A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
He painted dead game, fruit, and flowers. His
works are deservedly esteemed. He died at
Amsterdam in 1821.
BRANDT, R., a German engraver, flourished about the year 1660. His name is affixed to a middling-sized upright plate, from his own design, representing 'The Virgin and Infant Christ, with St. Joseph and an Angel.' It is etched in a style resembling that of Benedetto Castiglione, but the drawing is incorrect.
BRANSTON, Allen Robert, the son of a copper-plate engraver, was born at Lynn in 1778. When he was of age he went to London, and took lessons in wood-engraving, in which he quickly rivalled the best artists of the day. He illustrated Bloomfield's ' Wild Flowers,' published in 1806, a ' History of England,' published by Scholey, and other works. His best engraving is ' The Cave of Despair ' in Savage's ' Hints on Decorative Print- ing.' He died in London in 1827.
BRANWHITE, Charles, who was bom in 1818, was a native of Bristol, and a pupil of his father, a miniature painter. He formed a friendship with William Muller, with whom he studied, and by whose style he was much influenced. He fre- quently exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water-Colours, of which — at his death, which occurred in 1880 — he had been a member for some years. His works are chiefly landscapes. The Environs of an Ancient Garden. 1 Received prizes 1852. Vfi'om Glasgow A Frozen Ferry. 1853. J Art Union. Ferry on the Thames {London Univ. Exh. 1862).
BRASCASSAT, Jacques Raymond, was born at Bordeaux in 1805. He studied under Richard and Hersent. The Duchess de Berry presented him with £1000, to enable him to pass five years in Italy. In 1830 he turned his attention to animal painting, following the style of Paul Potter. He gained in 1828 a second class medal, and a first class in 1831 ; he was also made a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur in 1837, and became a member of the Institute in 1846. He died in Paris in 1867. The Louvre possesses a ' Bull ' by him, signed and dated 1842, and a ' Landscape with Animals ' of the year 1845; and three Landscapes are in the Bordeaux Museum.
BRASCH, M., was a genre painter who lived in the first half of the 18th century. He was at one time a pupil of Peter Horemans in Munich, but lived subsequently at Augsburg. He painted hunting scenes and conversation pictures ; the latter in the manner of Horemans.
BRASSAUW, Melchior, a native of Antwerp, flourished in the eighteenth century. A picture of ' "The Prodigal Son,' in the Amsterdam Gallery, bears his signature.
BRASSEUR, Antoine, painter, was born at Lille in 1819, and brought up at the Conitesse Foundling Hospital. He gained a wide reputation as a restorer of pictures, following his calling at Cologne. On his death, in 1886, he left his large collection of pictures to the museum of his native town.
BRAUN, Adam John, was born at Vienna in 1750, and was from 1789 a member of the Academy of Arts of his native city. He painted genre pic- tures in the style of Gerard Dou and Mieris ; as well as portraits, among others that of a ' Lady at the Work-table,' (signed and dated 1785,) which is in the Belvedere at Vienna. He was also a 190 clever restorer of paintings. He died at Vienna in 1827.
BRAUN, AnonsTiN, (or Brun,) was a painter and engraver who was born at Cologne about 1570, and died later than 1627. Of his works there are mentioned :
PAINTINGS.
Cologne, Wallraf Museum, The Martyrdom of St. Febrnnia; Church of S. Georc/e, Sevtn Pictures from the Passion ; St. Mary in Capitol, Seven Pictures from the Life of St. Martin. Dresiien, Gallery, Scenes from the Life of the Virgin — and of Christ.
ENGRAVINGS.
37 Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Mary ; after Alhrecht DUrer and others. St. Peter in a Ship with the Keys, 1596. A Memorial in form of an Altar, 1595.
BRAUN, Barth^lemy, a French historical paint- er, was a native of Lorraine. He was working at Nancy in 1683, and became painter in ordinary to the Duke of Lorraine.
BRAUN, Casper, who was born in 1807 at Aschaifenburg, first studied painting in the Munich Academy, and then turned his attention to wood- engraving, in which he received instruction from Brevieres in Paris and Dessauer in Munich: and in this branch of art he was very successful. He died in 1877.
BRAUNGART, J., a painter of landscapes and architecture, was bom at Rottenacker, in Upper Swabia, in 1803, and died in 1849 at Esslingen. He has left some elegant productions, including views of the Frauenkirche at Esslingen and land- scapes in the Tyrol.
BRAUWER. See BRonwER.
BRAUWERE, De. See Db Bbaowere, also Brouwer.
BRAY. See De Beat.
BREA, LoDOVico, a native of Nice, flourished about 1500. There are some of his works still to be seen in the churches in Genoa and the neigh- bourhood, which have remained nearly as fresh as when they were first painted. In Sant' Agostino is one of his best works, representing ' The Murder of the Innocents,' and a ' Coronation of the Vir- gin ' (1513) is in Santa Maria di Castello. His pictures are generally signed with his name, and are dated from 1483 to 1613. According to Soprani, his works are well composed for the time, and his figures tolerably drawn and gracefully turned.
BREBES, J. B., was a French engraver, who executed in a neat style some plates after the designs of Ant. Desgodetz for the work entitled ' Les Edifices de Rome,' which was published in 1682. He also engraved some plates after Sebas- tien Bourdon, and other painters, but they are very indiiferent.
BREBIETTE, Pierre, a French painter and engraver, was born at Mantes in 1596. He studied under Lallemand, in his youth travelled in Italy, became painter to the king in 16.^7, and died in Paris between the years 1638 and 1650. He is said to have been a painter of some celebrity, but his works in painting are now unknown. Among other works he engraved several plates from his own designs, which are composed in a very agree- able style, and etched in a spirited and masterly manner. He marked his prints with the letters PB enclosed within a heart thus ^^ The following are his principal works :
