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BLAKELOCK tique School of Royal Academy. Began by I painter ; pupil of Bin and Cabanel. Won making designs for book illustrations, of the pris de Rome in 18G7. Medals : 1870 ; which he published a great number, many of them in colours. He exhibited a few works at the Royal Academy, among them Death of Earl Godwin (1780); Breach in a City the Morning after Battle, War un- chained by an Angel (1784); History of Jo- seph (1785); Last Sapper (1799); Jacob's Dream, Christ Angels (1808). in Sepulchre guarded by In the National Gallery is his Spiritual Form of Pitt guiding Behe- moth. He also published many works en- graved by himself, and poems illustrated by himself. Gilchrist, Life (London, 1863); Swinburne, Life (London, 1868); Cat. Nat. Gal. ; C. Carr, Essays, 35 ; Rossetti, Memoir in his edition of Blake's Poems (1876), 67. BLAKELOCK, RALPH ALBERT, bom New York, in 1847. Self-taught. Stu- 1st class, 1872 ; 2d class, 1878 ; L. of Hon- our, 1878. Works : Thetis taking to Achil- les the Arms forged by Vulcan, Murder of Laius by (Edipus (1867); The First Sin (1869); Perseus (1870), Luxembourg; Re- moval of the Palladium (1872); The Inva- sion (1873); The Rescue, Clovis's Vow in the Battle of Tolbia and his Baptism (1876), sketch of paintings for the Pantheon ; Brig- and's Wife (1878), M. Pasteur ; Judith and in dio in New York. Works: Indian TJinta Tribe, T. B. Clarke, New York of Buffalo Hunt, Shooting the Arrow (1880); Cloverdale California, Moonlight, Indian Fisherman (1882); "Cool wooded shades, abode of stately deer," Bannock Wigwam in Peaceful Vale (1883). BLANC, LOUIS AMMY, born in Berlin, Aug. 9, 1810, died in Dusseldorf, April 7, 1885. Genre and portrait painter ; pupil, from 1829, of the Berlin Academy, and from 1833, under Hdbner, of the Dussel- dorf Academy ; painted at first subjects Holofernes, My Lieutenant (1879); Clovis's Triumph (1881); The Tiber (1885). BLANCHARD, EDOUARD THEO- PHILE, born in Paris, April 18, 1844, died there, Oct. 24, 1879. Genre, history, and por- Portfolio trait painter ; pupil of Picot and of Cabanel ; was third in 1866 for the grand prix de Rome, second in 1867, and won it in 1868. Medals : 2d class, 1872 ; 1st class, 1874. Girl Works: Panel for a Dining-Room (1867); Story Death of Astyanax (1868), painted with from mediueval romance, then portraits in Hanover in 1840-42, and in Darmstadt in 1846-47 ; visited England and France in 1857. Works: Praying Woman, The Regnault and Clairin ; The Courtesan (1872); Hylas entrapped by the Nymphs (1874); Cortegiana (1875); LeLutriu (1876); Fraucesca da Rimini (1880). Kunst- Chronik, xv. 107. BLANCHARD, (HENRI PETROS LE- ON) PHARAMOND, bom at La Guillotiere (Rhone), Feb. 27, 1805, died in Paris, Dec. 19, 1873. History and landscape painter ; pu- pil in Paris of Chasselat and Gros ; travelled in Spain (1833), Africa, Mexico (1838), Ger- many, France, and Russia (1856), and exhib- ited at the Salon almost every year after 1833. Medal, 3d class, 1836 ; L. of Honour, 1840. Works : Disarmament of Vera Cruz Church-Goer (1835) ; Goldsmith's Daughter j (1840), Versailles Museum ; Balboa discover- (1836) ; Marguerite in Church (1838); Girls ing South Sea (1855), bought by State ; Val- fishing (1838), National Gallery, Berlin ; ley of Jehoshaphat ; March of Division of Susanna at the Bath, Otto the Shot, Mar- French Army on Mexico (1865), bought by guerite at Martha's, Italian Shepherd-Boy, Girl fallen Asleep, Expectation, Red Riding- Hood. Meyer, Conv. Lex., iii. 539 ; Muller, 54. BLANC, PAUL JOSEPH, born at Mont- martre (Paris), Jan. 25, 1846. Genre -Ottley ; Vapereau Ministry of Fine Arts.- (1865), 202. BLANCHARD, JACQUES, born in Paris, Oct. 1, 1600, died there in 1638. Pupil of his uncle J6r6me Bolley ; went to Lyons in 1620, and spent four years in studying with IK!