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 returned to Verona master of a refined and elegant style. Many of his works are in the churches of Verona, among the best of which is St. Helena in S. Elena. There is a Holy Family by him in the Louvre, and a Victory of the Veronese at Desenzano in the Verona Gallery. His sister Cecilia, who studied under her father, was an excellent portrait painter.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Bernasconi, 349.

BRUSH, GEORGE DE FOREST, born in Shelbyville, Tenn., in 1855. Figure painter, pupil of the National Academy; member of Society of American Artists; professor of antique class, Art Student's League. Studio in New York. Works: Mourning her Brave, T. B. Clarke, New York; Portrait of A. C. Brush (1882).

BRÜTT, FERDINAND, born in Hamburg, July 13, 1849. Genre painter, pupil at Weimar art school of Pauwels; settled in 1876 in Düsseldorf. Works: Disturbed Rest, Peasant Delegation, The Prince on the Promenade, Pilgrims Returning, Visit at the Studio, Power of Music, The Petitioner.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1877), ii. 327; (1878), i. 67.

Brutus, Louis David, Louvre, Paris.

BRUTUS, Jean Louis David, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 10 ft. 8 in. × 13 ft. 10 in.; signed, dated Paris, 1789. Brutus, returned home after the punishment of his sons, is seated at left in the shadow of the statue of Roma, holding in his hands the written evidence of their guilt; at right, his wife and daughters are overcome with grief at the sight of the lictors in the background bearing the bodies of the young men. Painted for Louis XVI. Salon, 1789.—Landon, Musée, x. Pl. 37; Villot, Cat. Louvre.

By G. G. Lethière, Louvre; canvas, H. 14 ft. 4 in. × 25 ft. Brutus, with Collatinus, his colleague, on his right, sits on a platform over-*looking the place of execution, with the senators behind him; in the centre, two lictors raise the body of one of the sons, already