A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
his occasionally painting attacks of cavalry. After
passing some years in Italy he returned to Flanders with the studies he had made from the
objects worthy of notice in the neighbourhood of
Rome. In 1699 he was made director of the
Academy at Antwerp ; he died there in 1719. The
pictures of this master represent battles, the march
of caravans, horse-fairs, &c., ingeniously composed,
with a number of figures, horses, and other animals,
extremely well drawn, and painted with uncommon
freedom and spirit. He decorated his landscapes
with the ruins of architecture and statues from
the studies he had made in Italy, and his figures
are designed in a superior style to the usual taste
of his country. The Dresden Gallery has six pictures by him, the Vienna Gallery two, the Frankfort two, the Hermitage St. Petersburg one, and
the Copenhagen one. He etched some of his own
works.
BLOEMERS, Arnoldds, born at Amsterdam in 1792, painted flowers, fruit, and animals. He was instructed by Antonie Piera, but principally imitated Van Huijsum. He died at the Hague in 1844. The Rotterdam Gallery has a flower-piece by him.
BLOIS, Abraham de. See De Br.ois.
BLOK, Anna C. See Fischer.
BLOK, Johanna. See Koerten.
BLOKLANDT, Antonis van. See Montfoort.
BLOMBERG, Adqust Gotthold Dietrich Hnao, Baron von, a poet and painter, was born at Berlin in 1820. He studied under Wach in the Academy at Berlin, and under L6on Cogniet at Paris, and copied Rubens's works in the Louvre. He died at Weimar in 1871. Among his paintings may be mentioned :
'Das Dornroschen.' 1844. Neptune and Amyraone. 1847. Tweuty-sevea sketches from Dante. A Town of the Middle-Ages. The Merchant of Venice. 1866. Benvenuto Celliui in Eugelsberg. King William at Kouiggratz. 1867.
BLOMMENDAAL, Reyer Jacobsz, a painter of Haarlem, entered the Guild of that city in 1662, and died there in 1675. Nothing further is known of him.
BLOND, Le (or Blon). See Le Blond.
BLONDEAU, Jacques, a French engraver, was born at Langres about the year 1639. He en- graved at Rome several plates after the Italian painters, and some after the ]ncture3 of Pietro da Cortona in the Pitti Palace at Florence. He seems to h.ave imitated the style of Cornells Bloemaert, but he never in any way equalled that fine engraver. He also engraved some portraits, without putting his name on the plates. We have by him the following:
PORTRAITS. Carfliual Francesco Lorenzo Brancati. 1681. Cardinal Fortnna Caraffa. 1686. Cardinal Ma.xirailian Gandolfl. 1685. Cardinal Opitius Pallavicini. General Euee, Count of Caprara. Rene d'Est, Duke of Modenii. John George III., Elector of Saxony. John Sobiesld, King of Poland. Cardinal Bichi ; after JSourgirjnon ; oval.
SUBJECTS AFTER VARIOUS MASTERS.
The Pulpit of St. Peter ; after Bernini. The Magdalene, half length ; after Calandntcct. The Martyrdom of St Laurence ; after Pietro da Cor-tona. Eight allegorical subjects ; from the pictures by Pietro da Cortona, in the Pitti Palace ; small plates. The Circumcision ; after C. Ferri. The Crucifixion ; after the same. St. Augustine appearing to St. Theresa; after the
BLONDEEL, Lansloot, or Lancelot, who was born at Bruges about 1495, was originally a mason, on which account he took a trowel as his monogram. He did not turn his attention towards art until he was twenty-five years of age. His pictures display a study of the Italian style, and are noticeable for architectural backgrounds. Speci- mens are in the churches of Bruges and elsewhere. A 'Last Judgment', in the Berlin Gallery, formerly given to him, is now thought to be possibly_ by Jehan Bellegambe. Blondeel designed the chim- ney-piece in the Council Hall at Bruges, which contains statues of Charles V. and other monarchs. He died at Bruges in 1560.
BLONDEL, Jean Francois, a French architect and engraver, was born at Rouen in 1705. He came to Paris in 1739, and opened a school, the fame of which gained him admission into the Academy in 1755. He published a de-scription of the fetes given by the city of Paris in 1740, on the marriage of Madame Louise Elizabeth of France with Don Philip, Infant of Spain. The plates, representing the temporary buildings, fire- works, &c., are chiefly engraved by himself. He also etched the plates for some large volumes on Architecture, published by himself. Blondel died in Paris in 1774.
BLONDEL, Merry Joseph, a French historical painter, was born in Paris in 1781. He was a pupil of Regnault, carried off the grand prize in 1803, and was elected a member of the Institute in 1832. His principal works are—' Philip Augustus at Bouvines' (1819), painted for the Duke of Orleans ; ' The Fall of Icarus,' and ' .ffiolus letting loose the Winds against the Trojan Fleet ; ' the grand staircase of the Louvre, the ceiling of the hall of Henry IL, and that of the Grand Hall, in the same building ; ' Justice protecting Commerce,' six very effective bas-reliefs in grisaille in the Bourse at Paris ; the Gallery of Diana, at Fon- tainebleau ; ' Homer at Athens,' and ' Zenobia on the Shore of the Araxes,' formerly in the Luxem- bourg ; 'The Surrender of Ptolemais to Philip Augustus,' at Versailles, and several others. He died at Paris in 1853.
BLOOT, PiETER DE. See De Bloot.
BLOOTELING, Abraham, (or Blotelinq,) a very eminent Dutch designer and engraver, was born at Amsterdam in 1634. From the style of his etchings it is not unlikely that he was brought up under the Visschers. On the inroad of the French into Holland in 1672, he came to England, where he met with encouragement, but did not reside here longer than two or three years. This laborious artist produced a great number of etchings, some plates executed with the gr.aver, and several in mezzotint. In 1685 he published the collection of gems of Leonardo Agostini, etched by himself. He died after 1698. He some- times signed his plates with his name at length, and sometimes marked them with a cipher, com- posed of A and B, thus -^ . The works of this engraver are sufficiently interesting to excuse our giving a more than usually detailed list of
them :
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