Daughter of Premysl, Ottokar I. taken from Convent by Waldemar of Denmark (1876); The Good Friend (1876); Embassy of Ladislaus of Bohemia to Charles VII. of France (1878), National Gallery, Berlin; Game of Chess (1879); Meeting of Charles IV. with Petrarch and Laura at Avignon (1879); Reading the Bible, M. K. Jessup, New York; Condemnation of John Huss by Council of Constance in 1415 (1883); My Children (1884); First Presentation (1885).—Müller, 82.
BRUANDET, LAZARE, born in Paris
in 1755, died there in 1803. Landscape
painter, in style of Ruisdael. Painted forest
views with success. Work: View in
Forest of Fontainebleau (1785), Louvre.—Siret,
142; Ch. Blanc, École française.
BRUCK, LAJOS (Louis), born at Papa,
Hungary, Nov. 3, 1846. Genre painter;
pupil of Vienna Academy; studied in 1869-72
in Italy, especially in Venice, where he
was for a short time a pupil of the Academy;
also pupil in Paris of Munkacsy.
Works: Unwilling Scholar, D. W. Powers,
Rochester, N. Y.; Love Letter, M. K. Jessup,
New York; Departure for the City (1877);
The Letter (1878); Forsaken (1879); Suitable
Outfit (1880); Fruit Girl, H. V. Newcomb,
New York; Children at Play, J. W.
Drexel, New York; Noonday Rest (1883);
Foundery (1884); L'avare (1885).—Müller, 82.
BRUCKMANN, FERDINAND ALEXANDER,
born at Ellwangen, Feb. 21, 1806,
died in Stuttgart, Feb. 9, 1852. History
and portrait painter; pupil of Wächter in
Stuttgart, in 1826, and of H. von Hess in
Munich, in 1827-29. In 1829 he went to
Rome, and returned to Munich in 1833,
when he painted in the king's bedchamber
fourteen subjects from Theocritus, partly
after sketches by Hess, partly after his
own. From 1840 he painted almost exclusively
portraits, in Stuttgart, temporarily
also in Ulm, Augsburg, and Zürich. Became
insane in consequence of an accident
in 1835, and eventually committed suicide.
Works: Barbarossa's Body taken out of the
Calycadnus, Women of Weinsberg, Thusnelda
in Captivity, Stuttgart Gallery; The
Maiden from Afar, Royal Castle, Friedrichshafen;
The Sirens, Romeo and Juliet, Birth
of Venus, St. Lucas, Allegories of the Fine
Arts.—Allgem. d. Biogr., iii. 397; Raczynski,
ii. 205.
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BRUEGHEL (Breughel), JAN, called
Fluweelen
(Velvet)
Bruegel,
born in Brussels
in 1568,
died in Antwerp,
Jan 13,
1625. Flemish
school;
son of Peeter
B. the elder;
painted chiefly landscapes, but also genre
and mythological subjects, animals and still
life; pupil at Antwerp of Peeter Goetkint,
but mostly self-taught; highly gifted and
versatile. After a sojourn in Italy (1593-96),
settled at Antwerp, where he was master of
the guild in 1597, dean in 1602; a citizen
in 1601. Was in Nuremberg in 1616. His
works are characterized by realism, finish
to the finest details, brilliancy of colour,
and correct perspective. Though a conscientious
and industrious artist, he was a
rapid worker; greatly esteemed by his contemporaries,
he had a lasting influence, and
trained several pupils and followers of renown;
often worked conjointly with Van
Balen, Rottenhammer, and Rubens, with
whom he was allied in close friendship.
Works: The Five Senses (7), The Four
Elements (4), Sciences and Arts, Earthly
Paradise (3), Park of Brussels, thirty-seven
others, Madrid Museum; Landscape (1600),
Bridge of Talavera (1610), Earthly Paradise
(1611), The Air (1621), three others, Louvre,
Paris; Sermon of St. Norbert at Antwerp,
Autumn, Brussels Museum; Pietà (figures
by Rubens), Antwerp Museum; Earthly
Paradise (figures by Rubens), Flight into
Egypt (figures by Rottenhammer), City on
