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 pupil of Bonnat. Medal, 3d class, 1885. Works: In the Country (1881); La Greve des Forgerons (1882); Churchwarden's Pew (1883); Baptismal Feast, Portrait of Cormon (1884); Burial of a Farmer in Picardy (1885).

BRISSET, PIERRE NICOLAS, born in Paris, Aug. 18, 1810. History and genre painter; pupil of Picot, and of the École des Beaux Arts. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1840. Medals, 2d class, 1847, 1855; L. of Honour, 1868. Works: Death of Priam (1840); St. Laurence showing the Treasures of the Church (1846); St. Sebastian (1855), ordered by State; Fishermen entering a Church (1865); Such is the Way to Heaven (1868); Two Sisters of Charity (1876). Has executed works in St. Vincent de Paul, Paris, and other churches.—Vapereau (1880), 306.

BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, FÉLIX SATURNIN, born at Sens (Yonne); contemporary. Animal painter, pupil of L. Cogniet. Medal, 2d class, 1882. Works: In the Plain, The Thicket (1881); Sheep in Meadow (1882); Flock of Sheep, Leaving the Park (1883); Sheep at Rest, The Return (1884); Interior of Sheepfold, Return of the Flock (1885).

BRISTOL, JOHN BUNYAN, born at Hillsdale, New York, March 14, 1826. Landscape painter; pupil at Hudson of Henry Ary. In 1859 visited Florida and painted from his sketches tropical pictures which brought him into notice. Elected an A.N. A. in 1861, and N.A. in 1874. Studio in New York. Works: View of Mt. Oxford (1876, medal of honour, Philadelphia); On the St. John's River—Florida; Monument Mountains; Mt. Equinox; View of Lake Champlain from Ferrisburg (1878), purchased by Directors of Paris Exposition; Ascutney Mountains; Valley of the Housatonic; Delaware River near Port Jervis (1880); Lake Placid—Adirondacks (1881); Near Stockbridge, Mass. (1882); Valley of the Connecticut, Vermont (1883).

BRITTEN, W. E. F., born in England; contemporary. Exhibits chiefly at Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Music (1879); Dancing (1880); Flight of Helen (1881), one of a series painted for Wyfold Court, seat of late Edward Hermon, M.P.; Che sará sará, Anglers, An Idyl, Baby Ida (1882); Boys and Dolphins, decorative frieze executed for Earl of Leconfield (1883); Idyl, Genii of Sport (1885).

BROECK, CRISPIN VAN DEN, born at Mechlin in 1530 (?), died in Holland about 1601. Flemish school; pupil of Frans Floris; entered the Antwerp guild in 1555, became a citizen in 1559. Was also an architect and engraver on both metal and wood. Works: Adoration of the Magi, Vienna Museum; Last Judgment (1571), Antwerp Museum; do., Brussels Museum; Holy Family, Madrid Museum.—Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 428; Nagler, Mon., ii. 297.

BROECK (Brock), ELIAS VAN DEN, born in Antwerp (?) about 1657, died in Amsterdam in 1711. Dutch school; flower painter, pupil of Cornelis de Heem; his pictures are true to nature and fine in colouring. Works: Three pictures of still life, Museum, Vienna; two in Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Flowers, Rotterdam Museum.—Michiels, x. 444.

BROEDERLAM (Brooderlam), MELCHIOR, born at Ypres. Flemish school; flourished latter part of 14th century, when he became painter and valet-de-chambre to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. In 1398 he painted Scripture subjects on the wings of two shrines sculptured by Jacques de la Baerse of Dendermonde, for the Carthusian Convent at Dijon, and now in the museum of that city. His style has the faults of the Westphalian school, tempered by the more graceful and tender feeling of the school of Cologne.—C. & C., Flemish Painters, 19; Biog. nat. de Belgique, iii. 78; Michiels, ii. 33.

BROKEN PITCHER (Cruche cassée), J. B. Greuze, Louvre; canvas, H. 3 ft. 7 in. × 2 ft. 9 in. A young girl, in a white dress, with a violet ribbon and white flowers in her hair, and a gauze fichu which half conceals a crushed rose upon her breast, stands holding