pupil of Bonnat. Medal, 3d class, 1885. Works: In the Country (1881); La Greve des Forgerons (1882); Churchwarden's Pew (1883); Baptismal Feast, Portrait of Cormon (1884); Burial of a Farmer in Picardy (1885).
BRISSET, PIERRE NICOLAS, born in
Paris, Aug. 18, 1810. History and genre
painter; pupil of Picot, and of the École
des Beaux Arts. Won the grand prix de
Rome in 1840. Medals, 2d class, 1847, 1855;
L. of Honour, 1868. Works: Death of Priam
(1840); St. Laurence showing the Treasures
of the Church (1846); St. Sebastian
(1855), ordered by State; Fishermen entering
a Church (1865); Such is the Way to
Heaven (1868); Two Sisters of Charity (1876).
Has executed works in St. Vincent de Paul,
Paris, and other churches.—Vapereau (1880),
306.
BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, FÉLIX SATURNIN,
born at Sens (Yonne); contemporary.
Animal painter, pupil of L. Cogniet.
Medal, 2d class, 1882. Works: In the Plain,
The Thicket (1881); Sheep in Meadow (1882);
Flock of Sheep, Leaving the Park (1883);
Sheep at Rest, The Return (1884); Interior
of Sheepfold, Return of the Flock (1885).
BRISTOL, JOHN BUNYAN, born at
Hillsdale, New York, March 14, 1826. Landscape
painter; pupil at Hudson of Henry
Ary. In 1859 visited Florida and painted
from his sketches tropical pictures which
brought him into notice. Elected an A.N.
A. in 1861, and N.A. in 1874. Studio in
New York. Works: View of Mt. Oxford
(1876, medal of honour, Philadelphia); On
the St. John's River—Florida; Monument
Mountains; Mt. Equinox; View of Lake
Champlain from Ferrisburg (1878), purchased
by Directors of Paris Exposition; Ascutney
Mountains; Valley of the Housatonic;
Delaware River near Port Jervis (1880); Lake
Placid—Adirondacks (1881); Near Stockbridge,
Mass. (1882); Valley of the Connecticut,
Vermont (1883).
BRITTEN, W. E. F., born in England;
contemporary. Exhibits chiefly at Grosvenor
Gallery. Works: Music (1879); Dancing
(1880); Flight of Helen (1881), one of a series
painted for Wyfold Court, seat of late
Edward Hermon, M.P.; Che sará sará, Anglers,
An Idyl, Baby Ida (1882); Boys and
Dolphins, decorative frieze executed for Earl
of Leconfield (1883); Idyl, Genii of Sport
(1885).
BROECK, CRISPIN VAN DEN, born at
Mechlin in 1530 (?), died in Holland about
1601. Flemish school; pupil of Frans Floris;
entered the Antwerp guild in 1555, became
a citizen in 1559. Was also an architect
and engraver on both metal and wood.
Works: Adoration of the Magi, Vienna Museum;
Last Judgment (1571), Antwerp Museum;
do., Brussels Museum; Holy Family,
Madrid Museum.—Cat. du Musée d'Anvers
(1874), 428; Nagler, Mon., ii. 297.
BROECK (Brock), ELIAS VAN DEN,
born in Antwerp (?) about 1657, died in Amsterdam
in 1711. Dutch school; flower
painter, pupil of Cornelis de Heem; his pictures
are true to nature and fine in colouring.
Works: Three pictures of still life, Museum, Vienna;
two in Liechtenstein Gallery,
ib.; Flowers, Rotterdam Museum.—Michiels,
x. 444.
BROEDERLAM (Brooderlam), MELCHIOR,
born at Ypres. Flemish school;
flourished latter part of 14th century, when
he became painter and valet-de-chambre
to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
In 1398 he painted Scripture subjects on
the wings of two shrines sculptured by
Jacques de la Baerse of Dendermonde, for
the Carthusian Convent at Dijon, and now in
the museum of that city. His style has the
faults of the Westphalian school, tempered
by the more graceful and tender feeling of
the school of Cologne.—C. & C., Flemish
Painters, 19; Biog. nat. de Belgique, iii. 78;
Michiels, ii. 33.
BROKEN PITCHER (Cruche cassée), J.
B. Greuze, Louvre; canvas, H. 3 ft. 7 in. × 2
ft. 9 in. A young girl, in a white dress, with
a violet ribbon and white flowers in her hair,
and a gauze fichu which half conceals a
crushed rose upon her breast, stands holding
