Benvenuto Cellini, King William at Königgrätz (1867).—Allgem. d. Biogr., ii. 719; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 56.
BLONDEEL, LANCELOT, born at
Bruges, in 1495, died there, March 4, 1561.
Flemish school; was a journeyman mason
before becoming a painter, and adopted
the trowel as his mark; received into guild
of St. Luke in 1530. He was an accomplished
architect, and his pictures are noted
for their rich architectural backgrounds,
often in Renaissance style, executed on
gold ground. His figures, chiefly in the
Italian style, are often well set in action
and finished, but mannered and of cold
flesh tones. Among his works are: Martyrdom
of SS. Cosmo and Damian (1523),
S. Jacques, Bruges;
Madonna with SS.
Luke and Eligius
(1545), Cathedral, ib.;
St. Luke painting the
Virgin (1545), Academy, ib.; St. Peter, Brussels
Museum.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii.
525; Michiels, v. 48.
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BLOOMER, H. REYNOLDS, born in New York; contemporary. Landscape painter; pupil in Paris of Pelouse. Works: El Dorado (1876); After the Shower, Landscape (1877); Old Bridge at Grez, Waterfall near Cernay-la-Ville (1878).
BLUE BOY, Thomas Gainsborough, Grosvenor
House, London; canvas, H. 5 ft. 9 in.
× 4 ft. Portrait of a youth, full length,
standing in a landscape, clad in a blue satin
Van Dyck dress. Painted, it is said, in
1779, as a practical refutation of Reynolds's
theory that the cold colours, of which blue
is the chief, cannot be used effectively in
portrait painting. Engraved by R. Graves
(1868); etched by C. Waltner (1880), P.
Rajon (1881). History obscure. Another
Blue Boy, owned in 1873 by J. Sewell, London,
seems to have some claims to being the
original picture, though some think it a
copy by Gainsborough Dupont. A third,
smaller, is owned by Mrs. Freake.—Fulcher,
113, 202; Redgrave, Century, i. 165; Waagen,
Art Treasures, ii. 173; Brock-Arnold,
42, 60; Notes and Queries, 4th S., xi. 485,
505; Eng. Painters of Georgian Era, 14.
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Blue Boy, Gainsborough, Grosvenor House, London.
BLUM, ROBERT, born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, in 1857. First exhibited in New
York in 1879; studied and painted in Italy,
and Spain in 1880. Member of Society
of American Artists. Studio in New York.
Works: Toledo Water-Carriers, T. B.
Clarke, New York; Going and Coming
(1881); Bright Day at Venice (1882).
BOAR HUNT, Velasquez, National Gallery,
London; canvas, H. 6 ft. 2 in. × 10 ft.
3 in. Philip IV. and his courtiers hunting
wild boars in an arena enclosed by canvas
walls, in the Pardo, a royal hunting seat two
leagues from Madrid; the King, with Olivares
near him on a bay horse; the Cardinal
Infant, Don Fernando, on a white horse;
Juan Mateos, royal huntsman, an old man
on a white horse with long mane; spectators
on foot and in carriages. Queen Isabel
among the spectators in second carriage.
