carey Coale, Baltimore; Gleaners, H. Probasco, Cincinnati; Tired Gleaner, Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland; Sea Bird, D. Catlin, St. Louis; Burning Brushwood, Little Gleaner's Rest, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia; Departure for the Fields, G. Whitney, Philadelphia; Evening, A. Spencer, New York; Breton Washerwomen at the Seashore, E. D. Morgan Collection, New York; Gathering Water-Lilies, Peasant Woman, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Tired Gleaner, C. S. Smith, New York; Overdrawn Score, J. Hoey, New York; Close of the Day, Sunny Day, Repose, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Potato Harvest, H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia; Brittany Woman, Rainbow, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; Reaper's Rest, Wm. Astor, New York.—Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 642; Portfolio (1875), 2.

BRETT, JOHN, born in England; contemporary. Landscape and marine painter; studio at Putney. Elected an A.R.A. in 1881. Works: Spires of Channel Islands (1875); Sir Thomas's Tower (1876); Cornish Lions (1877); Carnarvon Bay (1878); Stronghold of the Seison (1879); Britannia's Realm, Sandy Shallows of Seashore (1880); St. Ives Bay, Golden Prospects—St. Catherine's Well (1881); Falling Barometer, Grey of the Morning (1882); Yellow Sands, Welsh Dragons (1883); Norman Archipelago (1885).—Art Journal (1882), 57.

BREU (Brew, Prew), JÖRG (Georg), died in Augsburg, 1536. German school; probably pupil of Hans Burgkmair, whose style his pictures recall, as well as that of Altdorfer. The anatomical treatment of his figures is defective, but his landscape backgrounds are remarkable. Works: Madonna, Berlin Museum (1512); Battle of Zama, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Madonna (1523), Ambras Collec