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bigny. Medals: 3d class, 1875; 2d class, 1877. Works : Dessert, Lobster (1875) ; Prawns, Preparations for Dessert (1877) ; Flies' Feast, War Art Eeligion (1880); Lucky Day, Present from Pomona (1881); The Tide (1882); For the Fete-Days, Salt and Fresh Water Crustaceans (1883); Thrushes, Rai- sins (1884). BERGERET, PIERRE NOLASQUE, born in Bordeaux, Feb. 2, 1782, died in Paris, Feb. 21, 1863. History, genre, and portrait painter ; pupil of Lticour, the elder (1745-1814), of Vincent and of David ; ex- hibited first in the Salon of 1806, when he won the grand prix. Medal : 1st class, 1808. Works: Raphael's Obsequies (1806); Francis I. and Henry VHI. on the Field of the Cloth of Gold (1808); Charles V. pick- ing up Titian's Brush (1808), Portrait of Louis Philippe, Museum, Bordeaux ; Christ Crowned with Thorns, Cathedral, ib.; St. Louis in Prayer, Notre Dame, ib. ; Czar Alexander presenting to Napoleon the Cal- niucks, Cossacks, and Bashkirs of the Rus- sian Army (1810), Versailles Gallery ; Henry IV. on his Bier, Meeting at Tilsit of Alex- ander and Napoleon (1810); Anne Boleyn listening to her Sentence (1814) ; Francis I. writing Verses inspired by Agnes Sorel (1817), Rembrandt in his Studio (183C), Foutainebleau ; Homer Reciting, Michel- angelo, grown blind, touching an An- tique Torso (1817); St. Louis at Dami- etta, Lippo Lippi delivered from Captivity, Poussin's Obsequies (1819); Court of Mar- guerite of Navarre, Charles V. in Prison, Tintoretto and Aretino (1822); Shipwreck of Charles V. (1824); Claude Lorrain and Innocent X. (1831); Death of Titian (1833); Excavation of the Laocoon, Soliman H. buy- ing Roxelana, Henry H. and Diana of Poitiers (1835); Education of Jupiter, Republic Tri- umphant (1849); Charity, Death of Colum- bus (1851). Larousse, ii. 582 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 606. BERGH, JOHAN EDVARD, born in Stockholm, March 29, 1828, died there, Sept. 23, 1880. Landscape painter ; pupil of the Stockholm Academy ; won first prize in 1853, and studied then in Diisseldorf under Gude and in Geneva under Calame. Travelled in 1856-57 in Italy ; became, after his return, member of, and in 1861 professor in, the Stockholm Academy. Med- als in Stockholm (1866) and Paris (1867). Works : Wood-Interior, Stockholm Mu- seum ; Beech- Wood, Magnus, Gothenburg ; Veblungsniis in Romsdal, Astrup, Stock- ' holm ; View of Stockholm, Prince of Wales ; View in Dalecarlia, Becker, Amsterdam. Brockhaus, ii. 819. BERGHE, AUGUSTINUS VAN DEN, born at Bruges in 1756, died at Beauvais, France, in 1836. History, landscape, and portrait painter ; pupil in Bruges Academy of J. A. Geremyn, then from 1780 in Paris Academy of Suvee ; won prize in 1782, re- turned to Flanders in 1791, won prize in Ghent Academy in 1796, and became pro- fessor at the cole centrale at Beauvais. Works : Coriolanus with his Family (1786); CEdipus at Colonus ; Death of Adonis ; St. Anthony of Padua in Ecstasy, Notre Dame, Bruges ; CEdipus cursing his Son Polynices (1796), Ghent Museum. Immerzeel, i. 46. BERGHE, CHARLES AUGUSTE VAN DEN, born at Beauvais (Oise), in 1798, died in Paris, Dec. 17 (Nov. 19 ?), 1853. History and portrait painter ; son of preced- ing, pupil of Girodet and Gros. Medal, 2d class, 1833; L. of Honour, 1839. Works : Quentin Durward and Louis XL, Portrait of Bertini (1833); Descent from the Cross, Temptation of St. Anthony, Magdalen Penitent (1836); Alice and Cora ; portraits of Generals Vaubois and Greard, of j the composer Koutski, and others. Meyer, Ktinst. Lex., iii. 612. BERGHEM. See Berchem. BERGLER, JOSEF, born in Salzburg, May 1, 1753, died in Prague, June 25, 1829. History painter ; pupil of his father, the sculptor J. B., the elder (1708-88), in Pas- sau, then from 1776-79 of Martin Knoller i in Milan, and in 1786 of Maron in Rome.

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