A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
those of the earlier period, who invented their own
subjects. He sometimes marked his plates (>
with his name, and sometimes with the ciplier ljC|
annexed. The foUowine are his principal fi=J
works :
COPrER-PLATES.
The Portrait of George Wicelans. 1542. The Portrait of Jolin II., Abbot of Fulda. Samson and Dehlah ; Juhatines Brosamer Fulda degetis faciebat, 15 M. B. 45. David and Bathslieba. Solomon and his Wives worshipping the Idol. 1543. Xantippe ridmg on Socrates. Laocoon and his Children. 1533. Marcus Curtlus leaping into the Gulf ; circular. 1540. The Judgment of Paris. The Crucifixion ; Joh. Brosamer Fulda degens faciebat, 1542; fine.
WOODCUTS.
Creation of Eve. Eve giving Adam the apple. Bathsheba in the Bath. Queen of Sheba before Solomon. The I.ast Supper. SS. Jerome, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, James the Great. John the Baptist in Prison. Twenty-one pieces from the Eevelation.
PORTBAITS.
Eoben Hess, the poet. George Sturtz, physician. Phihp, Landgrave of Hesse. Hans Sachs : with the following inscription : " 1545. Hans Sachs. Alter 51 j.ar : " Hans Sachs, at the age of 51. 1545. On this print M. Derschau observes, on the authority of a MS. note on an old impression, that Brosamer had made a gift of this engraving to the * ma.ster-singer ' on the 51st anniversary of his birth. V. B. S
BROSTERHOUS, Jan van, (Bbostebhust, or Brosterhuizen,) is the name of a landscape painter and engraver of the early part of the 18th centm'y. Little is known of his life, but he is said to have resided in the Netherlands. He etched in the style of Ruisdael, and his plates, of which six- teen are known, representing landscapes, villages, &c., are executed in a tasteful and pleasing man- ner. They are signed th. & B, ov a. B and an R interlaced.
BROSTOLONI, Giovaxn'I Battista, an Italian engraver, was born at Venice about the year 1726. He is said to have been a pupil of Joseph Wagner. We have the following plates by him : Portrait of Pope Benedict XTV. ; an oval plate. A Vignette, vith the Portrait of Benedict XTV. St. Theresa in Adoration. A set of twenty Views in Venice ; after Canaletti. 1763. Another set of twelve large plates ; after the same, with the Ceremonies of the Election of the Doge, and his Marriage with the Adriatic.
BROUCK, Moses Vtt den, (or Van Bbouck). See Uytenbrodck.
BROUWER, Adbiaen, (or BRAtro'EB, or De Bradwere.) was bom about the year 1605, pro- bably at Gudenaerde. Haarlem is considered by some writers to be the place of his birth. As related by Houbraken and Descaraps, the life of Brouwer is a tale of opportunities wasted and talents misapplied, a tale of drunken bouts and times of poverty. But later researches have dis- covered sufficient to do more than throw doubts even on these statements ; and in his epitaph, pub lished by Do Bie, we read that he was ' a man of great mind, who rejected every splendour of the world, and who despised gain and riches.' His mother, a dressmaker at Haarlem, entrusted young Adriaen to the tender care of Hals, who, if report speak true, used him but ill. He made him work without ceasing, and starved him for his pains. Leaving Hals, Brouwer wandered to Amsterdam, where his talents soon met with the recognition they deserved. From Amsterdam he went to Antwerp, where he was thrown into prison as a spy. He was released through his own talents and the intercession of Rubens, who would have had him reside with him. But his biographers tell us that he considered Rubens's splendour little better than the Duke of Arenberg's prison. In 1631-32, Brouwer was received into the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp, and in that year liia portrait was painted by Van Dyck ; in 1634-5 he was made a member of the society called ' The Violet.' He died at Antwerp in 1638, and was buried in the Church of the Carmelites. Genuine works by Brouwer are now rarely met with ; they were highly esteemed even in his own time. Rubens and Rembrandt both possessed several of them. Though resident for some time at Antwerp, he is essentially Dutch in character ; and almost without exception his pictures represent Dutch interiors, with peasants, drinking, smoking, and playing, and as often as not quarrelling ; and they are /^"^ especially esteemed for their colouring. X ^ The following are some of the principal : Amsterdam. Museum, A Village Kevel. BerUn Jluseum. The Toilet (engraved in the series of ' The fStten Sins ' as ' iS«- perbia ') ; doubled.
Brussels. Museum. A Fight in a Cibaret „ Arenberg Col. Interior of a Tavern. Cassel. Gallery. Peasants Playing Cards. „ „ Peasants in an .le-house. Dresden Gallery. Two Peasants Fighting. „ „ Two Peasants Sitting at a Table. „ „ A Caricature (a study). Dulwich. Gallery. Interior of an Ale-house. Florence. UJUzi. Peasants Drinking in a Tavern. „ „ The Topers. Frankfort. Stdilel. A Peasant doctormg the foot of another Peasant. „ „ A Peasant having his back doc- tored. A. B. ,, „ A Man taking Medicine. A. B. London. Bridaewater i r» i. o- flouse. Peasants Singing. „ Hertford House. A Sleeping Peasant. Madrid. Museum. The Comic Trio. Munich. Pinakot/tek. Feasants playing Cards. „ „ Spanish Soldiers playing at Dice. „ „ Three Peasants smoking. „ „ A Peasant playing the Fiddle while others sing. ., „ Two Peasants fighting separated by a third. „ ., Peasants fighting in an Ale-house. „ ., A Village Doctor dressing a Pea- sant's Arm. „ ., Peasants Singing. ., „ -A. Peasant with a Lame Foot. Paris. Louvre. Interior of a Smoking-room. „ „ The Smoker. A. b. Pestb. Gallery. Peasants drinking. Petersburg. JJer/'nVnyf. The Drinker {with monogram). „ „ Peasants in an Ale-house. „ „ Peasants quarrelling. „ The Flute Player. Vienna. Gallery. A Peasant sitti;ig on a Cask. „ Czeriiin Coll. Peasants.
We have a few etchings by Brouwer, executed with great spirit, and full of character, as follow:
A company of four Peasants ; inscribed T^ $a vrienden. t^c.
A Woman playing on the Flageolet, and Peasants duno-ing; inscribed Lustig spell, t^c.
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