- Palermo, Ruins of Greek Theatre at Taormina—Sicily
(1885).
DUBOIS, FRANÇOIS, born in Paris, May
11, 1790, died there, Feb. 8, 1871. History
painter, pupil of Regnault and of the École
des Beaux Arts; won the 2d grand prix in
1817, and the 1st grand prix in 1819. He
was a careful painter in a style now out of
fashion, but he received many orders for
pictures from the Government in his day.
Medal, 1st class, 1831. Works: Themistocles
with Admetus (1819); Clovis when a
Child found by a Fisherman (1822), St.
Louis landing at Damietta (1827), Amiens
Museum; Marguerite d'Anjou taken by
Brigands (1833), Angers Museum; St. Luke
releasing the Prisoners (1827), St. Leu,
Paris; Death of Manlius, Young Woman of
Albano (1831); Distribution of Colours to
the National Guard (1831), Coronation of
Pepin the Short (1838), two portraits of
French Marshals, Versailles Museum; The
Annunciation, Notre Dame de Lorette; Baptism
of Clovis, The Ascension of Christ (1859),
ordered by the State.—Bellier de la Chavignerie,
i. 454; Larousse.
DUBOIS, GUILLAM, died in Haarlem,
buried July 7, 1680. Dutch school; landscape
painter, whose manner is a mixture of
that of Ruysdael and Everdingen. Master
of the guild at Haarlem in 1646. His journey
through the Rhine provinces with Vincent
Laurensz van der Vienne, in 1652-53,
gave him subjects for numerous pictures.
Works: Mountain Landscape, Berlin Museum;
another, Czernin Gallery, Vienna;
another, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Village
on Seashore, Baron Speck von Sternburg,
Lütschena, near Leipsic; View on Rhine,
Dulwich Gallery.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 481.
DUBOIS, LOUIS, born in Brussels in
1830, died there, April 28, 1880. Genre,
landscape, and animal painter, among the
most prominent followers of Courbet, though
not his pupil, and the foremost representative
of the realistic school in Belgium.
Works strongly resemble those of Jacob
Jordaens. Works: Trinitarian Monk, Priest
preparing for Mass (1857); The Storks (186O),
Brussels Museum; Roulette, Choir-Boy
(1860); Solitude, Landscape with Dead Roe
(1863); Rice-Eater (1872); Eva, Healthy
Country (1875); Billiard Player, The Scheldt,
Landscape (1878); Flemish Interior, The
Mill, Autumn in the Ardennes, Cranes and
Ducks, Sunset, Sunrise on a Swamp, The
Meuse near Dordrecht.—Brockhaus, v. 606;
Meyer, Con. Lex., xix. 243.
DUBOULEAU, JEAN AUGUSTE, called
Dubouloz, born in Paris, Feb. 20, 1800, died
there, Aug. 23, 1870. History painter, pupil
of Gros, and of the École des Beaux Arts,
where he made eight unsuccessful attempts
to win the grand prix. Medals: 3d class,
1838; 2d class, 1840. Works: Louis XI.
Hunting, Quentin Durward and Master
Pierre, Louis XI.'s Breakfast, Crillon's Piety,
the Preacher of Pontoise, The Courage
of a Peasant of Pontoise during King John's
Captivity, Christ on the Mount of Olives
(1824 to 1840); The Temptation, May (1857);
The Invasion (1861); The Tempters, The
Call to Wake Up, Blind Man's Buff (1863);
The Pirates (1864); Vive les Brunes! Vive
les Blondes! License destroying Liberty
(1865); The Swing, A Rural Offence (1866);
Sick Child, Jugglers (1868); Group of Children
(1869); Little Bathers (1870); and a
number of portraits.—Bellier de la Chavignerie,
i. 458; Larousse.
DUBOURCQ, PIERRE LOUIS, born in
Amsterdam, April 25, 1815, died there in
1873. Landscape painter, pupil at Hilversum
of Jan van Ravenswaay, and at The
Hague of Andreas Schelfhout; visited in
1836-37 Belgium, Germany, Switzerland,
North Italy, and France, in 1844-45 Italy
and Sicily, and in 1846 Holland, England,
France, and Germany. Works: View near
Orléans; Inundation; Lake Albano; Roman
Campagna; View on Isle of Jersey;
Cemetery at Baden, National Museum, Amsterdam;
View near Rome, Museum Fodor,
ib.—Müller, 145.
DUBREUIL, TOUSSAINT, born in Paris
in 1561, died there, Nov. 22, 1602. French
