executed, while the other prepares to meet his fate; in background, architecture. Collection of Louis XIII.; Salon, 1812; acquired in 1819 for 15,000 fr.—Réveil, x. 659.
BRUYCKER, FRANÇOIS ANTOINE DE,
born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1816. Genre
painter; pupil of Ghent Academy, and in
Antwerp of Ferd. de Braekeleer. Gold
medal in 1860; member of Amsterdam
Academy. Works: Suspicion (1842), Wooing,
Dost Remember? Hot Shells, Spring
Day, Old Gardener (1857), The Widow
(1860), Reminiscence of Olden Times, Funny
Idea, Motherly Caresses, Child and Kitten
(Leipsic Museum), Envy and Distrust.—Art
Journal (1866), 75; Müller, 84.
BRUYN (Brun), BARTHEL, born in Cologne
in 1494, died there between 1556 and
1557. German school; history and portrait
painter; formed himself after Jan Schoreel,
the painter of the Death of the Virgin, and
in his portraits resembled Holbein. Later
he became a weak imitator of the Italian
masters, especially of Michelangelo. Works:
Martyrdom of St. Ursula, Adoration of the
Magi, Burgomaster Browiller, do. and Wife,
Two Male Portraits, Old Lady of the Questenberg
Family, Cologne Museum; Corpus
Christi, Cologne Cathedral; St. Catherine
and 18 others, Munich Gallery; Madonna,
Burgomaster Ryth, Berlin Museum; Portraits
in Städel Gallery, Frankfort, in
Gotha, Brunswick, and Brussels Galleries;
Altarpiece in St. Victor's Church, Xanten
(masterpiece).—Allgem. d. Biog., iii. 456;
Merlo, Nachrichten, 69; W. & W., ii. 497.
BRYES, Greek painter, of Sicyon, father
and master of Pausias, 4th century, B.C.
BUCHSER, FRANZ, born at Feldbrunnen,
near Solothurn, Switzerland, about
1829(?). Genre and portrait painter; studied
in Rome, Paris, and Antwerp; went
to Spain at the age of twenty-two, and
thence to England, where for three years he
painted genre pictures, but more especially
horses and portraits; in 1857 he returned
to Spain, visited Morocco soon after, and
again, during the Spanish campaign of 1860,
in the suite of Gen. O'Donnell. Having returned
to Switzerland he went in 1866 to
America, where he spent five years. Works:
Three Friends; Return from Market, Jews
of Mekiness (1862); Mowers (1867); Mary
Blanc (1869); Negro Picture (1870); Resignation
(1867), Negro Soldiers in Streets of
Washington, Rapids of St. Mary on Lake
Superior, Basle Museum; Caught by the
Tide (1879); Singer of Sudan (1881). Portraits
of Generals Lee and Sherman, Secretary
Sherman, etc.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1873),
ii. 140; Kunst-Chronik, xiv. 605; xvi. 657.
BUCKWHEAT HARVEST (La Récolte
du Sarrasin), Jean François Millet, Martin
Brimmer, Boston. In foreground, a woman
binding sheaves, which another is packing
in a pannier; behind them, several women
carrying panniers to background, where
men are threshing. This picture is the
original pastel, made in 1868, which passed
from the Garet Collection, Paris, to Mr.
Brimmer. The oil picture, painted from
it in 1874 and one of the last pictures on
which Millet worked, was sold at the Frederic
Hartmann sale, Paris (1881), for 47,000
francs. Etched by Charles Courtry.—Gaz.
des. B. Arts (1875), XI. 438.
BUECKLAER (Beukelaar), JOACHIM,
born in Antwerp in 1530, died after 1575.
Flemish school; genre painter, pupil of
Pieter Aertszen. Registered in the Antwerp
guild in 1560. His subjects are chiefly
market and kitchen scenes, also biblical
events admitting of combination with genre.
Works: Purveyor, Lille Museum; Christ
before Pilate (1561), Fish-Market (1568),
Old Pinakothek, Munich; Christ healing the
Lame (1575), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Biog.
nat. de Belgique, ii. 382; Michiels,
vi. 304; Rooses (Reber), 73.
BUFFALMACCO, BUONAMICO, 14th
century, died after 1351. Florentine school;
real name Cristofani Buonamico. According
to Vasari, he died in 1340 at the age of seventy-eight,
but his name appears in the list
of the Florentine Company of Painters of
1351, and Baldinucci says that he lived later
