BENZ BENZ, SEVERIN, born at Marbach, to a Young Girl (1836) ; Music Lesson St. Gall, Switzerland, March 14, 1834. His- (1837); Return to the Country (1838); tory, portrait, genre and landscape painter ; i Christ Asleep (1839); Consequences of Se- pupil of Munich Academy, under Anschiitz ! duction (1840) ; Guardian Angel (1846) ; and Piloty, then made a study trip to Ven- Peasant Family (1849) ; The Rich and Poor ice and North Italy. His religious paintings Children (1852); Children Surprised by are elevated in conception and brilliant in ' Rain (1853); Sleep, The Professor (1857); colour. Works : Christ Appearing to Mag- i Repentant Fisherman, Fruit-Seller (1859). dalen (1857); Bandits in Ambush, Mother's His daughter Susanne Estelle (Mme. Apoil), Happiness (1862) ; St. Joseph, Madonna, distinguished herself as a flower and fruit Resurrection (1863) ; Come, ye that are painter. Medal, 2d class, 1858. Meyer, heavy-laden ! Descent from the Cross j Kiinst. Lex., iii. 570 ; Larousse, ii. 563. (1866); Crucifixion, Christ and the Woman BERANGER, CHARLES, born at Sevres, of Samaria (1869) ; Landscape at Wallensee ; Nov. 21, 1816, died in Paris, May 15, 1853. Flight into Egypt (1879) ; Christ on the Still-life, animal, genre, and portrait paint- Cross (1883). In fresco: Siege of Carmagn- er ; son of preceding; pupil of Ecole des ola by the Elector Max Emanuel in 1691 > Beaux Arts and of Delaroche. Medals : 3d (1865), National Museum, Munich. Meyer, class, 1839 ; 2d class, 1840. Works : Kitch- Kiinst. Lex., iii. 565. en Interior (1837) ; Scene in Life of Hen- BENZON, CHRISTIAN ALBRECHT ; riette of France (1839); Peasant Woman at VON, born in Copenhagen, June 11, 1816, the Well, Maid watering Horse, Laundress died in Paris, Sept. 30, 1849. Historical and i (1840); Fruit-seller's Booth (1842); View of genre painter; pupil of Copenhagen Acad-jMarcho des Jacobins, Dog Portraits (1846); emy ; went to Diisseldorf in 1840 or 1841, Dog and Game (1848) ; Dogs Running, to Paris in 1845, where he received a gold < Working Horses, Child with Chickens medal from Louis Philippe. Works : Last I (1851) ; Two Roosters (1853). Meyer, KUnst. Confession (1842); Sinner on his Deathbed, Lex., iii. 571. Death of Don Juan ; Death of St. Canut BERANGER, EMILE (JEAN BAPTISTE (1844) ; Norman Chief taking Italian City j ANTOINE), born at Sevres, Aug. 30, 1814. (1846); Louis IV. of France recognizing at Rouen Richard I. and Descendants as Dukes Genre painter ; brother of preceding ; first employed in decorating porcelain at Suvres of Normandy, Town Hall, Rouen. Weil- with his father, Antoine B. His favourite bach, 56. subjects are young women of the working BERANGER, ANTOINE, born in Paris, , class in pretty costumes, fresh and clear in May 19, 1785, died at Sevres, April 21, colour. Medals : 3d class, 1846 ; 2d class, 1867. History, genre, and portrait painter ; 1848. Works : Simon Memmi painting studied under several masters, and was one | Laura (1840) ; Seamstress, Young Girl of the best artists of the older school. For boiling Milk (1846); Day after the Ball, years employed at the porcelain factory at Sevres, and contributed largely to its ce- Reading Lesson, Hiding a Letter (1848); Order and Disorder (1863); First Joys lebrity. Medals : 3d class, 1839 ; 2d class, , (1864) ; The New Maid (1866) ; Hopeful 1840 ; L. of Honour, 1841. Works : Wo- Lad (1868) ; Young Mother, Wm. H. Van- man and Children at Husband's Grave derbilt, New York ; Bouquet, C. Parsons, (1814); Autumn (1819); Wandering Musi- St. Louis; Voice of the Shell, T. Dolan, cians ; Rural Wedding (1822) ; Seduction ! Philadelphia ; Fair Oyster-Opener, Glass of (1824); Susanna (1827) ; Young Shepherd Lemonade, Where has it Gone ? Mrs. R L. Asleep, Wounded Traveller (1833); Prisoner [ Stuart, New York; Consoling the Widow, (1835) ; Old Man interpreting a Holy Book C. P. Huntington, New York ; Madam's
