PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
The Holy Family.
St. John preaching in the WilJemess.
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Fronti.<!piece for an Almanack ; dated 1694
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BOULLONGNE, Louis de, 'the elder,' (or Bou- logne.) ,1 French painter, was born in Paris in 1609, and was a pupil of Bl.anchard. He visited Rome, and studied the works of Titian, Guido Reni, and other great artists ; and on his return to Paris became professor of the Academy, and painter to the king. His principal works are in the church of Notre-Dame at Paris, where he has painted 'The Miracle of St. Paul at Ephesus,' 'The Martyrdom of St. Simon,' 'The Beheading of St. Paul,' and 'The Presentation in the Temple.' He painted many pictures for churches, and made good copies of several of the masterpieces which the celebrated banker Jabach had purchased from the collection of Charles I. — amongst others, 'Tlie Labours of Hercules,' after Guido ; the ' Marquis del Guasto,' and ' The Disciples at Emmaus,' after Titian ; and a 'Nativity' after Carracci. He died in Paris in 1674. He etched thirty-nine plates, among which may be mentioned : Le Livre de Portraiture (twenty-six plates). A Holy Family, with the Bird. The same subject, at the foot of a Column. The Miracle of St. Paul at Ephesus. The Beheading of St. Paul. The Bape of Helen ; after Guido. His two daughters, Genevievk and Madelaine, were also painters, and were received into the Academy in 1669. Tlie former, who married Jacques Clarion, the sculptor, died at Aix in 1708, aged 6-3, and the latter in Paris in 1710, aged 64.
BOULLONGNE, Louis de, 'the younger,' (or
BOULOGKE,) who was born in Paris in 1654, was the younger son of Louis de Boullongne the elder, and received instruction from his father. He was one of the most assiduous students of the Academy, and g.ained the prize for painting when he was eighteen, and was consequently sent to Rome, under the pension of the king, in 1675. He there copied for the Gobelins manufactor3', in their original size, ' The S jhool of Athens,' and the ' Disputa ' of Raphael. He returned, through Lombardy and Venice, to Paris in 1680, and the following year he was received into the Academy ; his reception picture was 'Augustus ordering the Temple of Janus to bs shut.' In 1693 he was made professor, in 1717 rector, and in 1722 director ; in this same year he received the Order of St. Michael, and was ennobled in 1724. Having in 1725 been appointed painter to Louis XIV., he was employed at Fontainebleau, and in the chSteau of Meudon. In the church of Notre-Dame, at Paris, he executed two fine pictures, 'The Purification,' and ' The Flight into Egypt.' The works of this painter show that he had profited more by his residence at Rome than has been usual with the artists of his nation. There is a fine character in his heiids, his drawing is correct, and his colour is more Wgorous than is generally found in the artists of the French sshool. He died in Paris in 173.3. He exhibited at the Salon from 1699 to 1704. We have the following etchings by him : The Holy Family, the Infant Jesus holding a Bird by a String. Tmc Holy Family, with St. John. The Dead Christ, witn the M irys and Dissiples. The Martyrdom of St. Peter. The Martyrdom of St. Paul. The Flagellation of St. Andrew ; after Paolo Veronese St. Bruuo. The Roman Charity.
BODLONOIS, EsME de, an engraver, from his name was apparently a Frenchman. He was a print-seller, and Mved about the middle of the 16tii century. The prints we have by him are princi- pally portraits, and are entirely worked with the graver, in a neat but stiff style, .mong others, we have the folloving portraits : Christopher Plantin. George Buchanan. Lady Jane Grey. Hans Holbein, painter. Anthony More, painter.
BOUMAN, PlETER, a lands ;a;_ie painter, born at Dordrecht about 1765, painted views in the neighbourhood of Haarlem, waterfalls, winter scenes, and similar subjects, so prevalent with the modem Dutch artists. His works were deservedly held in estimation
BOUNIEU, Michel Honors, a French painter of historical and genre subjects, and engraver in mezzotint, was born at Marseilles in 1740. He was a pupil of Pierre, and became a member of the Academy at Paris in 1767. He was keeper of the prints at the Bibliotheque Nationale from 1792 to 1794, and for th", next twenty years professor of drawing at the Eeole des Ponts-et-Chanssees. He exhibited many pictures at the Salon, and at his own studio those of ' Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Paradise,' and ' Bathsheba,' the former of which he himself engraved. The Bor- deaux Museum has a ' Head of a Woman,' and ' Baigneuses ' by him. _ He died in Paris in 1814, leaving a daughter, Emilie Bousieu, afterwards Madame Raveau, who inherited her father's talent, and exhibited historical subjects and portraits from 1800 to_1819. Bounieu engraved about fifteen subjects from his own designs, among which are the following: Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Paradise. The Magdalen. Love led by Folly. The Punishment of a Vestal. The Birth of Henry IV. ; an allegortj. The Deluge. The Odalisque.
BOUQUET, Emile, a French historical, genre, and landscape painter, was born in 1819 at Lyons, and studied under Bonnefond. He sometimes worked in pastel. He died at Marseilles in 1876.
BOURDON, Pierre, was a French engraver, who resided in Paris about the year 1703. He engraved a set of plates from his own design^, representing ornaments with figures for goldsmiths and jewellers. They are very neatly executed, and are inscribed Petriis Bourdon inv. et fecit.
BOURDON, Pierre Michel, a French historical and portrait painter and engraver, was bom in Paris in 1778. He was a pupil of Regnault, and painted for the town of Pau a ' Crucifixion,' which has been spoken of with praise. He engraved a seriee of plates entitled ' Concours dtjcennal,' as well as some for the ' Mus^e Filhol,' of which he was director. He died in Paris in 1841.
BOURDON, Sebastien, an erainetit French painter and engraver, born at Montpellier on the 2nd of February, 1616, w.is the son of a painter upon glass, from whom he received his earliest
instruction in the rudiments of art. At the age of
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