BLOEMEN mus Francken at Herenthals ; returned to Utrecht, where, having for some time lived at Amsterdam (citizen there in 1591), he settled again before 1600, and is men- tioned as member and dean of the guild in 1611-28. Treated all branches of painting from religious subjects down to still-life. Works : Ave Maria, Nativity (1612), Male portrait, Louvre, Paris ; Magdalen Repent- ant, Nantes Museum ; Hippomenes crowned in the Arena (1626); Marriage of Peleus (1638), Hague Museum ; Diogenes and the Booster, Eaising of Lazarus (1607), Old Pinakothek, Munich ; St. John preaching, Schleissheim Gallery ; Argus and Mercury (1645), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna ; Mar- tyrdom of St. Andrew (copy after Caravag- gio), Old Man's Head (1635), Dresden Gal- lery ; Joseph's Second Dream, Berlin Muse- um; Nativity, St. John preaching in the Desert, SS. Peter and Paul, Brunswick Gal- lery ; Niobe, Venus and Adonis, Hercules and Omphale, Copenhagen Gallery. His son and pupil, Hendrik, master of the guild at Utrecht about 1630-32, repeatedly its dean, and last mentioned in 1664, imitated at first Italian masters, afterwards Rubens. Works : Paul before Agrippa (1634), Maria van Pallaes (1657), two others, Utrecht Museum; Male por- trait (1641), Brunswick Gallery ; do. (1648 ?), Dresden Gallery. Ch. Blanc, Ecole hollandaise ; Immerzeel, i. 60 ; Kramm, i. 101 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 166, 181 ; De Stuers, 14. BLOEMEN, JAN FRANS VAN, called Orizonte, baptized in Antwerp, May 12, 1662, died in Rome about 1740 (?). Flem- ish school ; landscape painter, brother of Pieter van Bloemen, pupil of Antonius Goubau. Went early to Rome, where he painted Italian views, showing influence of Claude Lorrain and Gaspar Poussin. In- ferior to this master in grandeur of concep- tion, he excelled him in the delicate grada- tion of distance, whence called 1'Orizonte. Ai Among his numerous works are : Six land- scapes, Louvre ; Flight into Egypt, Lille Museum ; Myth of Latona, Berlin Museum ; Landscape, Dresden Museum ; Landscape, Brera, Milan ; three landscapes, Vienna Museum ; Armida, two others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; several in Academy of St. Luke and other galleries, Rome. Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 488 ; Ch. Blanc, cole flamande ; Michiels, x. 334 ; Rooses (Reber), 415. BLOEMEN, NORBERT VAN, called Cephalus, born at Antwerp, in Feb., 1670, died at Amsterdam, in 1746. Flemish
school ; younger brother of Jan ; studied
| in Antwerp and in Rome ; painted scenes in private life and portraits. Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 491. BLOEMEN, PIETER VAN, called Stan- daart, born in Antwerp, baptized Jan. 17, 1657, died there, buried March 6, 1720. Flemish school ; genre, battle, and land- scape painter ; pupil of Simon van Douw, an imitator of Wouwerman ; master of the guild in 1674. Spent some years in Rome, where he was a member of the Academy of Si Luke ; returned to Antwerp and was made director of the Academy there in 1699. Works : Farrier, Copenhagen Gallery ; Land- scapes, Stockholm Museum ; Ruin with Cat- tle (1710), Halt before Inn (1718), three others, Dresden Gallery ; two Italian Landscapes, Vienna Mu- seum ; Training School for Hors- es (1712), Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 492 ; Michiels, x. 331 ; Rooses (Reber), 408. BLOKLAND. See Montfoort. BLOMBERG, HUGO VON, Baron, born in Berlin, Sept. 26, 1820, died in Weimar, June 17, 1871. History and genre painter ; pupil of Berlin Academy under Wach until 1845, then of Leon Cogniet in Paris, in 1847. After performing military duty in 1849, he resumed his studies in Berlin and moved to Weimar in 1867. Works: Dornroschen (1844); Neptune and Amymone (1847); Mediaeval Town, Merchant of Venice (1866); 168
