BRfiTON BRfiTON, JULES ADOLPHE, born at Courrieres (Pas-de-Calais), May 1, 1827. Genre painter ; pu- pil of Drolling and Devigne, whose daughter he mar- ried ; one of the best French paint- ers of village and country life. Med- als : 3d class, 1855 ; 2d class, 1857 ; 1st class, 1859, 1861, 1867 ; medal of honour, 1872 ; L. of Honour, 1861 ; Officer, 1867. Works : Misery and Despair (1849); Harvesters' Return (1853); The Gleaners, I. Pereire ; The Day after St. Sebastian, Little Peasant Girls telling Fort- unes (1855); Planting a Cemetery, Lille Museum ; Blearing the Harvest (1857), Re- call of the Gleaner* (1859), Evening (1861), The Gle.aiwr (1877), Luxembourg Museum; The Fire, Weed Gatherers (1861), Comte Duchatel ; Consecration of the Church of Oignies, M. de Clerq ; Haymaker, Return- ing from Fields (1863); Vintage at Chateau Lagrange, Comte Duchatel ; Reading, Tur- key Keeper (1864); End of the Day, Blue Monday, Recall of the Gleaners (1865); Spring of Water near the Sea, Harvest-Time (1867); Women gathering Potatoes, Helio- trope (1868); Plenary Indulgence in Brit- tany, Bad Grass (1869); Breton Washer- women, Woman Spinning (1870); Girl tending Cows, The Fountain (1872); The Cliff, When the Cat's away the Mice will play (1874); St. John (1875); Village Girl (1879); Evening (1880); Artois Woman (1881); Evening at Finistere (1882); The Rainbow, Morning (1883); Communicants (1884); Last Ray, Song of the Lark (1885). Works in the United States : Peasant Girl Knitting, Grand Pardon in Brittany, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York ; Gleaner, Samuel Hawk Collection, New York ; Harvest, W. Rockefeller, New York ; Lookout, R C. Taft, Providence ; Fleur de Sable, J. Carey Coale, Baltimore ; Gleaners, H. Probasco, Cincinnati ; Tired Gleaner, Hurlbut Collec- tion, Cleveland; Sea Bird, D. Catlin, St Louis ; Burning Brushwood, Little Glean- er's Rest, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadel- phia ; Departure for the Fields, G. Whitney, Philadelphia ; Evening, A. Spencer, New York ; Breton Washerwomen at the Sea- shore, E. D. Morgan Collection, New York ; Gathering Water-Lilies, Peasant Woman, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn ; Tired Gleaner, C. S. Smith, New York ; Overdrawn Score, J. Hoey, New York ; Close of the Day, Sunny Day, Repose, W. T. Walters, Baltimore ; Potato Harvest, H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia ; Brittany Woman, Rainbow, W. H. Vander- bilt, New York ; Reaper's Rest, Wm. Astor, New York. Larousse ; Meyer, Gesch., 642 ; Portfolio (1875), 2. BRETT, JOHN, born in England ; con- temporary. Landscape and marine painter ; studio at Putney. Elected an A.R.A. in 1881. Works : Spires of Channel Islands (1875); Sir Thomas's Tower (1876); Cornish Lions (1877); Carnarvon Bay (1878); Stronghold of the Seison (1879) ; Britan- nia's Realm, Sandy Shallows of Seashore (1880); St. Ives Bay, Golden Prospects St. Catherine's Well (1881); Falling Barom- eter, Grey of the Morning (1882); Yellow Sands, Welsh Dragons (1883); Norman Archipelago (1885). Art Journal (1882), 57. BREU (Brew, Prew), JORG (Georg), died in Augsburg, 1536. German school ; prob- ably pupil of Hans Burgkmair, whose style his pictures recall, as well as that of Altdorfer. The anatomi- T T *"T cal treatment of his figures J ^ is defective, but his land- scape backgrounds are re- markable. Works : Ma- donna, Berlin Museum (1512); Battle of Zama, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Madonna (1523), Ambras Collec- t }>
