- bigny. Medals: 3d class, 1875; 2d class, 1877.
Works: Dessert, Lobster (1875); Prawns, Preparations for Dessert (1877); Flies' Feast, War—Art—Religion (1880); Lucky Day, Present from Pomona (1881); The Tide (1882); For the Fête-Days, Salt and Fresh Water Crustaceans (1883); Thrushes, Raisins (1884).
BERGERET, PIERRE NOLASQUE,
born in Bordeaux, Feb. 2, 1782, died in
Paris, Feb. 21, 1863. History, genre, and
portrait painter; pupil of Lacour, the elder
(1745-1814), of Vincent and of David; exhibited
first in the Salon of 1806, when he
won the grand prix. Medal: 1st class,
1808. Works: Raphael's Obsequies (1806);
Francis I. and Henry VIII. on the Field of
the Cloth of Gold (1808); Charles V. picking
up Titian's Brush (1808), Portrait of
Louis Philippe, Museum, Bordeaux; Christ
Crowned with Thorns, Cathedral, ib.; St.
Louis in Prayer, Notre Dame, ib.; Czar
Alexander presenting to Napoleon the Calmucks,
Cossacks, and Bashkirs of the Russian
Army (1810), Versailles Gallery; Henry
IV. on his Bier, Meeting at Tilsit of Alexander
and Napoleon (1810); Anne Boleyn
listening to her Sentence (1814); Francis
I. writing Verses inspired by Agnes Sorel
(1817), Rembrandt in his Studio (1836),
Fontainebleau; Homer Reciting, Michelangelo,
grown blind, touching an Antique
Torso (1817); St. Louis at Damietta,
Lippo Lippi delivered from Captivity,
Poussin's Obsequies (1819); Court of Marguerite
of Navarre, Charles V. in Prison,
Tintoretto and Aretino (1822); Shipwreck
of Charles V. (1824); Claude Lorrain and
Innocent X. (1831); Death of Titian (1833);
Excavation of the Laocoön, Soliman II. buying
Roxelana, Henry II. and Diana of Poitiers
(1835); Education of Jupiter, Republic Triumphant
(1849); Charity, Death of Columbus
(1851).—Larousse, ii. 582; Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 606.
BERGH, JOHAN EDVARD, born in
Stockholm, March 29, 1828, died there,
Sept. 23, 1880. Landscape painter; pupil
of the Stockholm Academy; won first prize
in 1853, and studied then in Düsseldorf
under Gude and in Geneva under Calame.
Travelled in 1856-57 in Italy; became,
after his return, member of, and in 1861
professor in, the Stockholm Academy. Medals
in Stockholm (1866) and Paris (1867).
Works: Wood-Interior, Stockholm Museum;
Beech-Wood, Magnus, Gothenburg;
Veblungsnäs in Romsdal, Astrup, Stockholm;
View of Stockholm, Prince of Wales;
View in Dalecarlia, Becker, Amsterdam.—Brockhaus,
ii. 819.
BERGHE, AUGUSTINUS VAN DEN,
born at Bruges in 1756, died at Beauvais,
France, in 1836. History, landscape, and
portrait painter; pupil in Bruges Academy
of J. A. Geremyn, then from 1780 in Paris
Academy of Suvée; won prize in 1782, returned
to Flanders in 1791, won prize in
Ghent Academy in 1796, and became professor
at the École centrale at Beauvais.
Works: Coriolanus with his Family (1786);
Œdipus at Colonus; Death of Adonis; St.
Anthony of Padua in Ecstasy, Notre Dame,
Bruges; Œdipus cursing his Son Polynices
(1796), Ghent Museum.—Immerzeel, i. 46.
BERGHE, CHARLES AUGUSTE VAN
DEN, born at Beauvais (Oise), in 1798,
died in Paris, Dec. 17 (Nov. 19?), 1853.
History and portrait painter; son of preceding,
pupil of Girodet and Gros. Medal,
2d class, 1833; L. of Honour, 1839.
Works: Quentin Durward and Louis XI.,
Portrait of Bertini (1833); Descent from
the Cross, Temptation of St. Anthony,
Magdalen Penitent (1836); Alice and Cora;
portraits of Generals Vaubois and Gréard, of
the composer Koutski, and others.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 612.
BERGHEM. See Berchem.
BERGLER, JOSEF, born in Salzburg,
May 1, 1753, died in Prague, June 25, 1829.
History painter; pupil of his father, the
sculptor J. B., the elder (1708-88), in Passau,
then from 1776-79 of Martin Knoller
in Milan, and in 1786 of Maron in Rome.
After winning the great prize of the Acad-
