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 executed, while the other prepares to meet his fate; in background, architecture. Collection of Louis XIII.; Salon, 1812; acquired in 1819 for 15,000 fr.—Réveil, x. 659.

BRUYCKER, FRANÇOIS ANTOINE DE, born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1816. Genre painter; pupil of Ghent Academy, and in Antwerp of Ferd. de Braekeleer. Gold medal in 1860; member of Amsterdam Academy. Works: Suspicion (1842), Wooing, Dost Remember? Hot Shells, Spring Day, Old Gardener (1857), The Widow (1860), Reminiscence of Olden Times, Funny Idea, Motherly Caresses, Child and Kitten (Leipsic Museum), Envy and Distrust.—Art Journal (1866), 75; Müller, 84.

BRUYN (Brun), BARTHEL, born in Cologne in 1494, died there between 1556 and 1557. German school; history and portrait painter; formed himself after Jan Schoreel, the painter of the Death of the Virgin, and in his portraits resembled Holbein. Later he became a weak imitator of the Italian masters, especially of Michelangelo. Works: Martyrdom of St. Ursula, Adoration of the Magi, Burgomaster Browiller, do. and Wife, Two Male Portraits, Old Lady of the Questenberg Family, Cologne Museum; Corpus Christi, Cologne Cathedral; St. Catherine and 18 others, Munich Gallery; Madonna, Burgomaster Ryth, Berlin Museum; Portraits in Städel Gallery, Frankfort, in Gotha, Brunswick, and Brussels Galleries; Altarpiece in St. Victor's Church, Xanten (masterpiece).—Allgem. d. Biog., iii. 456; Merlo, Nachrichten, 69; W. & W., ii. 497.

BRYES, Greek painter, of Sicyon, father and master of Pausias, 4th century,

BUCHSER, FRANZ, born at Feldbrunnen, near Solothurn, Switzerland, about 1829(?). Genre and portrait painter; studied in Rome, Paris, and Antwerp; went to Spain at the age of twenty-two, and thence to England, where for three years he painted genre pictures, but more especially horses and portraits; in 1857 he returned to Spain, visited Morocco soon after, and again, during the Spanish campaign of 1860, in the suite of Gen. O'Donnell. Having returned to Switzerland he went in 1866 to America, where he spent five years. Works: Three Friends; Return from Market, Jews of Mekiness (1862); Mowers (1867); Mary Blanc (1869); Negro Picture (1870); Resignation (1867), Negro Soldiers in Streets of Washington, Rapids of St. Mary on Lake Superior, Basle Museum; Caught by the Tide (1879); Singer of Sudan (1881). Portraits of Generals Lee and Sherman, Secretary Sherman, etc.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1873), ii. 140; Kunst-Chronik, xiv. 605; xvi. 657.

BUCKWHEAT HARVEST (La Récolte du Sarrasin), Jean François Millet, Martin Brimmer, Boston. In foreground, a woman binding sheaves, which another is packing in a pannier; behind them, several women carrying panniers to background, where men are threshing. This picture is the original pastel, made in 1868, which passed from the Garet Collection, Paris, to Mr. Brimmer. The oil picture, painted from it in 1874 and one of the last pictures on which Millet worked, was sold at the Frederic Hartmann sale, Paris (1881), for 47,000 francs. Etched by Charles Courtry.—Gaz. des. B. Arts (1875), XI. 438.

BUECKLAER (Beukelaar), JOACHIM, born in Antwerp in 1530, died after 1575. Flemish school; genre painter, pupil of Pieter Aertszen. Registered in the Antwerp guild in 1560. His subjects are chiefly market and kitchen scenes, also biblical events admitting of combination with genre. Works: Purveyor, Lille Museum; Christ before Pilate (1561), Fish-Market (1568), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Christ healing the Lame (1575), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 382; Michiels, vi. 304; Rooses (Reber), 73.

BUFFALMACCO, BUONAMICO, 14th century, died after 1351. Florentine school; real name Cristofani Buonamico. According to Vasari, he died in 1340 at the age of seventy-eight, but his name appears in the list of the Florentine Company of Painters of 1351, and Baldinucci says that he lived later