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Spain, and North Africa. Professor at Brussels Academy. Member of Rotterdam and Philadelphia Academies. Officer of Order of Leopold; Portuguese Order of Isabella the Catholic. Works: Seville Cathedral (1855), St. Amand Abbey at Rouen, Brussels Museum; Ruins of Moorish Bridge, Liège Museum; Gate of Justice at the Alhambra, Mons Museum; Market Halls at Ypres, Ypres Museum; Lions' Court of the Alhambra, Court of Honour of the Alcazar at Seville, Stuttgart Gallery; Andalusian Landscape (1847), Giralda Procession at Seville (1853), National Gallery, Berlin; Roman Aqueduct at Seville, Philadelphia Museum.—Larousse, ii. 1027.



BOTH, JAN, called the Italian, born at Utrecht, in 1610, died there after 1650. Dutch school. Jan and his brother Andries having learned the elements of painting from their father, Dirck, glass painter, were apprenticed by him to Abraham Bloemart. The brothers travelled in France and Italy. At Rome, Jan imitated the style of Claude Lorrain and painted some excellent landscapes, in which Andries, who followed the manner of Van Laar, introduced figures and animals. It is said that Jan, after his brother was drowned at Venice, returned to Utrecht and died of grief soon after. But doubt is thrown upon this story by the signature of Jan, when dean of the guild in 1649; he had returned to Utrecht in 1644. Works: Eight landscapes, Madrid Museum; two, Louvre; do., Hague Museum; four, National Museum, Amsterdam; two, Rotterdam Museum; one, Antwerp Museum; do., Brussels Museum; do., Brunswick Museum; five, Dresden Museum; one (1650), Berlin Museum; do., Munich Gallery; two, Copenhagen Gallery; Baptism of the Eunuch, Buckingham Palace, London; Landscape with Muleteers; do. with figures (by Poelenburg) representing Judgment of Paris, and others, National Gallery, London; Landscape, New York Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 62; Havard, A. & A., iv. 171; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 366.



BOTTALLA, GIOVANNI MARIA, called Raffaellino, born at Savona, in 1613, died in Milan, in 1644. Genoese school; patronized by Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti, who placed him at Rome in the studio of Pietro da Cortona. Sacchetti called him Raffaellino from his happy imitation of Raphael; but his style is rather that of Pietro, who is said to have dismissed him and Francesco Romanelli, for endeavouring to supplant him. Afterwards painted in Naples and in Genoa. His Meeting of Jacob and Esau is in the Capitol Gallery, Rome.—Lanzi, iii. 276; Ch. Blanc, École génoise; Soprani, 161.


BÖTTCHER, CHRISTIAN (EDUARD), born at Imgenbroich, Rhine province, Dec. 9, 1818. Genre and landscape painter; pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Hildebrandt and Schadow. Since 1872 professor in Academy. Works: Release of Prisoner (1848); Schoolmaster and Village Youths (1852); Rhenish Village Youths (1856); Evening on the Rhine (1860); Rhenish Harvest (1861); Summer-Night on the Rhine (1872), Cologne Museum; Evening in Black Forest (1863), Leipsic Museum; Starting for the Vintage (1867); Hay-Harvest on the Lahn, Villa on the Rhine, Market-Well in Rhenish City (1870); Return from the Fields (1872); Sunday on the Rhine (1875).—Wolfg. Müller, 69; Düsseldorf K., 257; Wiegmann, 326.


BOTTICELLI, ALESSANDRO (Sandro), born in Florence, in 1446, died there,