BOONEN
BOONEN, AENOLD VAN, born at Dor-
drecht, in 1669, died in 1729. Dutch school;
portrait and genre painter ; pupil of Gott-
fried Schalken, imitating the latter in his
subjects taken by candle-Ught. He painted
life-size portraits at some of the German
courts. His younger brother, Jasper Boon-
en (1677-1729), and his son Kasper Boon-
en, were por-
trait paint-
ers Works: yijrJjOOnUl
Young Wom-
an with Lantern (1695), six others, Dres-
den Gallery ; Anchorite Beading (1695),
Brunswick Gallery. — Gool, i. 294.
BOOTHBY, PENELOPE, Sir Joshua Eeynolds, Earl of Dudley ; canvas. A little girl in a large mob cap, seated out-of-doors. Sometimes called the Mob Cap. Painted in 1788 ; sold in 1851 to B. G. Windus for 290 guineas ; bought at his sale (1859) by Lord Ward for 1100 guineas. Engraved by Thomas Park (1789); T. Kirk ; S. Cous- ins ; lithographed in Portfolio.— Portfolro (1873), 136 ; (1876), 145 ; Athenaeum, Aug., 1874, 185 ; Dec, 1874, 758. _,
BOOTT, ELIZABETfi, born in Cam- bridge, Mass.; contemporary. Figure paint- er ; pupil of W. M. Hunt, of Duveneck, and in Paris of Couture. Studio in Boston. Works: Head of a Tuscan Ox (1876); Old Man Reading (1878); Old Eoman Peasant, Girl with Cat (1879); Almond Blossoms, Still-Life (1882); Pyrus Japonica (1883).
BOEDES, ERNEST DOMINIQUE, born at Pau, France ; contemporary. History and genre painter ; pupil of Bonnat and Cormon. Medal : 3d class, 1884. Works : The Concierge is a Tailor (1881); Malague- na de Seville (1882); Jour des Cuivres, Breton Woman Spinning (1883); Legend of St. Ju- lian the Hospitaller (1884) ; Tide at Cayeux (1885).
BORDONE, PARIS, born in Treviso, in 1500, died in Venice, Jan. 19, 1570. Vene- tian school ; of a noble family ; pupil of Ti- tian, under whom he gave promise early of great ability. Afterward studied the works of Giorgione, whom he imitated rather than Titian. He excelled especially in portraits, his heads being inferior only to those of Titian. His flesh tints are wonderful- ly brilliant, but in taste and quality of touch he was inferior to either Titian or Paolo Veronese. His landscape backgrounds are generally classical and elegant. In 1538 he
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went to Paris, at the invitation of Francis I, or, as some say, in 1559, at that of Francis H., and painted the principal personages of the court. The most important of his works are: The Fisherman presenting the Ring of St. Mark to the Doge, and the Tiburtine Sibyl, Venice Academy ; Baptism of Christ, Brera, Milan ; Altarpiece and Madonna and Saints, Berlin Museum ; Diana, ApoUo, and Marsyas, Dresden Gallery ; Madonna and Saints, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Daphnis and Chloe, National Gallery, London. There
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are portraits by Bordone in the Uffizi and Pitti, Florence ; and in the Lou- vre, Munich, Vienna, and other galleries. — Ch. Blanc, !^cole vfenitienne; Seguier, 23 ; Siret, 119 ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., vii. 82, ix. 143, xiii. 47; Burckhardt, 741; Morelli (Richter), 195 ; Ltlbke, Gesch. ital. Mai., ii. 568.
BORESUM (Borssem, Borssum), ABRA- HAM VAN, flourished about 1600. Dutch school ; landscape and animal painter, in the manner of A. Cuyp and A. van der Neer. Clever painter and able colourist, with a firm touch. Works : Village by Moonlight, Rotterdam Museum ; Pictures
in Van Loon Collection, Amsterdam, and
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