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BRASEN Paris, Feb. 27, 18G7. French school ; laud- scape and animal painter, pupil of Richard and of Hersent. Won the second grand prize for historic landscape in 1825, and went to Rome, where he resided six years. He was the first to revive the painting of animals, which had fallen into discredit. Medals : 2d class in 1827 ; 1st class in 1831 and 1837 ; L. of Honour, 1837. Mem- ber of Institute, 1846. "Works : Meleager Hunting (1825); Mercury and Argus, Ital- ian Views (1827); View of Cassano, Temple of Venus at Baise, Castel Rouge, Landscape with Animals, Study of a Dog (1831); Cow attacked by Wolves and defended by Bulls, Bulls Fighting, Nantes Museum ; Animals Resting (1837) ; The Bull (1842); Landscape with Animals (1845), Louvre ; Death of the Boar of Calydon, two land- scapes with animals, Bordeaux Museum ; A Pasture, Montpellier Museum ; A Sorceress, Toulouse Museum ; Study of Horse, B. Wall, Providence. Larousse ; Kunst-Chro- uik, ii. 202. BRASEN, HANS OLE, born at Hillerd, Denmark, Jan. 16, 1849. Genre painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy ; visited North Italy in 1874, Tyrol and Paris in 1879. Works : Geese driven Home (1875); Washing Place at Snip (1875); On Way to Market, Scenes near Lago di Garda (1877) ; Hussars watering Horses, Mare with Colt (1879); Domestic Happiness (1880) ; Court- ing (1881). Sigurd Mailer, 47. BRAUN, ADAM, born in Vienna in 1750, died there in 1827. German school ; genre and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Acad- emy at the age of twelve ; member in 1789. Highly esteemed as a restorer of old paintings. Works : Gentleman threading Needle for Lady (1785), Museum, Vienna ; Lady resting on Sofa, Liechtenstein Gal- lery, ib. Wurzbach, ii. 118. BRAUN, AUGUSTIN, bom in Cologne, about 1570, died there after 1627. German school ; history and portrait painter. Works : Martyrdom of St. Febronia, Wallraf Mu- seum ; Seven Scenes from the Passion, St. George's Church, Seven Scenes from Life of St. Martin, St. Mary's Church, Cologne. Allgem. d. Biog. iii. 264 ; Merlo, Nachrich- ten, 58. BRAUN, LUDWIG, born at Schwabisch Hall, Wiirtemberg, Sept. 23, 1836. Battle painter ; brother of Reinhold B., pupil of Stuttgart Art School ; studied then in Mu- nich and Paris. Painted in Nuremberg a cycle from the family history of the Counts of Huuoldsteiu; visited in 1866 and 1870-71 the battle-fields of those years, and executed for the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg sev- eral pictures. Studio in Munich. Works: Series of water-colour scenes from war in Schleswig-Holstein, Tournament at Nurem- berg in 1496, Scenes from Campaign of 1866, Suabian Kirmess (1869), Episode from Battle of Worth, Capitulation of Se- dan, Entry of the Mecklenburgers into Or- leans, The Germans at Versailles, Entry into Paris, Panorama of Battle of Sedan (1880). Mttller, 74 ; Elustr. Zeitg. (1870), i. 343. BRAUN, REINHOLD, born at HaU, Wiir- temberg, April 25, 1821, died in Munich, Jan. 22, 1884. Military genre painter ; pupil of Stuttgart Art School from 1836, then of Munich Academy in 1843-50 ; took part in the campaign of 1849 in Baden, at the headquarters of the Prince of Prussia. Works : Pasture and Market Scenes, Rural Festivals, Horses, Manoeuvre Scenes, Sua- biau Costumes, etc. Mailer, 75. BRAUSEWETTER, OTTO, born at Saal- feld, Prussia, in 1835. History and genre painter ; pupil of Konigsberg Academy ; travelled in Germany, North Italy, and Rus- sia. Works: Richard HI. (1860), Dantzic Museum ; Charon's Bark (1867) ; Ladies at a Sculptor's (1868), Konigsberg Museum ; Marauders, Bluebeard (1871); After a Long Separation (1872); Autumn Morning (1874); Gustavus Adolphus before Battle of Ltttzen (1876) ; Lansquenets Travelling (1877) ; Home Again (1878). Miiller, 75. BRAUWER. See Brouwer. BRAY, JAN DE, born at Haarlem, died there, buried Dec. 4, 1697. Dutch school ; 198