BLANCHE! and assisting Horace Le BLanc ; then spent two years at Koine, and some time at Venice, where bystudy of the old mas- tershesomuch improved as a colourist that on his return home he was called the French Titian. He painted ! now destroyed works in the Hotel Perault and Hotel Bul- lion, Paris, and in Turin the loves of Venus and Adonis for the Duke of Savoy. Works : Holy Family, The Virgin and St. Anne, Charity, St. Paul, Louvre. Ch. Blanc, Ecole frai^aise. BLANCHET, THOMAS, born in Paris, in 1617, died in Lyons, in 1689. French school; studied in Italy under Albani, Andrea Sacclii, and Poussin. After his return painted a St. Paul for Notre Dame (1663), and then settled in Lyons, where he decorated the Hotel de Ville, and founded an Academy (1681), from ' which proceeded many able artists. Nearly i all his works were destroyed in 1793. Ch. Blanc, Ecole fran^aise ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1874), x. 278. BLANCKARTS, MORITZ, born in Dus- seldorf, April 16, 1839, died in Stuttgart, April 12, 1883. Battle painter ; pupil of Pliischke and of Vautier, then at Dttsseldorf Academy under Christian Kuhler, in 1857 of Leutze, and in 1858-59 of Hiinten ; and completed his studies by travels through Germany and Belgium. Works : Death of Korner (1859); Death of Major Schill (1860); York at Mockern (1863) ; King William at Koniggriitz (1867); Death of Col. Auerswald (1872); Bazaine at Mars la Tour(1873); Death of Col. Count Finkenstein (1874) ; Prince Leopold of Coburg at Kulm (1875) ; Depar- ture ; Hussars at the Inn ; Crown Prince of Prussia greeting the Bavarians after the Vic- tory of Worth. Ulustr. Zeitg. (1876), ii. 117; Miiller, 55 ; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 466. BLASHFIELD, EDWIN HOWLAND, born in New York, Dec. 25, 1848. Subject painter ; pupil of Bonnat in Paris. Visited Europe in 1867, remaining abroad eleven years. Member of Society of American Ar- tists. Elected an A.N.A. in 1882. Studio in New York. Works : Emperor Commodus leaving the Amphitheatre at the head of the Gladiators (1878); Roman Woman (1879); The Besieged (1880); Souvenir of Mentone; Toreador (1881) ; Music, Suspense, Autumn (1882) ; Allegretto, Andante, Minute Men (1883) ; Decorative Panels, Morning, etc. (1884), H. McK Twombly, New York. BLAU, TINA, born in Vienna, Nov. 15, 1847. Landscape painter ; pupil in Vienna of August Schiiffer, and in Munich of Linden- schmit. Has travelled in Bohemia, Hun- gary, Holland, and repeatedly visited Italy. Works : Regulation of the Danube near Vi- enna ; Autumn in the Prater ; Canal near Amsterdam ; Autumn Day in Holland ; Arch of Titus in Rome ; Street in Venice ; View near Szolnok ; Bavarian Landscape ; Outside the City; Rain and Sunshine; Field-Flowers, April-Day, Spring in the Prater (1883). Mtiller, 55. BLAUVELT, CHARLES F., born in New York, in 1824. Genre painter ; pupil of the National Academy, and of Charles L. Elliot. Professional life passed in New York and Philadelphia. Elected N.A. in 1859, mem- ber of Pennsylvania Academy in 1864, made assistant professor of drawing at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, in 1878. Works : Warming Up ; Lost Child ; Night Signal ; Waiting for the Train ; Inquiring the Way ; Preparing for School ; Snowed In ; Burned Out ; Entrance to Old Fort Severn Annapolis (1880). BLECHEN, KARL EDUARD, born at Kottbus, July 29, 1798, died in Berlin, July 23, 1840. Landscape painter ; studied at the Berlin Academy. In 1827 went to Italy and thenceforth painted chiefly Italian land- scapes. From 1830 he taught at the Berlin Academy, of which he was made member and professor in 1835. Works : Camp near 1G4
