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BRÉTON, JULES ADOLPHE, born at
Courrières (Pas-de-Calais), May 1, 1827.
Genre painter; pupil
of Drölling and
Dévigne, whose
daughter he married;
one of the
best French painters
of village and
country life. Medals:
3d class, 1855;
2d class, 1857; 1st
class, 1859, 1861,
1867; medal of honour, 1872; L. of Honour,
1861; Officer, 1867. Works: Misery and
Despair (1849); Harvesters' Return (1853);
The Gleaners, I. Pereire; The Day after St.
Sebastian, Little Peasant Girls telling Fortunes
(1855); Planting a Cemetery, Lille
Museum; Blessing the Harvest (1857), Recall
of the Gleaners (1859), Evening (1861),
The Gleaner (1877), Luxembourg Museum;
The Fire, Weed Gatherers (1861), Comte
Duchatel; Consecration of the Church of
Oignies, M. de Clerq; Haymaker, Returning
from Fields (1863); Vintage at Château
Lagrange, Comte Duchatel; Reading, Turkey
Keeper (1864); End of the Day, Blue
Monday, Recall of the Gleaners (1865);
Spring of Water near the Sea, Harvest-Time
(1867); Women gathering Potatoes, Heliotrope
(1868); Plenary Indulgence in Brittany,
Bad Grass (1869); Breton Washerwomen,
Woman Spinning (1870); Girl
tending Cows, The Fountain (1872); The
Cliff, When the Cat's away the Mice will
play (1874); St. John (1875); Village Girl
(1879); Evening (1880); Artois Woman
(1881); Evening at Finistère (1882); The
Rainbow, Morning (1883); Communicants
(1884); Last Ray, Song of the Lark (1885).
Works in the United States: Peasant Girl
Knitting, Grand Pardon in Brittany, Miss
C. L. Wolfe, New York; Gleaner, Samuel
Hawk Collection, New York; Harvest, W.
Rockefeller, New York; Lookout, R. C.
Taft, Providence; Fleur de Sable, J. Carey
Coale, Baltimore; Gleaners, H. Probasco,
Cincinnati; Tired Gleaner, Hurlbut Collection,
Cleveland; Sea Bird, D. Catlin, St.
Louis; Burning Brushwood, Little Gleaner's
Rest, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia;
Departure for the Fields, G. Whitney,
Philadelphia; Evening, A. Spencer, New
York; Breton Washerwomen at the Seashore,
E. D. Morgan Collection, New York;
Gathering Water-Lilies, Peasant Woman,
J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Tired Gleaner, C.
S. Smith, New York; Overdrawn Score, J.
Hoey, New York; Close of the Day, Sunny
Day, Repose, W. T. Walters, Baltimore;
Potato Harvest, H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia;
Brittany Woman, Rainbow, W. H. Vanderbilt,
New York; Reaper's Rest, Wm. Astor,
New York.—Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 642;
Portfolio (1875), 2.
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BRETT, JOHN, born in England; contemporary. Landscape and marine painter; studio at Putney. Elected an A.R.A. in 1881. Works: Spires of Channel Islands (1875); Sir Thomas's Tower (1876); Cornish Lions (1877); Carnarvon Bay (1878); Stronghold of the Seison (1879); Britannia's Realm, Sandy Shallows of Seashore (1880); St. Ives Bay, Golden Prospects—St. Catherine's Well (1881); Falling Barometer, Grey of the Morning (1882); Yellow Sands, Welsh Dragons (1883); Norman Archipelago (1885).—Art Journal (1882), 57.
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BREU (Brew, Prew), JÖRG (Georg), died
in Augsburg, 1536. German school; probably
pupil of Hans Burgkmair, whose
style his pictures recall, as well as that of
Altdorfer. The anatomical
treatment of his figures
is defective, but his landscape
backgrounds are remarkable.
Works: Madonna,
Berlin Museum
(1512); Battle of Zama, Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Madonna (1523), Ambras Collec-
