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 *angelo, and some of his works show his influence, though he was not one of his imitators. He painted both in fresco and in oil, and was a decided mannerist in his historical pictures. His portraits of members of the Medici family, his patrons, and of many distinguished men of his time, are by far his best works and among the finest of the 16th century. His largest work is Descent of Christ into Limbo (1552), Uffizi, Florence. Among his best pictures are: The Engineer, Pitti, Florence; Lady, Boy with a Letter, Young Sculptor, Uffizi, Florence; Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, Knight of St. Stephen, Portraits of a Lady and of Duke Cosimo I., National Gallery, London; Venus and Cupid, Buda-Pesth Gallery; Dead Christ, Florence Academy; Christ appearing to Magdalen, Louvre.—Vasari, ed. Le Mon., xiii. 159, 170; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Burckhardt, 640, 647, 756, 758; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 494.

BROOK, Thomas Gainsborough, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 4 ft. 11 in. A wagoner, standing at left on a rustic foot-bridge, is endeavouring to start up his team of four horses tandem, which have stopped to drink at a brook. Sometimes called the Watering Place. Vernon Gallery; purchased in 1838 for £220 10s. Engraved by J. C. Bentley in Art Journal.—Brock-Arnold, 25; Art Journal (1849), 72.

BROSAMER, HANS, born probably at Fulda between 1480 and 1490, died at Erfurt about 1554. German school; portrait painter. One of the Little Masters, and more notable as an engraver than as a painter. Works: Male Portrait (1520), Vienna Museum; others in private galleries in Cologne and Vienna.—Scott, Little Masters, 121; Allgem. d. Biog., iii. 363; W. & W., ii. 433; Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 494.

BROUILLET, (PIERRE) ANDRÉ, born at Charroux (Vienne); contemporary. History and portrait painter, pupil of Gérôme and J. P. Laurens. Medal: 3d class, 1884. Works: Violation of the Tomb of Urgel (1881); Women of Paris going to Versailles in 1789 to demand Bread (1882); At the Dockyard (1883); Exorcism (1884); Jewish Wedding at Constantine (1885), M. Chateau.

BROUWER (Brauwer), ADRIAEN, born at Oudenarde in 1605 or 1606, died in Antwerp, buried Feb. 1, 1638. Flemish school; genre painter, and one of the great masters in this line; influenced by Pieter Brueghel the elder, and by Rubens. Houbraken's assertion that he was a pupil of Frans Hals cannot be substantiated. If he went to Holland at all, it was not until about 1630, when he was a finished artist. He was registered in the Antwerp guild between Sept. 18, 1631, and Sept. 18, 1632. Works: Tavern Interior (2), Smoker, two others, Louvre; Drinkers at Table, Brawl in a Tavern, Brussels Museum; two Peasant Scenes, Cassel Gallery; Surgical Operation and two others, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Peasants at Cards, Spanish Soldiers at Dice, two Surgical Scenes, Fiddler in Tavern, Card Players fighting, and three others, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Fight of Three Peasants over Dice, Obedient Husband, Peasants' Brawl, three others, Dresden Gallery; Peasant asleep in a Tavern, Old Woman at Toilet, Smoker, Fray at Dice, and two others, Berlin Museum; Interior with Peas