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 Daughter of Premysl, Ottokar I. taken from Convent by Waldemar of Denmark (1876); The Good Friend (1876); Embassy of Ladislaus of Bohemia to Charles VII. of France (1878), National Gallery, Berlin; Game of Chess (1879); Meeting of Charles IV. with Petrarch and Laura at Avignon (1879); Reading the Bible, M. K. Jessup, New York; Condemnation of John Huss by Council of Constance in 1415 (1883); My Children (1884); First Presentation (1885).—Müller, 82.

BRUANDET, LAZARE, born in Paris in 1755, died there in 1803. Landscape painter, in style of Ruisdael. Painted forest views with success. Work: View in Forest of Fontainebleau (1785), Louvre.—Siret, 142; Ch. Blanc, École française.

BRUCK, LAJOS (Louis), born at Papa, Hungary, Nov. 3, 1846. Genre painter; pupil of Vienna Academy; studied in 1869-72 in Italy, especially in Venice, where he was for a short time a pupil of the Academy; also pupil in Paris of Munkacsy. Works: Unwilling Scholar, D. W. Powers, Rochester, N. Y.; Love Letter, M. K. Jessup, New York; Departure for the City (1877); The Letter (1878); Forsaken (1879); Suitable Outfit (1880); Fruit Girl, H. V. Newcomb, New York; Children at Play, J. W. Drexel, New York; Noonday Rest (1883); Foundery (1884); L'avare (1885).—Müller, 82.

BRUCKMANN, FERDINAND ALEXANDER, born at Ellwangen, Feb. 21, 1806, died in Stuttgart, Feb. 9, 1852. History and portrait painter; pupil of Wächter in Stuttgart, in 1826, and of H. von Hess in Munich, in 1827-29. In 1829 he went to Rome, and returned to Munich in 1833, when he painted in the king's bedchamber fourteen subjects from Theocritus, partly after sketches by Hess, partly after his own. From 1840 he painted almost exclusively portraits, in Stuttgart, temporarily also in Ulm, Augsburg, and Zürich. Became insane in consequence of an accident in 1835, and eventually committed suicide. Works: Barbarossa's Body taken out of the Calycadnus, Women of Weinsberg, Thusnelda in Captivity, Stuttgart Gallery; The Maiden from Afar, Royal Castle, Friedrichshafen; The Sirens, Romeo and Juliet, Birth of Venus, St. Lucas, Allegories of the Fine Arts.—Allgem. d. Biogr., iii. 397; Raczynski, ii. 205.

BRUEGHEL (Breughel), JAN, called Fluweelen (Velvet) Bruegel, born in Brussels in 1568, died in Antwerp, Jan 13, 1625. Flemish school; son of Peeter B. the elder; painted chiefly landscapes, but also genre and mythological subjects, animals and still life; pupil at Antwerp of Peeter Goetkint, but mostly self-taught; highly gifted and versatile. After a sojourn in Italy (1593-96), settled at Antwerp, where he was master of the guild in 1597, dean in 1602; a citizen in 1601. Was in Nuremberg in 1616. His works are characterized by realism, finish to the finest details, brilliancy of colour, and correct perspective. Though a conscientious and industrious artist, he was a rapid worker; greatly esteemed by his contemporaries, he had a lasting influence, and trained several pupils and followers of renown; often worked conjointly with Van Balen, Rottenhammer, and Rubens, with whom he was allied in close friendship. Works: The Five Senses (7), The Four Elements (4), Sciences and Arts, Earthly Paradise (3), Park of Brussels, thirty-seven others, Madrid Museum; Landscape (1600), Bridge of Talavera (1610), Earthly Paradise (1611), The Air (1621), three others, Louvre, Paris; Sermon of St. Norbert at Antwerp, Autumn, Brussels Museum; Pietà (figures by Rubens), Antwerp Museum; Earthly Paradise (figures by Rubens), Flight into Egypt (figures by Rottenhammer), City on