A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
was never finished. At the death of the queen, in
1714, he fell into difBculties, and fled to France,
where he was much patronized by the court. He
became a member of the Academy in 1717, and
died in Paris in 1727. Horace Walpole gives a
long account of him, and mentions many enamel
portraits and copies of celebrated paintings exe-
cuted by him.
BOITARD, LoDis Pierre, who was born in France, was a pupil of La Farge. He went to Eng- land with his father in the reign of George I., and became celebrated as an engraver of book plates. He married an English lady, and died in London in 1768. His most important work was a repre- sentation of the Ranelagh Rotunda, after Paolo Pannini. Other good plates of his are those he executed for Spence's ' Polymetia.' He also en- graved some portiaits, among which is that of Brown, the soldier who dixtinguished himself at the battle of Dettingen, and one of Elizabeth Canning.
BOIVIN, Rex6, (or Boyvin,) a French draughts- man and line-engriiver, was born at Angers about the year 1530. and died, as is belie^'ed, at Rome in 1598. He engraved several plates in the style of Cornelie Cort, and we have also some etchings by liim. Some of his plates are from his own designs, and some from those of Rosso del Rosso, called by the French Maitre Rous. He sometimes signed his works with his baptismal name, Renatus, and sometimes with a cijiher composed of an R and B, thus,^jy^ . The following are his principal plates:
Twelve Portraits of Philosophers aud aucient Poets. Two Portraits of Clement Marot. Portrait of John Sebastian Psanserns. Portrait of George Vicelius, Theologian. Susannah and the Elders. The departure of Hagar aud Ishmael from the House of Abraham ; a spirited etching. Banditti robbing the Cart of a Peasant ; etching. The Plates for a work entitled " livre de la Conqueste de la Toison d'or, par le Prince Jason de Tessalie." The Triumph of Virtue and the Defeat of Vice ; after Rosso del Rosso. Francis I. advancing towards the Temple of Immor- tality, leaving behind him Ignorance and the Vices ; after the same,
BOIZOT, Marie Louise Adelaide, a French line- engraver, %vas bom in Paris in 1744. She was the daughter of Antoine Boizot, a painter, and sister of Louis Simon Boizot, a sculptor, and was in- structed in art by her father and by J. J. Flipart. She engraved with great neatness several portraits and other subjects, and died about the year 1800. The following are among her works :
Jean Joseph Guillaume Brute, Doctor of Sorbonne ; M. L. A. Boizot del. ctfee. Joseph II., Emperor of Germany ; after L. S. Boizot. Louis XVI., King of France ; after the same. Marie Antoinette, Queen of France ; after the same. Louis Stanislas Xavier, Count of Provence, afterwards Louis XVIII. ; afltr the same. Marie Josephine Louise, Countess of Provence; after the same. Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, afterwards Charles X. ; after the same. Marie Therese, Countess of Artois ; after the same. Madame Elizabeth, sister of Louis XVI. ; after the same. St. Catharine ; after L. Carracci. Tlie Dut<;h Breakfast ; after G. Melsii. A Boy with a Birdcage ; after 2s^etscher. A young Turk ; after the same. La Liseuse ; after Greuze.
BO J AN, J. L., was a French engraver, who flourished about the year 1670. He was chiefly employed by Jean Berain in engraving some of 156 the plates for his large work of the Ornaments in the Louvre and the Tuileries.
BOKLUND, Johan Kristokfer, who was bom in 1817 at Kulla-Gunnarstorp, Sweden, studied under Korner in Lund, and then in Copenhagen, Stock- holm, Munich, and lastly under Couture in Paris. In 1856 he returned to Stockholm, where he became a member of the Academy of which he was after- wards Director, and held various important posts, including the Curatorship of the National Museum. He painted scenes from the Thirty Years' War, historic pictures, genre subjects, and portraits. Many celebrated persons sat to him. He died at Stockholm in 1880.
BOKSHOORN, Joseph, a Dutch portrait painter, was bom at the Hague, and came to London in 1670, where he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a scholar of Sir Peter Lely, whose works he copied in great perfection. He also copied por- traits by Van Dyck, particularly that of the Earl of StrafEord, which was in the possession of the Earl of Rockingham. Vertue mentions portraits by him of Mr. Davenant (son of Sir William) and his wife.
BOL, Cornelis, was a native of Holland, and flourished about the year 1660. He visited England before the fire of London, as he painted views of that conflagration. He also painted representations of Sutton Place in Surrey, Arundel House, Somerset House, and the Tower. He etched some plates representing the seaports of Holland, among which is that of the Briel.
BOL, Ferdinand, was born at Dordrecht in 1611. Of his life we know but little. He went wlien a child with his parents to Amsterdam, his future home ; studied under Rembrandt ; was made a citizen ; married, in 1653, Elisabeth Dell ; and died there in 1681. His mastei-piece, the ' Four Regents of the Leprosy Hospital,' — which formerly hung in that institution at Amsterdam, and is now in the Townhall, — at a certain exhibition held for chari- table purposes is said to have received more notica and praise than any of the works of his master, Rembrandt. Yet Bol was a most uncertain painter ; and although, while under the influence of Rem- brandt, he produced works that may have passed as being the work of the master himself, he latterly degenerated into a bad imitator of Rembrandt, and appears even to have exaggerated the faults of his manner and style without retaining the power of giving the superb eilects of light and shade which, while in that master's studio, he certainly once possessed. This change is apparent in those paintings of Bol that bear a later date than 1660, when he had probably left Rembrandt. The following are his principal paintings: Amsterdam. Museum. Portrait of Ferdinand Bol. „ „ Portrait of Arthur Quelliuus, Sculptor; Boi.. 1663. ,, „ Portrait of Admiral Michiel Adri- ausz de Kuyter ; F. bul fecit. 1677. Amsterdam. „ A Mother with her two Clii'dren ;
F. BOL FECIT. The Instruction ; F. bol. 1663. „ " Portrait of Admiral de Kuyter. „ Town Hall. Four Kegents of the Leprosy Hos- pital {his masterpiece). Berlin. Museum. Portrait of an Old Lady; F. BOL FECrr. 1642 Brussels. Gallery. Portrait of a JI >.n ; F. BOL F. 1600. The F and the B interlucd o< given above. {^Formerly called i Rembrandt.)
