painter; pupil of National Academy and of J. H. Wright, later studied in Paris and Venice. Has lived and painted in New York, Paris, Venice, and Rome; and sketched in Egypt and Syria. Elected an A. N. A. in 1862. Studio in Florence since 1871; in Rome in 1883. Works: Cloud Towers, Strayed Maskers, (1873); Interior of St. Mark's—Venice; Reverential Anatomist (1876), St. Luke's Hospital, New York; Bazaar at Cairo, Hay Boats, Peasants of Cadore at Religious Worship, Market-Place—Egypt (1877); Study of Girl in Blue, Suydam Collection, National Academy; Hashish Smokers—Jerusalem, Slave's Tower (1878); Thoughts in Exile, Mrs. M. O. Roberts, New York; Reverie; Making the Best of It, Artists' Fund Society; Dead Calm on the Hill; Fire-Worshippers (1879); Mountain Torrent (1881); Distinguished Company in Titian's Garden, State Secret in Venice (1882); Spring, Art and Love, Afternoon on the Lagoon, Ariadne (1883).
BENT, JOHANNES VAN DER, born
in Amsterdam about 1650 (?), died in 1690.
Dutch school; landscape painter; pupil of
Philips Wouwerman and of Adriaan van
de Velde, but appears rather as a follower
of Berchem. Works: Italian Landscape
with Shepherds, Rotterdam Museum; Landscape
with Span of Oxen, Stockholm Museum;
two Landscapes with Figures and
Cattle, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. By P.
Bent, otherwise unknown, an Annunciation
to the Shepherds, in the Brunswick
Gallery.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 556; Riegel,
Beiträge, ii. 283.
BENTELE, FIDELIS, born at Tettnang,
Würtemberg, April 8, 1830. History painter;
pupil of Munich Academy, and, under
Bernhard Neher, of Stuttgart Art-school, then
studied in Italy, 1856-59. Since 1865 professor
of drawing at the school of architecture
in Stuttgart. Works: The Good Samaritan,
Allegory on Poetry and Music, Stuttgart
Gallery; others in churches at Stuttgart,
Cannstatt, Ravensburg, Tettnang, etc.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 557.
BENTELE, MAX, born at Lindenberg,
Bavaria, July 20, 1825. History painter;
pupil of Munich Academy, under Zimmermann,
Schlotthauer and H. von Hess, then
under Schnorr and Schwind; in 1850-52
painted under Schraudolph seven frescos
in the cathedral at Speyer, and in 1861-63
under Steinle in the staircase of the Cologne
Museum. Works: Ascension (1864);
Twelve Apostles (1865); Coronation of the
Virgin (1868-69); Peter tending the Flock,
Delivery of the Keys, and three other pictures
(1872-73); Ascension (1874); Altarpiece
(1878); two Ceiling-Paintings (1881);
Glorification of Christ (1882).—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 557.
BENTIVOGLIO, GUIDO, Cardinal, portrait,
Anton Van Dyck, Palazzo Pitti, Florence;
canvas, H. 6 ft. × 4 ft. 3 in.; signed,
dated 1623. Full length, in cardinal's robes,
seated in an arm-chair before a table, holding
a paper with both hands. One of the painter's
masterpieces. Carried to Paris; restored
in 1816. Engraved by Piccianti; Meyssens;
and in bust by J. Morin; Masquelier
fils. Etched by Gaujean (1882).—Smith,
iii. 46; Guiffrey, 54; Filhol, iv. Pl. 245.
BENVENUTI, GIO. BATTISTA See
Ortolano.
BENVENUTI, PIETRO, born at Arezzo,
Jan. 8, 1769, died in Florence, Feb. 3, 1844.
History painter; studied in Florence after
Andrea del Sarto and in Rome after Raphael;
adhered in his early works to manner of
David, but developed an independent style,
and, with Camuccini, was looked upon as one
of the first of modern Italian painters. Lived,
after 1805, in Florence, where he became
director of the Academy. Works: Judith
with Head of Holofernes, Arezzo Cathedral;
Ugolino (1822); Death of Priam, Oath of
the Saxons after the Battle of Jena, Delphic
Sibyl, Death of St. Chrysogonus, Ravenna
Cathedral. Works in fresco: Myth of Hercules,
Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Scenes from
Old and New Testament, Chapel of S. Lorenzo,
Florence.—Meyer, Con. Lex., iii.
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