PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
He was elected an associate of the Water-Colour
Society in 1834, and a full member in 1844, and
constantly contributed to their annual exhibitions.
His subjects are views in France, Holland, and
Italy, as well as on the shores of his native country.
He died of cholera in 1854.
BENTLEY, Joseph Clayton, a line-engraver, was born at Bradford in 1809. His first attempt in art was landscape painting ; but coming to London in 1832, he commenced to study engraving under R. Brandard. Some of his best plates were engraved for the Vernon Gallery, after Gains- borough, Callcott, and Linnell. Always of a weak constitution, his health entirely gave way under too persistent exertion, and he died in 1851.
BENTLEY, Richard, the only son of the eminent classical scholar Dr. Bentley, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was an amateur artist of some celebrity towards the end of the last century. He is best known by his illustrations of the edition of Gray's works which Horace Walpole printed at Strawberry Hill. He died in 1782.
BENTUM, Justus van, a pupil of Godefned Schalken, was born at Leyden in 1670, and died in 1727. lie painted in the manner of his master. A picture by him of a 'Cake-seller' is in the Belvedere at Vienna.
BENVENDTI, De'. See Bologna, Simone da.
BENVENDTO, Giovanni Baitista, called Dell' Obtolano, because his father, Francesco di Benvenuto, was a gardener, was bom at Ferrara about the year 1490. By some writers his birth is placed as early as 1467. After studying some time in his native city, he went to Bologna, where, in 1512-13, he was influenced in his painting by the works of Raphael ami Bagnacavallo. He painted in the style of Dosso Dossi. Barotti mentions several of the works of Benvenuto in his description of Ferrara, where they are highly esteemed. In the church of San Niccol6 he painted, in 1520, the ' Virgin Mary and Infant Jesus,' with several Saints ; in Santa Maria de' Servi the ' Nativity ; ' and in San Lorenzo the ' Adoration of the Magi.' From 1512 to 1524 he worked at Ferrara. He is supposed to have died, while still young, in 1525. His best work is a 'St. Sebastian, St. Roch, and St. Demetrius,' in the National Gallery — formerly in the parochial church of Bondeno, near Ferrara. In the Ferrara Gallery there are a 'Nativity ' and a ' Christ in the Garden ' by him.
BENVENUTO, Pietro, who was born at Arezzo in 1769, studied the works of Andrea del Sarto at Florence, and those of Raphael at Rome. He was also nmch influenced by the style of J. L. David, and was considered one of the leading painters of the modern Tuscan school. His style is noble and elevated, although somewhat chargeable with coldness, his design pure and correct, and his colour often brilli mt. He painted ' The Saloon of Hercules,' in the Pitti Palace, and the cupola of the chapel of the Medici. The last-named is one of the most important of his works ; in it are represented eight grand subjects, taken from the Old and the New Testament, the four Prophets and the four Evangelists. It was under the superintendence of this artist that Cario Lassinio engraved the subjects in the famous Riccardi Gallery, painted by Luca Giordano. He died at Florence in 1844, while holding the post of Director of the Academy. Amongst his best works may be mentioned the following :
Arezzo. Cathedra!. Judith displaying the head of Holofemps to the assembled people (engraved hi; liicciani). Florence. Pal. Corsini. Pyrrhus killing Priam, after the taking of Troy {engraved by the same). „ S. Lorenzo. Scenes from the Old and New Testament — on the celling of the Choir chapel (fresco). „ Uffizi. His own Portrait. Ravenna. Cathedral. The death of St. Chrysologus.
BENVENUTO da GAROFALO. See Tisi.
BENVENUTO (di Giovanni) del GUASTA. Sve Del Guasta, Benvenuto.
BENWELL, John Hodges, born at Blenheim in 1764, studied in the Royal Academy Schools, and in 1782 gained a silver medal. Some of his works, such as his ' Auld Robin Gray,' ' Children in the Wood,' &c., were engraved. He used water-colours and crayons in an effective manner. He died in 1785, and was buried in Old St. Pancras churchyard.
BENWELL, Mary, a painter of portraits in crayons and in miniatures, exhibited her works at the Incorporated Artists' Society and the Royal Academy between 1760 and 1782. Her portrait of 'Queen Charlotte' was engraved by Richard Houston. Late in life she married a Mr. Code, and resided at Paddington, where it is believed she died soon after 1800.
BENZONO, Antonio, was a Veronese painter of the Ifitb century, and a disciple of Francesco Carota. The Gallery at Verona possesses a ' Virgin and Child, between St. Jerome and St. George,' signed and dated by him in 1531. No dates are given of his birth or death.
BER, Jacob, (commonly called Jacobber,) was born at Bliescastel, in Bavaria, about 1806, and studied under Gerard van Spaendonck. He held for a long time the post of flower and fruit painter at the porcelain factory at Sevres. Ber received numerous medals for his fruit and flower paintings, and the cross of the Legion of Honour. He died, in 1864.
BERAIL, FRANgois, a French painter and geographer, was born in 1665 at Chateaudun, where he died in 1732. There is a view of the Royal Abbey of the Magdalen at Chateaudun, engraved after him by J. B. Scotin.
BERAIN, Jean, 'the elder,' a French painter, was born in Paris about the year 1638. He was appointed in 1674 "dessinateur de la Chambre et du Cabinet du Roi," in which capacity it was his duty to design the scenery and costume for the court fetes and ballets. He died in Paris in 1711.
BERAIN, Jean, ' the younger,' who was bom in 1674, and died in 1726, succeeded his father, Jean Berain the elder, as draughtsman to the king, and etched several plates, mostly from his own designs, in very neat manner, though rather stiff and formal ; among others are the following : Twelve plates — Of the ornaments of painting and sculpture, which are in the gallery of Apollo in the Louvre.
The Mausoleum for the Funeral of Maria Anna Christina Victoria of Bavaria. Derices for a Funeral Ceremony.
BERANGER, Charles, a French painter of animals and fruit, was born at Sevres in 1816. He was a pupil of Paul Delaroche, and died in Paris in 1853.
BERARDI, Fabio, an Italian engraver, born at Siena in 1728. He went to Venice when young
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