- ment between Constitution and Guerrière;
Engagement between Wasp and Frolic, Harrison Collection, Philadelphia; three Marine Views, Claghorn Collection, Philadelphia.
BIRD, EDWARD, born at Wolverhampton,
England, April 12, 1772, died at Bristol,
Nov. 2, 1819. History and genre painter;
after learning to paint landscapes, fruits, and
flowers on Japan ware became a drawing
master, and in 1807 exhibited some pictures
at Bath which brought him into notice. His
first works were genre subjects, such as The
Blacksmith's Shop, The Young Recruit, and
The Country Auction, but he soon began to
paint religious and historical subjects with
such success that he was appointed painter
to the Princess Charlotte, and became in
1812 an A.R.A., and in 1815 R.A. Still,
his earlier works are the best, his more ambitious
conceptions being beyond his ability
to complete. Works: Raffle for the Watch,
National Gallery; Day after Chevy Chase,
Death of Eli, Stafford House, London;
Queen Philippa supplicating for the Lives of
the Burghers of Calais (1814); Crucifixion
(1817); Death of Sapphira (1818).—Nat.
Gal. Cat.; Cunningham; Art Union, 1843,
92; F. de Conches, 329; Ch. Blanc, École
anglaise; Redgrave; Sandby, i. 352.
BISET, KAREL EMANUEL, born at
Mechlin, baptized Dec. 26, 1633, died at
Breda in 1680. Flemish school; genre and
portrait painter; went early to Paris, where
his pictures, representing festal assemblies,
balls, etc., were much in vogue; returned
to Flanders and entered the service of
Comte de Montérey, Governor of the
Netherlands; settled soon after at Antwerp,
where he was received into the guild
in 1661; became a citizen in 1663, and dean
of the guild, and director of the Academy in
1675. Works: Tell shooting at the Apple
on his Son's Head, Brussels Museum;
Flemish Interior, Rotterdam Museum.—Biogr.
nat. de Belgique, ii. 440; Fétis, Cat.
du Musée Royal, 253.
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BISI, LUIGI, Cavaliere, born in Milan, May 10, 1814. Architecture and landscape painter; pupil of Fr. Durelli at Milan Academy, of which he became professor of perspective, and later, president. Paints chiefly interiors. Works: Interior of Milan Cathedral (1840), Vienna Museum; Orsan-*michele in Florence, National Gallery, Berlin; S. Marco, Milan Cathedral, in Milan Academy; View of Bellagio; Choir in St. Ambrosius, Milan; Interior of S. Michele, ib.; Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Amsterdam Exposition, 1883.—Würzbach, i. 411.
BISPHAM, HENRY COLLINS, born in
Philadelphia, June 9, 1841, died in Rome,
Dec. 22, 1882. Animal painter; pupil in Philadelphia
of Edmund D. Lewis and William
T. Richards, and studied in Paris under Otto
Weber and E. van Marcke. Professional
life passed in Philadelphia, New York, Paris,
and Rome; served in army in 1862, in the
Cumberland Valley, in Pennsylvania, and in
Maryland. Was successful in the delineation
of wild animals and cattle. Works: Cavalry
Raid (1863); Dead in the Desert,
Roman Bull (1867); Roman Wine-Cart
(1868); On the Campagna, To the Front,
Noonday Rest (1869); Hunting Dogs, Four-in-Hand,
Polo (1870); Hunted Down (1871);
The Stampede (1872); Misty Day (1873);
Ross Castle (1874); Study of Figures (1875);
The Lion "Sultan" (1879); Pennsylvania
Academy; Valée du Var (1880); Roman
Oxen Ploughing (1881); Friendly Overtures,
Roman Horses (1882).
BISSCHOP, CHRISTOPH, born at Leeuwarden;
contemporary. Genre painter;
pupil in Paris of Comte and Gleyre. Lives
at The Hague. Works: Rembrandt going
to Lecture on Anatomy (1867); Burgomaster's
Daughter, Cradle-Painter (1872); Curiosity-Shop;
The Victim; Christening Day
in Friesland; Wedding Day; Winter in
Friesland; The Prisoner's Song; The Lord
has given, the Lord has taken away (1880);
