A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
BRUNT, Fedor Antonovitch, bom in 1801, was
the son of Italian parents domiciled in Russia.
He studied at Rome, but returned to St. Peters-
burg, where he eventually became director of the
Academy of Fine Arts. His principal works are
' The Death of Camilla,' ' Christ in the Garden of
Gethsemane,' ' The Brazen Serpent,' and various
figures in the cathedral of St. Isaac. From 1866
till his death, in 1874, he superintended the School
of Mosaics at St. Petersburg.
BRUNI, Fbancesco, an Italian engraver, was bom at Genoa about the year 1660. We have by him a plate of 'The Assumption of the Virgin,' after Guido.
BRUNI, Geronimo, a famous painter of battle scenes and an etcher, was a pupil of Bourguignon, and was working at Naples in 1660-70.
BRUNI, GiULlo, was a Piedraontese painter, who was educated at Genoa under Lazzaro Tavarone ; but preferring the more pleasing manner of Gio- vanni Battista Paggi, he became his scholar, and proved a very reputable painter of historical sub- jects. According to Soprani, he flourished about the year 1625, and was at that period in great repute in Savoy, when the wars in that country obliged him to leave it and return to Genoa, where he died soon after.
BRUNI, Orazio, an Italian engraver, was born at Siena about the year 1630. He is one of the few Italians who worked entirely with the graver, and appears to have imitated the style of F. de Poilly. He engraved some plates from his own designs, and others from Rutilio Manetti, &c. The following are among his plates :
The Prodigal Son. The Golden Age. A set of the Four Seasons. A set of various Animals. A AVarrior and a Female in a Triumphal Oar, with Minerva presenting a Sceptre.
BRUNN, A. F., was a native of Germany, and flourished about the year 1580. He engraved some plates, which are neatly executed, but in a stiff, Gothic style. Among others is a print repre- senting Christ standing on a mountain, accompanied by an angel, with a female figure, emblematical of the Church, and Satan and his accomplices appear below. It is inscribed A. F. Brunn fecit, by which it may be presumed to be from his own design.
BRUNN, D., was probably a relative of Isaac Brunn. He worked entirely with the graver, in a style that has some resemblance to that of Paul Pontius, but very inferior. Among other plates by him we have a Bacchanalian subject, after Rubens, and a similar subject with boys, after Van Dyck ; signed D- Brunn, Arg^' sculp. 1628.
BRUNN, Franz, was an engraver of Strassburg, who was working from 1559 to 1596, and chiefly devoted to animals and to ecclesiastical and humorous figures. There are many of his pro- ductions in the Louvre. He is supposed to have died in 1620.
BRUNN, Isaac, who was born at Pressburg about the year 1591, was an engraver, designer, and printseller of Strassburg. He engraved in the manner of Theodor de Bry, and, on account of the small size of his prints, is ranked among the Little Masters. There is a neatly-engraved plate by him of ' The Church at Strassburg.' It is signed Isaac Brunn, Argentiends, xa^'oypatpovc, a.d. 1615. Several others are mentioned by BruUiot in his 'Dictionnairedes Monogrammes.' He signed his portraits with the initials J.B., or the H-W annexed cipher.
BRUNNER-LACOSTE, Henri Emile, a painter of fruit, flowers, and game, and of landscape, genre, and decorative subjects, exliibited frequently at the Paris Salon. He died in 1881, aged 43.
BRDNNER, Leopold, a pupil of Drechsler, and painter to the Austrian Court, was bom at Vienna in 1788. He devoted himself especially to the production of landscapes on a large scale, and also flower-pieces. He died at Vienna in 1866. His son, Leopold Bbunner, who was born at Vienna in 1822, died in the same city in 1849, was a painter of landscapes and animals in oil and water-colour ; he also lithographed after Gauer- mann. An Interior of Goat-shed, by him, signed L. BEtTNNEB, 1849, is in the Belvedere, Vienna.
BRUNO, Antonio, a native of Modena or Correggio, painted at Parma in the manner of Allegri, of whom, if he was not a scholar, he was a great imitator. He emulated him in his grace, his nature, his foreshortenings, and his broad lights ; but with a far less correct pencil. He was a contemporaiy of that great genius, as one of his works bears the date of 1530.
BRUNORI, Federiqo, (or Bbungrini,) a pupil of Damiani, followed the Venetian style of painting. His portraits are natural ; he was fond of foreign drapery, and coloured with a strong effect. In some of his compositions he availed himself of the prints of Albrecht Diirer. He was living in 1600.
BRUSASORCI. See Del Ricoi.
BRUSCO. See Poelenburgh.
BKUSSEL, Barend van. See Orley.
BRUSSEL, Hermanus van, a landscape painter and etcher, was born at Haarlem in 1763, and died at Utrecht in 1815. Among his best etchings is mentioned a set of twenty-one landscapes with figures.
BRUSSEL, Paulu-s Theodorcs van, a flower painter, born at Zuid-Polsbroek, near Schoonho- ven, in 1754, was a scholar of Jean Augustin, and of H. Meyer of Haarlem. He was first employed in the manufacture of tapestry, but afterwards devoted his attention entirely to nature, and be- came one of the best fruit and flower painters of his time. His later pictures are liis best, and are to be found in some of the richest collections. He died at Amsterdam in 1795.
BRUSSELS, Bernard of. See Oblet.
BRUSSELS, Roger of. See Van deb Wetden.
BRUYN, Abraham de. See De Brotn.
BRUYN, BARTHOLOMAns, was born at Cologne in the beginning of the 16th century. His early works resemble those of the ' Master of the Death of the Virgin,' whose pupil he is said to have been ; but the paintings executed towards the close of his life show a tendency towards copying the Italians. Bruyn died in 1556. His masterpiece is the wings of a Shrine in the church of Xanten, which were completed in 1536. They represent on the inside the ' Lives of SS. Victor, Sylvester, and Helena ; ' and on the outside the ' Virgin and Child, with Saints.' Portraits and historical pic- tures by this artist are in the following Galleries : Berlin, Gallery, Portrait of Johannes von Eyht, Burgomaster of Cologne, 1525 ; Madonna and Child ; The Incredulity of St. Thomas. Brunswick, Galliry, Two portraits {dated 1539). Brussels, Jluseum, Male portrait, 1543 ; Female portrait, 1537. Cologne,
