BELLOWS, ALBERT F., born at Milford, Mass.; contemporary. Genre painter; studied in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, and painted in England and Wales. Elected an A. N. A. in 1859, and N. A. in 1861. In 1865 he visited England, where he turned his attention entirely to water colours. In 1868 was elected honorary member of the Royal Belgian Society of Water-Colourists. Studio in New York. Works in oil: Sorrows of Boyhood, First Pair of Boots, City Cousins, Lost Child, Approaching Footsteps, Sunday in Devonshire (1876); New England Village School (1878); Parsonage (1879); Building Air Castles (1880); Bird Song (1881); Near the Head of Tide Water, Country Byway (1882); Godalming—Surrey, England, Hillside (1883). Works in water colour: Notch at Lancaster (1867); Afternoon in Surrey (1868); Borders of the New Forest, Surrey Byway, Dark Entry—Canterbury, Reaper's Child, Study of a Head, New England Homestead, Devonshire Cottage, Autumn Woods, Village School (1878).—Tuckerman, 486; Art Journal (1877), 47.
BELLUCCI, ANTONIO, born at Pieve di
Soligo in 1654, died there in 1726. Venetian
school; pupil of the amateur Domenico
Definico, a nobleman of Sebenico, and
formed himself afterwards after Sebastiano
Bombelli and Antonio Zanchi. He worked
in Treviso, Venice, Vicenza, and Verona, and
in 1709 was called to Vienna by Joseph I.,
who made him court painter. He painted
the Emperor's portrait, and was employed
also under Charles VI., but especially by
Prince Liechtenstein, whose palace he decorated.
From Vienna he was summoned to
Düsseldorf, by the elector John William,
after whose death, in 1716, he went to England,
and painted for the court and several
nobles. He seems to have returned to Italy
soon after 1722, and in 1724 was also active
again in Venice. He was one of the most
prominent masters of the Venetian school
before Tiepolo. Works: Marriage Ceremony
of the Elector John William, Danaë,
Augsburg Gallery; Lot and Daughters,
Solomon sacrificing to the Gods, Schleissheim
Gallery; Rebecca at the Well, Isaac,
Finding of Moses, Pommersfelden Gallery;
Mary and Elizabeth, St. John, Nuremberg
Museum; Cupid and Psyche, Cupid and
Venus, Munich Gallery; Venus feeding a
Dove, Madonna, Dresden Gallery; Rape of
Helen, Rape of the Sabine Women, Cassel
Gallery;
Groups of
Children,
Venus and Cupid, Liechtenstein Gallery,
Vienna.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 433; Nagler,
Mon., i. 1785.
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BELLUCCI, GIUSEPPE, Cavaliere, born in Florence in 1827, died there, Feb. 8, 1882. History painter; pupil of Bezzuoli and of Pollastrini; professor in Florence Academy; Knight of Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus. Works: Hagar, Paul before Poppæa, Death of Alessandro de' Medici (1865), Genoa Museum; Emanuel Philibert arranging an Alliance between Savoy and France against Austria (1870), Royal Collection; Finding of Manfred's Body (1880).—Kunst-Chronik, v. 145.
BELLUNELLO, ANDREA, born at S.
Vito, Friuli, flourished 1460-1490 in Udine
and Friuli. Venetian school. A provincial
master, with whom art in Friuli may be
said to have begun. His altarpieces show
hard outlines, bony figures, and heavy colouring.
Works: Crucifixion (1476), Town
Hall, Udine; Madonna (1488 and 1490).—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 435; C. & C., North
Italy, ii. 176.
BELLY, LÉON ADOLPHE AUGUSTE,
born at Saint-Omer, March 10, 1827, died
in Paris, March 25, 1877. Landscape and
portrait painter; pupil of Troyon and of
T. Rousseau. Travelled in the East, and
was one of the best French painters of Oriental
life and scenery. Medals: 3d class,
1857, 1867; 2d class, 1859; 1st class, 1861;
L. of Honour, 1862. Works: Forest of
Fontainebleau, Shell Fishers of Normandy
(1855); Village of Ghiseh, Desert of Nas-
