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DUBOIS, FRANÇOIS, born in Paris, May 11, 1790, died there, Feb. 8, 1871. History painter, pupil of Regnault and of the École des Beaux Arts; won the 2d grand prix in 1817, and the 1st grand prix in 1819. He was a careful painter in a style now out of fashion, but he received many orders for pictures from the Government in his day. Medal, 1st class, 1831. Works: Themistocles with Admetus (1819); Clovis when a Child found by a Fisherman (1822), St. Louis landing at Damietta (1827), Amiens Museum; Marguerite d'Anjou taken by Brigands (1833), Angers Museum; St. Luke releasing the Prisoners (1827), St. Leu, Paris; Death of Manlius, Young Woman of Albano (1831); Distribution of Colours to the National Guard (1831), Coronation of Pepin the Short (1838), two portraits of French Marshals, Versailles Museum; The Annunciation, Notre Dame de Lorette; Baptism of Clovis, The Ascension of Christ (1859), ordered by the State.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 454; Larousse.


DUBOIS, GUILLAM, died in Haarlem, buried July 7, 1680. Dutch school; landscape painter, whose manner is a mixture of that of Ruysdael and Everdingen. Master of the guild at Haarlem in 1646. His journey through the Rhine provinces with Vincent Laurensz van der Vienne, in 1652-53, gave him subjects for numerous pictures. Works: Mountain Landscape, Berlin Museum; another, Czernin Gallery, Vienna; another, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Village on Seashore, Baron Speck von Sternburg, Lütschena, near Leipsic; View on Rhine, Dulwich Gallery.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 481.


DUBOIS, LOUIS, born in Brussels in 1830, died there, April 28, 1880. Genre, landscape, and animal painter, among the most prominent followers of Courbet, though not his pupil, and the foremost representative of the realistic school in Belgium. Works strongly resemble those of Jacob Jordaens. Works: Trinitarian Monk, Priest preparing for Mass (1857); The Storks (186O), Brussels Museum; Roulette, Choir-Boy (1860); Solitude, Landscape with Dead Roe (1863); Rice-Eater (1872); Eva, Healthy Country (1875); Billiard Player, The Scheldt, Landscape (1878); Flemish Interior, The Mill, Autumn in the Ardennes, Cranes and Ducks, Sunset, Sunrise on a Swamp, The Meuse near Dordrecht.—Brockhaus, v. 606; Meyer, Con. Lex., xix. 243.


DUBOULEAU, JEAN AUGUSTE, called Dubouloz, born in Paris, Feb. 20, 1800, died there, Aug. 23, 1870. History painter, pupil of Gros, and of the École des Beaux Arts, where he made eight unsuccessful attempts to win the grand prix. Medals: 3d class, 1838; 2d class, 1840. Works: Louis XI. Hunting, Quentin Durward and Master Pierre, Louis XI.'s Breakfast, Crillon's Piety, the Preacher of Pontoise, The Courage of a Peasant of Pontoise during King John's Captivity, Christ on the Mount of Olives (1824 to 1840); The Temptation, May (1857); The Invasion (1861); The Tempters, The Call to Wake Up, Blind Man's Buff (1863); The Pirates (1864); Vive les Brunes! Vive les Blondes! License destroying Liberty (1865); The Swing, A Rural Offence (1866); Sick Child, Jugglers (1868); Group of Children (1869); Little Bathers (1870); and a number of portraits.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 458; Larousse.


DUBOURCQ, PIERRE LOUIS, born in Amsterdam, April 25, 1815, died there in 1873. Landscape painter, pupil at Hilversum of Jan van Ravenswaay, and at The Hague of Andreas Schelfhout; visited in 1836-37 Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, North Italy, and France, in 1844-45 Italy and Sicily, and in 1846 Holland, England, France, and Germany. Works: View near Orléans; Inundation; Lake Albano; Roman Campagna; View on Isle of Jersey; Cemetery at Baden, National Museum, Amsterdam; View near Rome, Museum Fodor, ib.—Müller, 145.


DUBREUIL, TOUSSAINT, born in Paris in 1561, died there, Nov. 22, 1602. French