- tique School of Royal Academy. Began by
making designs for book illustrations, of which he published a great number, many of them in colours. He exhibited a few works at the Royal Academy, among them Death of Earl Godwin (1780); Breach in a City the Morning after Battle, War unchained by an Angel (1784); History of Joseph (1785); Last Supper (1799); Jacob's Dream, Christ in Sepulchre guarded by Angels (1808). In the National Gallery is his Spiritual Form of Pitt guiding Behemoth. He also published many works engraved by himself, and poems illustrated by himself.—Gilchrist, Life (London, 1863); Swinburne, Life (London, 1868); Cat. Nat. Gal.; C. Carr, Essays, 35; Rossetti, Memoir in his edition of Blake's Poems; Portfolio (1876), 67.
BLAKELOCK, RALPH ALBERT, born
in New York, in 1847. Self-taught. Studio
in New York. Works: Indian Girl—Uinta
Tribe, T. B. Clarke, New York; Story
of Buffalo Hunt, Shooting the Arrow (1880);
Cloverdale—California, Moonlight, Indian
Fisherman (1882); "Cool wooded shades,
abode of stately deer," Bannock Wigwam
in Peaceful Vale (1883).
BLANC, LOUIS AMMY, born in Berlin,
Aug. 9, 1810, died in Düsseldorf, April 7,
1885. Genre and portrait painter; pupil,
from 1829, of the Berlin Academy, and
from 1833, under Hübner, of the Düsseldorf
Academy; painted at first subjects
from mediæval romance, then portraits in
Hanover in 1840-42, and in Darmstadt in
1846-47; visited England and France in
1857. Works: Praying Woman, The
Church-Goer (1835); Goldsmith's Daughter
(1836); Marguerite in Church (1838); Girls
fishing (1838), National Gallery, Berlin;
Susanna at the Bath, Otto the Shot, Marguerite
at Martha's, Italian Shepherd-Boy,
Girl fallen Asleep, Expectation, Red Riding-Hood.—Meyer,
Conv. Lex., iii. 539; Müller,
54.
BLANC, PAUL JOSEPH, born at Montmartre
(Paris), Jan. 25, 1846. Genre
painter; pupil of Bin and Cabanel. Won
the prix de Rome in 1867. Medals: 1870;
1st class, 1872; 2d class, 1878; L. of Honour,
1878. Works: Thetis taking to Achilles
the Arms forged by Vulcan, Murder
of Laïus by [Oe]dipus (1867); The First Sin
(1869); Perseus (1870), Luxembourg; Removal
of the Palladium (1872); The Invasion
(1873); The Rescue, Clovis's Vow in
the Battle of Tolbia and his Baptism (1876),
sketch of paintings for the Pantheon; Brigand's
Wife (1878), M. Pasteur; Judith and
Holofernes, My Lieutenant (1879); Clovis's
Triumph (1881); The Tiber (1885).
BLANCHARD, ÉDOUARD THÉOPHILE,
born in Paris, April 18, 1844, died
there, Oct. 24, 1879. Genre, history, and portrait
painter; pupil of Picot and of Cabanel;
was third in 1866 for the grand prix de
Rome, second in 1867, and won it in 1868.
Medals: 2d class, 1872; 1st class, 1874.
Works: Panel for a Dining-Room (1867);
Death of Astyanax (1868), painted with
Regnault and Clairin; The Courtesan
(1872); Hylas entrapped by the Nymphs
(1874); Cortegiana (1875); Le Lutrin (1876);
Francesca da Rimini (1880).—Kunst-Chronik,
xv. 107.
BLANCHARD, (HENRI PÉTROS LÉON)
PHARAMOND, born at La Guillotière
(Rhône), Feb. 27, 1805, died in Paris, Dec.
19, 1873. History and landscape painter; pupil
in Paris of Chasselat and Gros; travelled
in Spain (1833), Africa, Mexico (1838), Germany,
France, and Russia (1856), and exhibited
at the Salon almost every year after
1833. Medal, 3d class, 1836; L. of Honour,
1840. Works: Disarmament of Vera Cruz
(1840), Versailles Museum; Balboa discovering
South Sea (1855), bought by State; Valley
of Jehoshaphat; March of Division of
French Army on Mexico (1865), bought by
Ministry of Fine Arts.—Ottley; Vapereau
(1865), 202.
BLANCHARD, JACQUES, born in Paris,
Oct. 1, 1600, died there in 1638. Pupil of
his uncle Jérôme Bolley; went to Lyons in
1620, and spent four years in studying with
