Among Thorns (1863-64); Hay Harvest (1865); Marshes of Ostia (1867); Repose (1868); Aspromonte (1868); Suez Canal, Lion of the Desert, Arrival of Arab Merchants at Ghizeh, Bedouin Tents at Ismailia, View of the Pyramids, The Nile near Elephantiné, Sunset in the Desert (1869); Camel Buyers at Cairo, Rest in a Palm Grove, Rest in the Plain of Sivert, Caravan in the Desert, Sycamores of Upper Egypt.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 498.
BENCI, GINEVRA. See Monaca, La.
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BENCZUR, GYULA (Julius), born at
Nyiregyhaza, Hungary,
Jan. 28, 1844.
History painter; pupil,
from 1861, of Munich
Academy under
Hiltensperger and
Anschütz, then in 1869
of Piloty; travelled in
Austria-Hungary,
Southern Germany,
France, and Upper Italy;
though invited to
Weimar and Prague, preferred to settle at
Munich, where he became instructor in 1875
and professor in 1880 in the Academy; now
director of Pesth Academy. Works: Farewell
of Ladislaus Hunyady (1867), Pesth
Museum; Arrest of Rákóczy in 1701 (Johnston
sale, New York, 1876, $3,750); Scene
from Hamlet (1869); Louis XV. in the
Boudoir of Dubarry; Family of Louis XVI.
during the Assault on Versailles (1872), D.
O. Mills, New York; Baptism of St. Stephen
(1875), Pesth Museum; Ladies resting in the
Woods, The Almsgiver (1877); Bacchante
(1881); Deserted, Hungarian Insurance Convention
in 1857 (1883).—Meyer, Künst. Lex.,
iii. 502; Müller, 40; Kunst-Chronik, iv. 86,
vi. 113, ix. 437, 492, xi. 370, 531, 563, xii.
709; Illustr. Zeitg. (1878), 211; (1881), i. 8.
BENDEL, HANS SIGMUND, born at
Schaffhausen, Oct. 18, 1814, died there,
Nov. 28, 1853. History and genre painter;
pupil in Munich of Kaulbach and Schlotthauer;
visited the Tyrol in 1837 and Italy
in 1838, and took part in the Swiss campaign
of 1847. Best known by his designs
for illustrated works. Works: Four
Scenes from Swiss History (1852-53); Illustrations
to Goethe and Schiller Gallery, to
Hebel's Poems and to Pestalozzi's Lienhard
and Gertrud.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 503.
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BENDEMANN, EDUARD (JULIUS
FRIEDRICH), born
in Berlin, Dec. 3, 1811.
History and portrait
painter; pupil of
Schadow, whom he
followed to Düsseldorf
in 1827 and to
Italy in 1830. After
his return he at once
established his fame
by his Jews in Exile
(1832, Reichartz Gallery,
Cologne); obtained the great gold medal
in Paris, in 1836, and after living for two
years in Berlin was appointed professor at
the Dresden Academy. Between 1840 and
1855, he decorated the throne and ballrooms
at the royal palace in Dresden with
frescos. In 1859-67 he was director of the
Düsseldorf Academy, where (1861-66), as
well as at Naumburg and Berlin, he painted
several monumental works. He is member
of many German Academies, and of the Institut
de France, has had the degree of
Doctor conferred upon him by the philosophical
faculty of the Berlin University,
and is decorated with many medals and
orders. Works: Boaz and Ruth (1830);
Girls at Well (1833); Servian Princesses
(1834); Jeremiah among the Ruins of
Jerusalem (1836), Royal Palace, Hanover;
Harvest (1836); Shepherd and Shepherdess
(1845); Jeremiah at the Fall of Jerusalem
(1872), National Gallery, Berlin; Penelope
(1877), Antwerp Academy; Three Caravan
Scenes (1880); Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1882);
Emperor Lothair, Römer, Frankfurt; Portrait
of Artist's Wife (1847), Portraits of
Heinrich Brockhaus (1851), W. Schadow
(1861), Antwerp Academy; Prince Anton
