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BELLOC, JEAN HILAIRE, born at Nantes, Nov. 27, 1786, died in Paris, Dec. 9, 1866. Genre and portrait painter; pupil of Regnault and of Gros. Medal of 1st class in 1810, after which exhibited pictures in nearly every salon till 1850. Was director of the free school of design in Paris more than forty years. L. of Honour, 1846, Officer, 1864. Works: Death of Gaul (1810); Traveller in Egypt who has lost his Way (1812); Rest of Holy Family (1831); Death of St. Louis, (1838, ordered by State); Portraits of the Duchess de Berri (1824), Count Boissy d'Anglas (1830), of Michelet (1845), and many others.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 427; Larousse.

BELLOSIO, CARLO, born in Milan in 1805, died at Bellaggia, Sept., 1859. History painter; pupil of Pelagio Palagi. He adhered to the classical style, but showed early a certain power of invention, and after 1829, without deserting his school, strong individual talent. He excelled in fresco, but executed also many drawings and oil paintings. He was overtaken by death when about to execute a colossal painting for King Charles Albert, the Crossing of the Beresina, to prepare studies for which he had made a journey to Russia in 1845. Works: Scene from the Flood (1839-41), Institution of the Order of Annunciata (1842), Royal Palace, Turin; Beheading of St. John, fresco (1830), S. Protaso, Milan; Allegory, Casino della nobile Società, Milan.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 429.

BELLOTTI, PIETRO, born at Volzano in 1627, died at Gangnano in 1700. Venetian school; pupil of Michele Ferrabosco, in Venice, where he went at twenty. He faithfully imitated nature with great minuteness of detail, then very unusual. This, which made him a favourite portrait painter, is observable in his characteristic figures from low life, but in historical scenes he is not free from the mannerism of his time. He was much employed by foreign courts. Works: Half figure of Old Woman, Museo Civico, Venice; Portrait of himself, Uffizi, Florence; Old Woman, Madrid Museum; do., Stuttgart Museum.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 430; Zanetti, Pitt. Venez., 513.

BELLOTTO, BERNARDO, born in Venice, Jan. 30, 1720, died in Warsaw, Oct. 17, 1780. Venetian school; landscape and architecture painter; nephew and pupil of Canaletto, by whose name he is sometimes known; went to Rome, probably about 1740, afterwards to Germany; worked in Munich, and afterwards in Dresden, where he was employed by Count Brühl and became court painter to Augustus III. In 1758 he went to Vienna, and painted views of the city and the imperial palaces until 1762, when he executed paintings for Augustus III. in Warsaw, before returning to Dresden, where he became a member of the Academy in 1764. About 1766 he is said to have visited St. Petersburg, and in 1767 Warsaw, where he was court painter to King Stanislaus II. in 1770. At first an imitator of Canaletto, he developed later an independent style, marked by cool light effects and great clearness in architectural details. Works: Two Views of Turin, Turin Gallery; Views of Varese, Brera, Milan; Views in Vienna and of Schönbrunn and Schlosshof, Ruins of Thebes, Hungary, Vienna Museum; Views of Königstein and Pirna, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; View of Munich (probably also four Views in Venice, ascribed to Antonio Canaletto), Munich Gallery; Views in Dresden and Pirna, Venice, Verona, etc. (38), Dresden Gallery; two landscapes, Berlin Museum; Views in Venice (3), Cassel Gallery; Views of Ducal Palace and Piazzeta in Venice, Darmstadt Gallery; Ducal Palace in Venice (ascribed to Canaletto), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; View of the Brenta, Brussels Museum; two Views of Rome, Amsterdam Museum; Rialto, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 437.