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Cyrene, Interior of a Harem (1875); Moorish Interior, Donkey Boy of Cairo, Chapel in Brittany—Noon, Nubian Story-Teller (1876); Funeral of a Mummy (1877), J. G. Bennett, New York; Market Scene in Nubia, Kybelian Woman (1878); Almeh, R. G. Dun, N. Y.; Waiting for Orders—Souvenir of Constantine, Algeria (1881); Interior of Biskra House—Algeria, R. H. Keene, New York; Eastern Lady (1882), La Cigale, Afternoon Hours, At the Window—Cairo (1883); Caid's Escort at Rest (1884), Thos. B. Clarke, New York; Family Bath at Cairo, My Last Price (1884); Summer on the Bosporus (1885).—Sheldon, 150.

BRIELMAN, JACQUES ALFRED, born in Paris; contemporary. Landscape painter; pupil of Lavieille. Medal, 3d class, 1882. Works: Old Trees of Drevant (1881); Evening in the Cévennes (1882); Oaks in Forest of Troncuis, Château de la Mothe at Marçais (1883), Th. Regnault; Falling Rain (1884); Le Champ-Rouge at Meaulne (1885).

BRIGGS, HENRY PERRONET, born at Walworth in 1792, died in London, Jan. 18, 1844. Began his art studies in 1811 at the Royal Academy, where he exhibited a portrait in 1814; was for nearly twenty years an exhibitor of historical works, but during the latter part of his life his pictures were chiefly portraits. He became an A.R.A. in 1825, and R.A. in 1832. His First Conference between the Spaniards and the Peruvians in 1531, and his Juliet and the Nurse, are in the National Gallery, London.—Redgrave; F. de Conches, 417; Art Union, March, 1844; Sandby, ii. 146.

BRIL (Brill), MATTHEUS, born in Antwerp in 1550, died in Rome in 1584. Flemish school. Went when young to Rome, and was employed by Gregory XIII. to execute works in the Vatican, chiefly landscapes in oil and in fresco. Works: Stag Hunt (2), Louvre; Tobias and his Wife, Boar Hunt, Dresden Gallery; Italian Landscape, Brunswick Museum; Landscape with Shepherds, Ambras Collection, Vienna; Hunting Scene, Naples Museum.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, iii. 55; Fétis, Les Artistes belges à l'étranger, i. 143.

BRIL, PAUWEL, born in Antwerp in 1554, died in Rome, Oct. 7, 1626. Flemish school; brother of Mattheus Bril, whose success in Rome attracted him thither, and whom he succeeded in the Vatican. Pupil of Damien Oortelman, then in Rome of his brother; painted principally landscapes, but also executed figures well. He left many works in oil and fresco, and exercised great influence upon Rubens, Annibale Carracci, and Claude Lorrain, becoming thereby most important for the development of landscape art. Works: Landscapes with Figures (4), Madrid Museum; Duck Hunt, Diana and Nymphs, Fishermen (1624), Pan and Syrinx, St. Jerome in Prayer (1609), three other Landscapes (1617, 1620), Louvre, Paris; Prodigal Son, Antwerp Museum; Ruins with Figures, National Museum, Amsterdam; Landscapes with Roman Ruins (2), Brunswick Museum; Hilly Landscape with Castle, Darmstadt Museum; Christ healing the Possessed (1601), Landscape by Seashore, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Landscapes (9, four dated 1600, 1608, 1624, 1626), Dresden Gallery; do. (4), Berlin Museum; do. (2), Hermitage, St. Petersburg;