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