flowers in her robe, and bearing on her arm a cracked pitcher. Bought at sale of Marquis de Verri (1785) for 3000 fr. Engraved by Massard; A. Leroy. Study in National Gallery, Edinburgh.
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Broken Pitcher, Jean Baptiste Greuze, Louvre.
BROMEIS, AUGUST, born at Wilhelmshohe,
near Cassel, Nov. 28, 1813, died in
Cassel, Jan. 12, 1881. Landscape painter,
pupil of the Cassel Academy; studied in
1831-33 in Munich, then until 1848 in Rome,
under Jos. Ant. Koch. After his return lived
in Cassel and Frankfort, and in 1857 moved
to Düsseldorf, principally for the sake of
being near A. Achenbach. In 1867 he became
professor at the Cassel Academy.
Member of Berlin Academy. Works: Twilight
(1861), View near Olevano, Two Landscapes
from the Habichtswald, View in the
Campagna (1862), Cassel Gallery; Grave of
Archimedes, View in Sabine Mountains,
Moorish Laundry near Palermo, Wood near
Düsseldorf, Italian Landscape with Calabrian
Shepherd (1869), National Gallery, Berlin;
Civitella by Moonlight (1866); Capri
(1874); From the Campagna (1879).—Müller,
79; Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 296.
BRONCHORST (Bronckhorst), JAN
VAN, born at Utrecht in 1603, died at Amsterdam
in April, 1678 (?). Dutch school;
genre and landscape painter; first studied
glass painting under Jan Verburgh, then at
Arras under Peter Mathys, and in Paris
under Chamu; after his return was induced
by his friendship with Poelenburg to take
up oil painting, which he studied by himself.
Works: Assembly with Young Man
playing Guitar (1644), do. with Young Girl;
Arcadian Concert, Brunswick Museum;
Grotto with bathing Nymphs, Liechtenstein
Gallery, Vienna; Landscape, Rotterdam
Museum.—Immerzeel, i. 104; Kramm, i.
165; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 185.
BRONIKOFF, THEODOR, born at
Schadrinsk, Siberia, in 1826. History and
genre painter; pupil of St. Petersburg
Academy, where in 1853 he received the
great gold medal; then studied for five
years in Germany, France, Italy, and the
East. Studio in Rome. Works: Pætus
and Arria, Pythagoreans greeting Sunrise,
Horace reading his Satires to Augustus,
Alcibiades and Aspasia before the Archon,
The Outcast, Names' Day, Meeting of the
Council of Ten in Venice, Christian Doctrine,
Peasant Girl of Nemi, A Master in
Mosaics before the Tribunal of Three in
Venice (1867).—Müller, 79.
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BRONZINO, AGNOLO (Angiolo), born
at Monticelli,
near Florence,
in 1502-3, died
in Florence,
Nov. 23, 1572.
Florentine
school; real
name Agnolo
or Angiolo di
Cosimo Allori,
but commonly
called Il Bronzino.
Pupil of Raffaelino del Garbo and
later of Jacopo da Pontormo, whom he
assisted in some of his most considerable
works. He was a great admirer of Michel-
