- tion, Vienna; Adoration of the Magi, Hospital
church, Coblentz.—Kunst-Chronik, x. 388; W. & W., ii. 452.
BREUGHEL. See Brueghel.
BREVOORT, JAMES RENWICK, born
in Westchester County, N. Y., July 20,
1832. Landscape painter; pupil of Thomas
Cummings. Visited Europe in 1873, spending
seven years abroad, chiefly in Florence;
has sketched at different times in Switzerland,
Holland, England, the Abruzzi mountains,
and about the Italian lakes. Elected
an A.N.A. in 1861, and N.A. in 1863; professor
of perspective at National Academy,
1872. Studio in New York. Works: Scene
in Holland—near Arnheim, Lake of Como—near
Varenna (1878); Storm on English
Moor (1882); May Morning—Lake of Como
(1883); New England Scene, Morning in
Early Winter (1884).
BREYDEL, KAREL, called the Chevalier,
born in Antwerp in 1677, died in
Ghent, Nov. 4, 1744. Flemish school;
painter of scenes from military life, in imitation
of Van der Meulen, and views of the
Rhine in the manner of Jan Griffier; pupil
of Peeter Ykens, but really formed himself
in Holland and Germany. He led a very
erratic life, leaving his wife in Antwerp
vainly expecting his return. Works: Combat
of Horsemen, Aremberg Gallery, Brussels;
Two Cavalry Skirmishes, Brussels
Museum; Landscape (2), Cassel Gallery.
His brother, Frans (1679-1750), was court
painter at Cassel, and lived for some time
in London.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, iii. 37;
Michiels, x. 518.
BRICHER, ALFRED THOMPSON,
born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
April 10, 1839. Landscape and marine
painter; self-taught. Began to paint in
1858; sent first picture to National Academy
in 1868. Elected A.N.A. in 1879.
Studio in New York. Works in oil: Mill
Stream at Newburyport (1868); Ironbound
Island—Coast of Maine; Baby is King, Day
Dreams, Last of Flying Cloud (1880); Engagement
Ring, Castle Rock—Marblehead
(1881); At Curzon's Mills—Newburyport
(1882); In my Neighbour's Garden (1883).
Works in water-colour: Indian Summer's
Sunset (1869); Maiden's Rock—Lake Pepin
(1870); Mt. Adams (1871); On the Winding
Esopus, Time and Tide (1874); Spring
Morning (1875); Foggy Morning—Grand
Menan (1876); St. Michael's Mount (1877);
In a Tide Harbour (1878).—Art Journal
(1877), 174; Sheldon, 144.
BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR, John
Everett Millais, Wm. H. Vanderbilt, New
York. Lucy Ashton, recovered from her
swoon, but not yet from her bewilderment
and terror, clings helplessly, yet trustingly,
to the arm of the Master of Ravenswood,
whose dark and piercing glance indicates
the approach of Sir William Ashton, who is
not seen; background a rocky recess, relieved
by the sparkle of a tiny burn and by a
growth of ferns and wild-flowers. Painted in
1878. Engraved by J. O. Barlow.—Builder
(1878), 449; Art Journal (1878), 143.
BRIDGES, FIDELIA, born in Salem,
Mass.; contemporary. Landscape and flower
painter; pupil of W. T. Richards, in
Philadelphia; also studied a year abroad.
Elected an A.N.A. in 1874. Works in oil:
Wild Flowers in Wheat (1869); Views on
the Ausable (1870); Thistles and Yellow-Birds
(1873); Salt Marshes (1874); Edge of
Rye Field (1875); Old Grave (1876); Robin's
Bath (1877); Daisies; Banks of an English
Stream, Old Boat's Last Mooring (1881).
Water-colours: Pickerel Weed (1871); Lily
Pond (1874); Mouth of River (1875); By
the Sea, Flock of Snow Birds, Kingfisher
and Catkins (1876); Kingbird on the Look-*out
(1878).
BRIDGMAN, FREDERICK ARTHUR,
born at Tuskegee, Ala., in 1847. Genre painter;
pupil of Brooklyn Art Association, and
in 1866 of L. Gérôme, in Paris. In 1870-72
he sketched in the Pyrenees, and in 1873-4
in Algiers, Egypt, and Nubia. Medals:
Paris, 3d class, 1877; 2d class and L. of
Honour, 1878. Elected N.A. in 1881. Studio
in Paris. Works: Apollo bearing off
