Naples, Chartres Museum; Joseph led into Captivity, Daphnis and Chloe, Crow Lake (1864); Gypsies Travelling (1865); Road from Chateldon to Montpeyroux, Banks of the Thérain (1866); Arabs running from a Fire, Saw-mill on the River Sillet (1868); The Last Fine Days, Environs of Medeah (1869); Mountains of Lachant (1870); Road from Boghar to Boussaada, Environs of Cassis (1873); Environs of Allevard (1874); From Constantine to Batna (1875); Arabs Looking for Camping Ground (1876); Vivarais, Road from Medeah to Boghar (1879); Environs of Toulon, Across Algeria (1880); Ravine of Constantine, Arabian Improviser, Lachaux Road (1881); View in Trani, Saw-*mill in Valley of Thérain (1882); Kabylia, Environs of Puy-Guillaume (1883); Castle of Chateldon, Approach to Biskra (1885).—Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 768, 777; Müller, 39; Vapereau, 175.
BELLER, ALEXANDER IVANOVICH,
born in St. Petersburg, Aug. 5, 1804, died
there, Feb. 25, 1870. Pupil of Venezianoff
and of the St. Petersburg Academy. Was
a deaf mute, and devoted his whole life to
the art education of deaf mutes. Works:
Room in a Palace, Peasant's Room (1833),
Twelve Pictures of Saints for Deaf-Mute
Asylum, and Obuchow Hospital, St. Petersburg.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 375.
BELLERMANN, FERDINAND, born at
Erfurt, March 14, 1814. Landscape painter;
pupil, under Blechen, of the Berlin Academy
and of Schirmer, visited with Friedrich
Preller in 1839 Rügen, in 1840 the Netherlands
and Norway, and in 1842, on Humboldt's
suggestion, was sent to South
America by King Frederick William IV.
He returned in 1845, with three hundred
sketches in oil and drawings, now in the
National Gallery, Berlin, devoted himself to
teaching in 1849, visited Italy in 1853-54,
and became professor at the Berlin Academy
in 1866. Since his second journey to
Italy in 1877, he has alternately treated
Italian and Tropical subjects. Works: Stubenkammer
on Rügen, Norwegian Landscape,
Bellevue Castle, Berlin; Guachero
Cave in Venezuela, Replica, with Humboldt
and Missionaries, National Gallery, Berlin;
Plateau of Merida, Coast of Laguayra, Lake
Urno, three Tropical Wood Landscapes,
Sierra Nevada, Abrida in the Andes, Valley
of Caracas, Falls of Terni, Castel Gandolfo,
Palace of Queen Joanna, Giant's Grave and
Sacrificial Stone, New Museum, Berlin.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 376; Rosenberg,
Berl. Malersch., 328; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iv.
118.
BELLET DU POISAT, PIERRE ALFRED,
born at Bourgoin, Isère, Oct. 5,
1823, died in Paris in Sept., 1883. History,
landscape, and marine painter, pupil of
Drolling and of Flandrin; entered École
des Beaux Arts in 1845, followed at first the
style of Delacroix, later that of the Venetians,
and has more recently, in landscape
and marine painting, imitated the Dutch.
Works: Marguérite in Church (1857); Entry
of the Hussites into the Council of Basle
(1859); Jews in Captivity (1868); Christ
served by Angels, Christ walking on the
Waters (1875); La Nuit dans le Port (1879);
Mill of Dordrecht, Canal near Scheveningen,
Rural Wedding, Fight of the Centaurs with
the Lapiths (1880); Canal in the Dunes
(1881); Banks of the Meuse, Marine (1882);
Entrance to the Harbour of Marseilles
(1883).—Meyer, Gesch., 288; Larousse.
BELLEVOIS, J., second half of 17th century,
died in Hamburg in 1684 (?). Dutch
school; marine painter; mentioned as settled
in Hamburg about 1673-80. Works:
Calm Sea with Vessels, Madrid Museum;
Slightly Agitated Sea (1659), Dr. A. Bredius,
Amsterdam; Storm on Rocky Coast
(1664), Brunswick Gallery; Similar subject,
Consul Weber, Hamburg.—Meyer, Künst.
Lex., iii. 378; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 410.
BELLINI, GENTILE, born probably at
Padua in 1426-7, died in Venice, Feb. 23,
1507. Venetian school; eldest son and pupil
of Jacopo Bellini, in whose studio he and
his brother Giovanni laboured until Jacopo's
death. Gentile probably settled in
