A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
the decorations of houses at Miiirich, Augsburg,
Ingolstadt, Passau, Ratisbon, Landshut, and Salz-
burg. As a wood-engraver he ilhistrated the fol-
lowing :
The Bible with 122 plates. 1563. Livy. 1573. Flavins Josephus. 1565 — 1571. The Book of Auimals, by G. Schaller. 1592. All of these were published by Feyerabeud, at Frank- fort. Besides these, there exist by him several handsome designs for armour.
BOCQUET, Nicolas, a French engraver, men- tioned by Basan, lived about the year 1601. There are two indifEerent prints by him : Adam and Eve ; after Raphael. St. Bruno kneeling before a Crucifix ; after Bon de Boullongne.
BODART, PiETER, a native of Holland, resided at Leyden about the j'ear 1723. His prints are little known in England. His principal work is a drawing-book, entitled " Les Principaux f ondements du Dessein," published at Leyden in 1723. It con- sists of a great number of plates of heads, hands, feet, figures, and groups, from the designs of Gerard Hoet. They are chiefly etched, in an indifferent style.
BODDINGTON, Henry John, was born in 1811. He was one of the sons of Edward Williams, of Barnes, and changed his name because so many of his family were painters. He was a member of the Society of British Artists, and a constant con- tributor to their exhibitions, usually sending views on the Thames, or other river subjects. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy. He died at Barnes in 1865.
BODEKKER, Johannes Frederik, a Dutch portrait painter, was born at Cleve in 1660. He was a scholar of Jan de Baan, and met with great encouragement in his profession at Amsterdam and the Hague. One of his best productions was the half-length portrait of Duke Eberhard Ludwig of Wiirteniberg. There is a poorly-scraped mezzo- tint by this artist of a ' Boy and a Girl,' half- figures, with flowers, after his master, J. de Baan. He died at Amsterdam in 1737.
BODEMER, Jakob, was born in 1777 at Not- tingen, in tlie vicinity of Carlsruhe. He worked at first as an enamel painter in Geneva, but in 1799 entered the Academy of Vienna, and devoted him- self to the profession of enamel portrait paint- ing, and brought that art to perfection by the inventi'on of a glass-hke coating to the pictures. He died at Vienna in 1824. I'he following are specified among his productions :
Mary with the Child Jesus (in possession of Prince Zin- zendorf). Madonna in Prayer; after Holbein (Count Czernin's). Cupid ; after Paolo Veronese. Portraits of the Imperial Family of Austria.
BODENEHR, Moritz, engraver to the court at Dresden, was born at Freiburg in 1665 and died at Dresden in 1749. He engraved a suite of thirty- two mytliological and poetical pieces after Samuel Botsohild, which were published, with his name, in 1693. His father, Johann Georo Bodenehr, was an eminent engraver, who was bom in 1631, and died in 1704 ; and his brothers, Gabriel and Georg Conrad, followed the same profession. Their sons seem to have continued it, for the name of Bodenehr is found to a late period, but with no particular distinction. There was, however, a second Johann Georg Bodenehr, an engraver and worker in mezzotint, who was born at Dresden in 1691, and died at Augsburg in 1730.
BODERECHT, Markds, a German engraver in mezzotint, flourished about the year 1739. He was chiefly employed in portraits, and among others engraved that of Johann Thomas Rauner, with the above date.
BODINIER, GniLLADME, a French historical and portrait painter, was born at Angers in 1795. He studied at Rome under the direction of Pieire Guirin, and exhibited at the Salon from 1827 to 1857. After a long residence in Rome he returned to his native city, where he became director of the Museum, and died in 1872. His best work is the ' Angelus in the Campagna of Rome,' painted in 1836, and formerly in the collection of the Duke of Orleans.
BODMER, Gottlieb, bom at Munich ui 1804, was a painter, designer, and lithographer. He first painted portraits under Stieler. In 1829 he drew upon the stone the celebrated Madonna di San Sisto, after the engraving of F. MUller, and after- wards two paintings after H. Hess, viz., ' Christmas Eve,' and a small altar-piece. He visited Paris, and died at Munich in 1837. The following are notable works :
The Departure of King Otto. King Ludwig I. in his family circle. The Kuight and his Love ; after Foltz, _The Swiss Grenadier ; after Kirner.
BOECE. See Boetids.
BOEGLER, Karl, who was born at Munich in 1837, practised there and at Wiesbaden as a painter of architecture and views. He died in his native city in 1866. In the New Pinakothek at Munich there are three views of buildings, dated 1865, by him.
BOEHMER, Karl Wilhelm, was a painter and engraver of Sa'xony. He was brother-in-law and scholar of Dietrich. There is a series of land- scapes and marine subjects engraved by him, with the dates 1744 and 1754, published in 8vo and ]2mo, with his name or monogram. The series is rare.
BOEKEL, — VAN, a pupil of Frans Snyders, painted living and dead animals. He died in Paris in 1673. In the Louvre there is a picture by him of a man with dogs and game.
BOEKHORST, Jan van, (or Bockhorst,) who was bom at Deutekom in 1661, was a scholar of Kneller. He passed some time with that artist in London, and painted portraits in his manner. He also painted battle-pieces and some historical com- positions, which are rare. He returned to his own country, where he died in 1724, at Cleve. In the castle at Stockholm there are the Four Evangel- ists, and an Angel, by him ; and in the Belvedere at Vienm a 'Nymph surprised by Satyrs.'
BOECKLIN, Arnold, the Swiss idealist painter, was born in 1827 at Basle. At the age of eighteen he was sent to Diisseldorf, where he studied land- scape painting under Schirmer. He then spent six months at Brussels, copying the Dutch master- pieces there, and after a few weeks in Calame's studio at Geneva, he went to Paris, where he was an eye-witness of the revolution of 1848. His mili- tary duties recalled him to Basle, and in 1850 he took up his residence in Rome, where he lived for the next seven years. He married in 1853. The scenery of the Campagna made a lasting impressiun on him, and much of his time was spent wandering
about the country and observing Nature in all her
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