BLESSING unpleasant in tone. Works : Christ on the Cross, The Magdalen, St. Christopher carrying Infant Christ (attributed to Pate- nier), National Gallery, London ; Tempta- tion of St. Anthony, Brussels Museum ; Kepose in Egypt, Antwerp Museum ; Holy Family, Basle Museum ; St. Hubert Hunt- ing, Maurice Chapel, Nuremberg ; Adoration of the Magi (signed: Henricus Blessius F.), Angelic Salutation, Old Pinakothek, Mu- nich ; Male portrait with landscape, Berlin Museum ; Pedler robbed by Monkeys, Dres- den Gallery; Flight into Egypt (?), St. John Preaching, Good Samaritan, Walk to Emmaus, Kepose in Egypt (called style of Patenier), Museum, Vienna ; Christ bearing the Cross, St. John preaching, Academy, ib. ; St. Jerome in the Desert (attributed to Pate- nier), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Dante's In- ferno, Doge's Palace, Venice ; Tempta- tion of St. Anthony, Museo Civico, ib.; Tower of Babel, Academy, ib.; Madonna, Working a Mine, Uffizi, Florence ; Christ bearing the Cross, Palazzo Doria, Rome ; Landscapes (5), Naples Museum ; Adoration of the Magi (?), Milan Academy ; do. and Landscape (attributed to Patenier), Ma- drid Museum. Biogr. nat. de Belgique, ii. 471 ; Michiels, iv. 368, 391 ; ix. 115 ; Rie- gel, Beitrage, ii. 44 ; Booses (Reber), 114 ; W. & W., ii. 522 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, xv. 128. BLESSING THE HARVEST, (Benedic- tion des bles), Jules Breton, Luxembourg Museum ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. x 10 ft. 5 in. Ceremony of blessing the harvest in Artois. A procession, headed by young girls in white, followed by the priest under a canopy attended by choir boys, the village officials, and peasants in their old-fashioned holiday clothes, pass through the fields ; in fore- ground, women and children kneeling. Salon, 1857. Meyer, Gesck., 642. BLIND FIDDLER, Sir David Wilkie, National Gallery, London ; wood, H. 1 ft. J 11 in. x 2 ft. 7 in. An itinerant musician, seated at left, entertaining a cottager and his family by playing on his fiddle. Twelve figures ; accessories very elaborate. Painted in 1807 for Sir George Beaumont, who pre- sented it in 1826. Engraved by J. Burnet, T. Nicholson. Cat. Nat. Gal.; Heaton, Works of Sir D. W. ; Mollett, 26 ; Waagen, Art Treasures, i. 376. BLIND-MAN'S-BUFF, Sir David Wilkie, Buckingham Palace ; canvas. Cottagers playing blind-man's-buff in a kitchen. Painted in 1812 for George IV. when Prince Regent, who paid for it 300 guineas. Loan Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1883. Original sketch (1811) in National Gallery. En- graved by A. Raimbach, W. Greatbach. | Heaton, Works of Sir D. W. ; Mollett, 42, 46 ; Waagen, Art Treasures, ii. 25 ; Art Journal (1860), 108. BLOCK, ALEXANDRE, born in Paris; contemporary. Landscape and genre paint- er ; pupil of Gerome and Bastien-Lepage. Medal, 3d class, 1885. Works: At the Antiquary's (1880) ; Banks of Seine at Vaux (1881), M. Deloru-re; Crab Fisherman, Mill of Jarcy (1882); Willows of Bonneuil, Che- min du Chapitre at Cretail (1883); Place de la Chapelle Paris, Brook of Moc-Souris Morbihan (1884); Defence of Rochefort-en- Terre April 29, 1793 (1885). BLOCK, KARL HEINRICH, born in Copenhagen, May 23, 1834. Genre and his- tory painter ; pupil of Copenhagen Acad- emy ; studied from nature among peas- antry of Zealand and on coast of Jut- laud, and soon acquired reputation for hu- mourous pictures. Studio in Rome from 1859 to 1865. Since then has painted mostly historical subjects. He is a member of and professor at the Copenhagen Acad- emy. Medals in 1852, 1853, 1864 ; Order of Dauebrog, 1867. Works : Peasant's Cottage (1854) ; Fisherman's Family on Shore (1858); Repast (1859); Fisherman from Sorrento (1861), Copenhagen Gallery; inc
