and assisting Horace Le Blanc; then spent two years at Rome, and some time at Venice, where by study of the old masters he so much improved as a colourist that on his return home he was called the French Titian. He painted now destroyed works in the Hôtel Perault and Hôtel Bullion, Paris, and in Turin the loves of Venus and Adonis for the Duke of Savoy. Works: Holy Family, The Virgin and St. Anne, Charity, St. Paul, Louvre.—Ch. Blanc, École française.
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BLANCHET, THOMAS, born in Paris, in 1617, died in Lyons, in 1689. French school; studied in Italy under Albani, Andrea Sacchi, and Poussin. After his return painted a St. Paul for Notre Dame (1663), and then settled in Lyons, where he decorated the Hôtel de Ville, and founded an Academy (1681), from which proceeded many able artists. Nearly all his works were destroyed in 1793.—Ch. Blanc, École française; Gaz. des B. Arts (1874), x. 278.
BLANCKARTS, MORITZ, born in Düsseldorf,
April 16, 1839, died in Stuttgart,
April 12, 1883. Battle painter; pupil of
Pläschke and of Vautier, then at Düsseldorf
Academy under Christian Köhler, in 1857 of
Leutze, and in 1858-59 of Hünten; and
completed his studies by travels through
Germany and Belgium. Works: Death of
Körner (1859); Death of Major Schill (1860);
York at Möckern (1863); King William at
Königgrätz (1867); Death of Col. Auerswald
(1872); Bazaine at Mars la Tour (1873); Death
of Col. Count Finkenstein (1874); Prince
Leopold of Coburg at Kulm (1875); Departure;
Hussars at the Inn; Crown Prince of
Prussia greeting the Bavarians after the Victory
of Wörth.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1876), ii.
117; Müller, 55; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 466.
BLASHFIELD, EDWIN HOWLAND,
born in New York, Dec. 25, 1848. Subject
painter; pupil of Bonnat in Paris. Visited
Europe in 1867, remaining abroad eleven
years. Member of Society of American Artists.
Elected an A.N.A. in 1882. Studio
in New York. Works: Emperor Commodus
leaving the Amphitheatre at the head of
the Gladiators (1878); Roman Woman (1879);
The Besieged (1880); Souvenir of Mentone;
Toreador (1881); Music, Suspense, Autumn
(1882); Allegretto, Andante, Minute Men
(1883); Decorative Panels, Morning, etc.
(1884), H. McK. Twombly, New York.
BLAU, TINA, born in Vienna, Nov. 15,
1847. Landscape painter; pupil in Vienna
of August Schäffer, and in Munich of Linden-*schmit.
Has travelled in Bohemia, Hungary,
Holland, and repeatedly visited Italy.
Works: Regulation of the Danube near Vienna;
Autumn in the Prater; Canal near
Amsterdam; Autumn Day in Holland; Arch
of Titus in Rome; Street in Venice; View
near Szolnok; Bavarian Landscape; Outside
the City; Rain and Sunshine; Field-Flowers,
April-Day, Spring in the Prater (1883).—Müller,
55.
BLAUVELT, CHARLES F., born in New
York, in 1824. Genre painter; pupil of the
National Academy, and of Charles L. Elliot.
Professional life passed in New York and
Philadelphia. Elected N.A. in 1859, member
of Pennsylvania Academy in 1864, made
assistant professor of drawing at the United
States Naval Academy, Annapolis, in 1878.
Works: Warming Up; Lost Child; Night
Signal; Waiting for the Train; Inquiring
the Way; Preparing for School; Snowed In;
Burned Out; Entrance to Old Fort Severn—Annapolis
(1880).
BLECHEN, KARL EDUARD, born at
Kottbus, July 29, 1798, died in Berlin, July
23, 1840. Landscape painter; studied at
the Berlin Academy. In 1827 went to Italy
and thenceforth painted chiefly Italian landscapes.
From 1830 he taught at the Berlin
Academy, of which he was made member
and professor in 1835. Works: Camp near
