BRENNER scape painter ; pupil of Copenhagen Acad- emy ; visited Portugal in 1839, Rome in 1847-50 and 1857-61. Member of Copen- hagen Academy, and Order of Danebrog in 1874. "Works: View on Ise Fjord (1835); Views near Frederiksvaerk and Ros- kilde, do. on Coast of Oresund ; Landscapes on Duero River ; do. on the Rhine ; Views in Switzerland ; Temple of Vesta at Tivoli (1851) ; Villa Poniatowsky outside Porta del Popolo ; Italian Landscapes ; Views in Denmark. Sigurd Muller, 53 ; Weilbach, 81. BRENNER, ADAM, born in Vienna, Dec. 21, 1800. German school ; history painter ; pupil of Vienna Academy ; painted at first still-life and genre ; studied in Mu- nich about 1844, after the great modern masters of Germany. Works : Tinker fright- ening Child, Dead Game (1833), Burial of St. Stephen (1835), Vienna Museum ; Res- cue of Ferdinand II. by the Dampierre Cuirassiers ; Raising of Siege of Belgrade. Wiirzbach, ii. 132. BRESCIA, ALTARPIECE OF, Titian, SS. Nazaro e Celso, Brescia ; wood, five pan- els, figures life-size ; signed and dated 1522. Middle panel, the Resurrection; at sides, St. Sebastian, Averoldo with patron saints, and the Annunciation in two panels. The St. Sebastian is best preserved ; other panels injured by repainting. Painted for the Papal Legate Altobello Averoldo, and placed on the high altar of SS. Nazaro e Celso, but now between two windows of the choir. C. & C., Titian, i. 236, 247 ; Burck- hardt, 717 ; Ch. Blanc, flcole venitienne. BRESSANO, VINCENZO. See Civer- chio, Vincenzo. BREST, GERMAIN FABIUS, born in Marseilles, July 31, 1823. Landscape and architecture painter ; pupil of Loubon and of Troyon ; has travelled extensively in Turkey and Asia. Works : Turkish Coffee-House in Constantinople (1857); Walls of Constan- tinople (1857); Banks of the Bosporus (1861), Luxembourg Museum ; Caravansary in Trapezunt (1864); Ceremony of Kissing the Hand in Constantinople, Grand Canal in Venice (1866); Ponte Rialto in Venice, Interior of Pastry-Bakery (1867); Fisheries on the Bosporus (1868); Mosque in Trape- zunt (1870); Khan of the Sultana Valide at Constantinople (1872) ; Bridge of Sighs (1874) ; St. John's Church at Beauvais (1877) ; ! Entrance to the Bosporus, The Platane of Godfrey de Bouillon (1878). Muller, 76;
- Vapereau (1880), 299.
BRETON, EMILE ADELARD, born at Courrieres ; con- temporary. Land- scape painter; brother and pu- pil of Jules Bre- ton. Medals: 1866, 1867, 1868; 1st class (1878); Philad e 1 phia (1876); Vienna (1873) ;L. of Hon- our (1878); Order of Leopold. Studio at Courrieres. Works : Morning Light, Sunset, Autumn (1861); Twilight in Au- tumn, Gust of Wind (1863); Summer Even- ing, Twilight (1865) ; A Pond (1866); Spring, Snow (1868); Sunset, Entrance of a Village (1869) ; Night, Brook of Orchiman (1870) ; Winter Morning, Winter Evening (1872); Sunset after Storm, Sunday Morn- ing in Winter (1873) ; Autumn, Twilight, Winter's Night (1874); Courrieres Canal, Artois Village in Winter, Shepherd's Star (1875); Winter, Marine View (1876); Summer Morning (1877); Winter, A Church (1879); Sunset at Sea before Storm, Snow in Artois (1880) ; The old Willows, Frost in Artois (1881); Summer Evening, Winter Evening (1882); Moonlight in Winter, Sunset in Au- tumn (1883); Mill Artois (1884) ; FaU of the Leaves, Evening after the Tempest (1885). Works in the United States : Village of Ar- tois in Winter, Snow Scene in Holland, C. Crocker, San Francisco ; Moonlight after Rain, J. G. Fell, Philadelphia ; Stream be- tween the Hills, H. R. Bishop, New York. Vapereau (1880), 300. 80S
