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 BYLERT, JAN VAN, born at Utrecht, died there after 1669. Dutch school; genre painter, pupil of Abraham Bloemaert; went via France to Rome, where he worked for a number of years; returned to Utrecht about 1630 and became master of the guild; in 1632 and repeatedly afterward mentioned as its dean. His pictures are rare. Works: Family Pictures (3), Utrecht Museum; Laban and Rachel, Young Women with Ring, Rotterdam Museum; Young Woman, Cassel Gallery; Pancake Eater, Girl counting Money (1626), Girl with Zither, Brunswick Gallery; Family Scene, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; St. Sebastian, Harrach Gallery, ib.—Bode, Studien, 170; Kramm, i. 198; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 183.

BYSS, JOHANN RUDOLF, born at Solothurn, Switzerland, in 1660, died in Würzburg in 1738. German school; history, landscape, and animal painter; went to Italy about 1700, and was called to Vienna in 1704, by Leopold I., to paint the ceiling of the great audience room. Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Elector of Mayence, and Prince Bishop of Bamberg, employed him about 1712 to paint at Castle Gaibach, and after the building of Castle Pommersfelden, made him supervisor of its picture gallery. After his patron's death he lived at Würzburg. Works: Allegory, Paradise (2) with many Birds and Animals, Pommersfelden Gallery. Others in Bamberg, Würzburg, Schleissheim, and Vienna.—Allgem. d. Biog., iii. 679.

CABANEL, ALEXANDRE, born at Montpellier, Sept. 28, 1823. History, genre and portrait painter; pupil of Picot; won the grand prix de Rome in 1845; medal, 2d class, 1852; 1st class, 1855; of honour, 1865, 1867, 1878; L. of Honour, 1855; Officer, 1864; Commander, 1884; Member of Institute, 1863. Professor in the École des Beaux Arts. He painted previous to 1861 in the classical style of David, of which no trace is visible in his later work. Works: Agony of Christ (1844); Death of Moses (1852), Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Chapel-Master's Window (1859); Expulsion from Paradise (1863), Maximilianeum, Munich; Giacomina (1872); John the Baptist (1874); Apotheosis of St. Louis (1855), Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta (1870), Rape of the Nymph, Birth of Venus (1863), Thamar (1875), Luxembourg; Portia in Merchant of Venice (1881); Venetian Lady of 6th century (1882); portraits of Rouher (1861), Napoleon III. (1864), Mr. Mackay (1879), and others. Works in United States: Lucretia and Tarquinius Sextus (1877), Ruth and Boaz, Samuel Hawk Collection, New York; Shulamite (1876), Portrait of a Lady, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York; Florentine Poet, Desdemona, J. H. Warren, Hoosac Falls, N. Y.; Florentine Poet, St. Aglaia and St. Boniface, Israel Corse, New York; Angel of the Ave Maria, D. T. Buzby, Baltimore; Ginevra Amieri, Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland; Pandora (1873), Portrait of Mlle. Nilsson, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Eve after the Fall, H. L. Dousman, St. Louis; Eve after the Expulsion, S. A. Coale, St. Louis; Penelope, Mrs. C. Crocker, San Francisco; Italian Maiden, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia; Evening Star, W. P. Bement, Philadelphia; Phœdra, Mr. Leiter, Chicago; Phædra (1880), J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Magdalen at the Tomb, C. P. Huntington, New York; Echo, C. S. Smith, New York; Samson and Delilah, Wm. Astor, New York; Pia de Tolomei, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; Birth of Venus, H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia; do., J. Wolfe, New York; Marguérite, J. T. Raynor, New