A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
became the author of a very attractive style. An
uncoinnionly graceful turn of his heads, an ex-
pression of devotion and fervent piety in his
figures (which generally represents sacred sub-
jects), a freshness of colour approaching to Titian,
are the characteristics of the works of Bonvicino.
He occasionally painted in fresco, but was less
successful in this than in oil. The date of his
death is unrecorded ; he painted as late as 1554,
and died probably in 1555. He was buried in the
church of San Clemente, Brescia, which city pos-
sesses many of his best works. The following is
a list of Moretto's most important paintings : —
Berlin, Museum, Virgin and Child, St. Elizabeth, and
Saints (sii/ned ales : moeettvs Peix F mdxli) ;
Adoration of the Shepherds (signed). Brescia, S.
Clemente, Five Virgin Martyrs ; Ascension of the
Virgin ; St. Ursula ; .S". Francesco, Majesty of St.
Margaret, 1530; 5. Giovanni Evangelistci, CoTou&i'ion
of the Virgin (an early vrork) ; Massacre of the
Innocents; Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist
{jyaintcd in 1521 in competition with Romanino) ; ij.
Maria delle Grazie, Enthronement of St. Anthony
of Padua ; *S. Maria Calchera, Christ in the house of
Simon, 1544; Gallery, St. Nicholas of Ban, 1539,
and many others ; SS. Nazaro e Celso, Coronation of
the Virgin ; Transfiguration, 1541 ; Tosi Coll.,
Virgin and Child in Heaven; Supper at Emmaus;
Portraits. Florence, I'ffizi, Portrait of a Man;
Descent of Christ into Hades. Fraulifort, Stddel,
The Virgin and Child with SS. Anthony and
Sebastian. London, Xational Gallery, Portrait of
Count Sciarra Martinengo Cesaresco ; St. Bernardino
with various Saints ; Portrait of an ItaHan Noble-
man, 1526. Paris, Louvre, St. Bernardino of Siena
and St. Louis of Toulouse ; St. Bonaventura and St.
Anthony of Padua. Petersburg, Herviitat/e, Faith
{formerly called a Palma J'ecchio). Venice, S.
Maria della Pieth, The Feast of the Pharisee {signed
AxEX MoRETTUS Beix. F. KDXLTiin). Verona, S.
Giorgio Maggiore, Virgin and four female Saints,
1540. Vienna, Belvedere, St. Justina and a Kniglit
{one of his best works; formerly ascribed to Pordenone
and engraved, hy Rahl, as his work).
BONVIN, Francois Saint, a French painter of Btill-life and of interiors in the style of Chardin, born at Vaugirard, Paris, November 22, 1817, His father was a garde-champetre, and Bonvin was educated in the drawing-school of the Rue de rficole de Mddecine. For more than thirty years be was a constant exhibitor at the Salon, gaining the Legion of Honour in 1870. In 1881 he entered the Hospital of Saint Jean de Dieu to be operated on for the stone, and for the rest of his life was an invalid. He died in 1888. Pictures :
L'ficole des Orphelins (Langres Museum); La Charity (yiort Museum); Le Refectoire; Servante a la Fontaine {Luj:enibourg 3Iuseum).
BONZI, PiETRO Paolo, who was bom at Cortona, is generally known as II Gobbo (the Hunchback). He is sometimes called da Cortona, from his birth- place ; sometimes de' Carracci, from his having been brought up in their academy ; most fre- quently dalle Frutta, from his excellence in paint- ing fruit. He first attempted historical painting, and gave proof of his incompetency in his picture of 'The Incredulity of St. Thomas,' in the Rotunda at Rome. He was not much more successful in landscapes. But he surpassed every artist of his country in painting fruit. His arrangement of these objects is tasteful and picturesque, and his colouring has all the voluptuous richness of nature, with a relief that is peifect deception. His works oie the ornaments of several of the palaces at Rome, particularly the festoons in the Palazzo Mattei. His oil pictures are not less admired than his works in fresco. In the Stockholm Gallery are five fruit pieces hy him. A male portrait by him is in the IJerlin Gallery ; and in the Louvre is a picture, attributed to him, of 'Latona turning the Peasants into Frogs.' He died at Rome, aged 60, during the pontificate of Urban VIIl. (1623— 1644).
BOOM. See Verboom.
BOON, Daniel, a Dutch painter, flourished in England in the reign of Charles II. He painted drunken scenes and revellings, in which his ambi- tion appears to have been to introduce as much of ugliness and deformity as a mind naturally vulgar could conceive. He died in London in 1G98.
BOONEN, Arnold van, an eminent jiortrait painter, was bom at Dordrecht in 1669. He was tirst a scholar of Arnold Verbius, but afterwards of Godefried Schalken. He painted genre pictures in the style of the latter, but met with such en- couragement in portrait painting that he devoted himself almost wholly to that branch of art. He was an' excellent colourist, a faithful designer of his model, and was soon distinguished .is one of the ablest artists of his daj-. He painted a great number of portraits, among whom were Peter the Great, the Elector of Mentz, the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, the Prince and Princess of Orange, and the Duke of Marlborough. He painted some large pictures for the halls of the difTerent companies at Amsterdam and Dordrecht He died in 1729. The Dresden Gallery has seven works by him. His son, Kaspeb van BuONEN, also painted portraits.
BOONEN. Jasper van, who was born at Dor- drecht in 1677, was a younger brother of Arnold van Boonen. He painted portraits with consider- able success. He died in his native town in 1729. BOOTH, William, who was born at Aberdeen in 1807, was noted for his female portraits in miniature. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1827 to 1845, the year of his death.
BORCH, Gerard ter. See Ter Borch,
BORCHT, VAN der. See Van der Borcht,
BOKCHT, Jacob k, an engraver, executed several of the plates for the 'Academie de I'Espee,' by G. Tliibault, published at Antwerp in 1628. He worked entirely with the graver in a style resem- bling th.at of J.akob de Gheyn.
BOKDIER, Pierre, of Geneva, flourished in the 17th century. He was the friend, and subsequently brother-in-law, of Jean Petitot the elder, and as- sisted him in many of his works, usually executing the liair of his portraits and the backgrounds. Works executed entirely by him are very rare, and he was more famous for his discoveries in modes of miniature painting and enamelling than for any particular picture. It is said that he was employed by the Parliament to paint a ' Memorial of the Battle of Naseby,' which they presented to Fairfax, their victorious general. See also Petitot, Jean, ' the elder.'
BORDINO, J. F., an Italian engraver, flourished about the year 1604. He engraved the plates for a volume in quarto, entitled, 'Series et Gesta Pon- tificum,' published in the above year.
BORDONE, Paris, an eminent painter of the Venetian school, was bom at Treviso in 1500. He was of a noble family, and after having received an education suited to his birth, as he had shown a decided inclination for art, he was placed in the
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