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Painted about 1628; formerly in Royal Palace, Madrid; presented by Ferdinand VII. (about 1820) to Sir Henry Wellesley, who sold it (1846) to National Gallery for £2,200. Sketches in possession of Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., and Countess Cowper, London.—C. Bermudez; Curtis, 23; Athenæum (1855), 407 (1856), 1165; Stirling, 1840.

BOBO DE CORIA, Velasquez, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. × 2 ft. 9 in. A jester, in green dress, seated on the floor of a chamber; beside him, two gourds and an earthen cup. Second manner, probably painted between 1631 and 1649. Engraved by L. Croutelle; etched by Laguillermie in Portfolio (1873).—Curtis, 30; Madrazo, 633.

BOCCACCINO, BOCCACCIO, of Cremona, born 1460, died 1518 (?). Lombard school; educated probably by followers of Mantegna at Ferrara, he was already an independent master at Cremona in 1497, and had painted a series of frescos in Sant' Agostino. In 1499 Garofalo, his apprentice, deserted him and went to Rome, and at a later period Boccaccino followed him. Vasari says he painted there a Coronation of the Virgin in Santa Maria in Trastevere, but the public, who had expected great things from one who had criticised Michael Angelo, so ridiculed his work that he returned to Cremona. Between 1506 and 1518 he executed numerous frescos in the Cathedral, Cremona, and also painted important works in Venice, of which the Madonna with Saints in S. Giuliano, and the do. with landscape and Marriage of St. Catherine in the Academy (1511) are good specimens. His compositions are scattered and his perspective sometimes bad, but some of his single figures are good, and his colouring is often rich. Ch. Blanc, who puts little faith in the story of Vasari, says that Boccaccino was one of the best Cremonese painters, and that he played the same rôle there that Mantegna did in Padua and Francia in Bologna.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 441; Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 581; Ch. Blanc, École lombarde; Burckhardt, 611; Rio, iii. 370; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 478.

BOCCACCINO, CAMILLO, of Cremona, born 1515, died Jan. 2, 1546. Lombard school; son of Boccaccio Boccaccino, but excelled him, as he took pains to avoid the faults into which his father's vanity had betrayed him. Lanzi calls him the greatest genius of the Cremonese school. The Raising of Lazarus and the Adulteress before Christ, in Cremona, and the Four Evangelists in S. Sigismondo, near Cremona, are examples of his works.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 583; vi. 493; C. Blanc, École lombarde; Lanzi, ii. 429.

BOCHMANN, GREGOR VON, born at Nehat, Esthland, June 1, 1850. Landscape painter; pupil, from 1868, of the Düsseldorf Academy. Studio since 1871 in Düsseldorf, whence he makes annual study trips to his native country, and to Holland and Belgium. Medals in Berlin, Brussels, and Munich; Order of Leopold. Works: Church in Esthland (1874); Sluice in Holland (1875); Potato Harvest in Esthland (1876); Wharf in Holland (1878), National Gallery, Berlin.—Brockhaus, iii. 220; Müller, 58.

BOCK, HANS, middle of 16th century. German school; fresco painter. His colossal frescos, inside and outside the City Hall of Basle, despite their mannerism, are vigorously treated and have fine landscape backgrounds.—Kugler (Crowe), 271.

BOCKHORST, JAN VAN, surnamed Langen Jan, born at Münster, Westphalia, about 1610, died in Antwerp, April 21, 1668. Flemish school; history and portrait painter; pupil of Jordaens; master in 1633 of the guild in Antwerp, where he had come early in life. His portraits have been compared to those of Van Dyck. Works: David's Repentance, St. Michael's, Ghent; Martyrdom of St. James, St. James's, ib.; Martyrdom of Legion of Thebes, Lille Museum; Coronation of the Virgin, Museum, Antwerp; Triptych with Resurrection, Béguinage, ib.; Finding of the Cross, Augustine ch., ib.;