BOWLES Bishop, Eastlake Collection, London ; Le- gend of Emperor Otto III, Last Supper, Brussels Museum ; Coronation of the Vir- BEACHT, FELIX PROSPER EUGEN, born at Merges on Lake Geneva. June 3, 1842. Landscape painter; pupil of the gin, Vienna Museum. C. & C., Flemish Carlsruhe Art School, and from 1861 in Dtis- Painters, 321 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole flamande ; seldorf, under Gude ; gave up painting in Dohme, li.; Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 877; 1864 and was for ten years a cotton broker ; Michiels, iii. 234 ; iv. 455 ; V. & W., ii. 40. returned in 1875 to Carlsruhe, and has BOWLES, MISS, Sir Joshua Reynolds, since then exhibited some excellent pictures. Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., Hertford House, : Medal, Carlsruhe, 1877. Works : Idyl from London ; canvas. A young girl seated on ! Heath of Liineburg ; Giant's Grave on Ltine- the ground, caressing a spaniel; background, burg Heath ; Stormy Evening on Riigen ; landscape, with lowering sky. Called also Miss Bowles and her Dog, Girl with Dog, Painted in 1775 by Marquis of and Juvenile Amusement, for 50 guineas ; bought Hertford for 1,000 guineas. Engraved by W. Ward (1798), W. Fry, C. Turner, J. Gro- zer, S. Cousins. Athen., March, 1875, 365. Shepherd on the Heath ; Sandy Road in the Heath; Landscape on Rugen(1879). Exhibi- ted at Munich (1883), Moonlight Night in the Desert, On the Dead Sea. Midler, 72. BRACKETT, WALTER M., born at Unity, Me., in 1823. Self-taught; first painted portraits and ideal heads, later very BOXALL, Sir WILLIAM, born at Ox- successful in painting fish. President of the ford, June 26, 1800, died in London, Dec. J Boston Art Club many years. Studio in 6, 1879. Student of the Royal Academy in Boston. Works : After the Battle, Earl of 1819 ; visited Italy in 1827 and 1833, and Dufferiu ; A Series of pictures : Rise, Leap, repeatedly after he became director of Last Struggle, Landed, Sir Richard Potter, the National Gallery. When young he exe- j London ; Trout Picture, Grisle (1881). cuted a few subject pictures, among them BRADAMANTE AND FIORDASPINA, Jupiter and Latona (1823), Contention of Guido Reni, Uffizi, Florence ; canvas. Brada- Michael and Satan for the Body of Moses mante, near a fountain, listens to Fiordas- (1824), Milton's Reconciliation with his j pina, who relates the sad adventure of Wife (1829), and Lear and Cordelia (1831), Roger (Orlando Furioso, Canto L). Procured but finally devoted himself to portraiture, | in 1667 from the Casino Mediceo, near S. among his sitters being Wordsworth, Lan- Marco, Florence. Soc. Ed. et Paris, PI. 117. dor, Lord Coleridge, Gibson, Copley Field- BRADFORD, WILLIAM, born at New ing (National Portrait Gallery), Allan Cun- ; Bedford, Mass., about 1830. Marine paint- ningham, the Prince Consort, and other eminentmen. Became an A.R.A. in 1851 and er ; self-taught, but influenced by Van Beest, whose studio at Fairhaven he shared R.A. in 1863 ; succeeded Sir Charles East- for two years. Began by painting ships in lake as director of the National Gallery in the harbour at Lynn, Mass., and on the 1865, retired on account of ill-health in 1874, ! coasts of Labrador and Nova Scotia ; after- and in 1871 was knighted. Cat. Nat. Gal.; wards made several Arctic expeditions with Athenaeum, Dec. 13, 1879; Sandby, ii. Dr. Hayes, the explorer, and others, to study icebergs and ice-floes, and from the sketches painted pictures which were ex- 326. BOYLE, FERDINAND T. L., born in the United States, contemporary. Genre hibited in London and bought by the painter. Is an associate of the National j Queen, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, and the Academy. Studio in New York. Gran'ther's Pet (1884). Work : BOZACCO or BOZZATO. See Bazacco. Marchioness of Lome. Elected A.N.A. in 1874. Studio in New York. Works: Steamer Panther among Icebergs in Mel- BRACCHETONE, IL. See Volterra. ville Bay under Light of Midnight Sun, 194
