BYLERT, JAN VAN, born at Utrecht, died there after 1669. Dutch school; genre painter, pupil of Abraham Bloemaert; went via France to Rome, where he worked for a number of years; returned to Utrecht about 1630 and became master of the guild; in 1632 and repeatedly afterward mentioned as its dean. His pictures are rare. Works: Family Pictures (3), Utrecht Museum; Laban and Rachel, Young Women with Ring, Rotterdam Museum; Young Woman, Cassel Gallery; Pancake Eater, Girl counting Money (1626), Girl with Zither, Brunswick Gallery; Family Scene, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; St. Sebastian, Harrach Gallery, ib.—Bode, Studien, 170; Kramm, i. 198; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 183.
BYSS, JOHANN RUDOLF, born at Solothurn,
Switzerland, in 1660, died in Würzburg
in 1738. German school; history, landscape,
and animal painter; went to Italy
about 1700, and was called to Vienna in 1704,
by Leopold I., to paint the ceiling of the
great audience room. Lothar Franz von
Schönborn, Elector of Mayence, and Prince
Bishop of Bamberg, employed him about
1712 to paint at Castle Gaibach, and after
the building of Castle Pommersfelden, made
him supervisor of its picture gallery. After
his patron's death he lived at Würzburg.
Works: Allegory, Paradise (2) with many
Birds and Animals, Pommersfelden Gallery.
Others in Bamberg, Würzburg, Schleissheim,
and Vienna.—Allgem. d. Biog., iii.
679.
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CABANEL, ALEXANDRE, born at
Montpellier, Sept. 28, 1823. History,
genre and portrait painter; pupil
of Picot; won the grand prix de Rome in
1845; medal, 2d class, 1852; 1st class, 1855;
of honour, 1865, 1867, 1878; L. of Honour,
1855; Officer, 1864; Commander, 1884;
Member of Institute, 1863. Professor in
the École des Beaux Arts. He painted previous
to 1861 in the classical style of David,
of which no trace is visible in his later work.
Works: Agony of Christ (1844); Death of
Moses (1852), Corcoran Gallery, Washington;
Chapel-Master's
Window
(1859); Expulsion
from Paradise
(1863), Maximilianeum,
Munich;
Giacomina (1872);
John the Baptist
(1874); Apotheosis
of St. Louis
(1855), Death of
Francesca da Rimini
and Paolo Malatesta (1870), Rape of
the Nymph, Birth of Venus (1863), Thamar
(1875), Luxembourg; Portia in Merchant of
Venice (1881); Venetian Lady of 6th century
(1882); portraits of Rouher (1861), Napoleon
III. (1864), Mr. Mackay (1879), and others.
Works in United States: Lucretia and Tarquinius
Sextus (1877), Ruth and Boaz, Samuel
Hawk Collection, New York; Shulamite
(1876), Portrait of a Lady, Miss C. L. Wolfe,
New York; Florentine Poet, Desdemona, J.
H. Warren, Hoosac Falls, N. Y.; Florentine
Poet, St. Aglaia and St. Boniface, Israel
Corse, New York; Angel of the Ave
Maria, D. T. Buzby, Baltimore; Ginevra
Amieri, Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland; Pandora
(1873), Portrait of Mlle. Nilsson, W. T.
Walters, Baltimore; Eve after the Fall, H.
L. Dousman, St. Louis; Eve after the Expulsion,
S. A. Coale, St. Louis; Penelope,
Mrs. C. Crocker, San Francisco; Italian
Maiden, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia;
Evening Star, W. P. Bement, Philadelphia;
Phœdra, Mr. Leiter, Chicago; Phædra (1880),
J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Magdalen at the
Tomb, C. P. Huntington, New York; Echo,
C. S. Smith, New York; Samson and Delilah,
Wm. Astor, New York; Pia de Tolomei,
W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; Birth of Venus,
H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia; do., J. Wolfe,
New York; Marguérite, J. T. Raynor, New
