PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
BELLINIANO, Vittore, who is considered to
be identical with Bellini Bellini and Vittore di
Matteo, was a native of Venice, and, according to
Ridolfi, flourished about the year 1526. He painted
historical subjects, and several of his pictures are
in the Confraternity of St. Mark at Venice, and in
the churches of the neiEjhbouring towns.
BELLIVERT. See Bilivert.
BELLOC, Jean Hilaire, who was born at Nantes in 1786, studied under Regnault and Gros, in Paris, and at first painted historical subjects ; but he abandoned these for portraiture, in which branch of art he admirably succeeded. His por- traits include those of the Duchess ot Berri and other noted persons. He became Director of the Free School of Design in Paris, where he died in 1806.
BELLOTTI, PlEiRO, was bom at Bolzano, in 1625. He was a scholar of Girolamo Ferrabosco, under whom he became an excellent colourist. He painted some historical subjects ; but was more employed in portraits, in which he was very suc- cessful. He was a good copyist of other painters. He died at Venice, in 1700.
BELLOTTO, Bernardo, who was bom at Venice, in 1724 or 1720, was the nephew of Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, the celebrated painter of the views in Venice, whose name he adopted, and by whom he was instructed in art. In imitation of his uncle, he also painted architectural and perspective views, in a very picturesque and spirited manner. He resided in Italy, in Germany — especially in Dresden — and in Poland. He died at Warsaw in 1780. The following are some of his best works : Berlin. Gallery. Cassel. Gallery. Darmstadt. Gallery. Dresden. Gallery. Two Views in Pirna {from the Sutrmondt Coll.). Views in Venice. Venetian scene ; and others. Views of Dresden. Views of Pirna. Views in Poland. Views in Italy. (In all thirty-eight aorks.) Landscapes. View of Munich. View of tlje Rialto, Venice. Views of Turin. View in Pima. Milan. Brera. Munich. Finakothek. Petrsbrg. Hermitage. Turin. Pinacoteca. Vienna. Liechtenstein G He has etched, from his own designs, several views in Dresden, Warsaw, and Vienna, and other subjects, as follow : A set of six Landscapes and Views. A set of twelve architectural Buins. Fifteen Views in Dresden. Eight Views in the environs of Dresden. Three Views in Warsaw.
BELLUCCI, Anionic. See Belucci.
BELLUNELLO. See Bertholotti, Andrea di.
BELLY, Jacques, a French painter and en- graver, was a native of Chartres ; he was born in 1609, and died at Chartres in 1674. He was a pupil of Simon Vouet, and resided for many years in Rome, where he executed his best known work, 'La Gallerie du Palais Farnaise de la ville de Rome,' a series of engravings after the frescoes of Annibale and Agostino Carracci, published in 1641. ^
BELLY, LfioN Adguste Adolphe, a French land- scape painter, was bom at St. Omer, in 1827. He studied under Troyon and Rousseau. He spent much of the latter part of his life in the East, which furnished him with many subjects. He died in 1877. His best works are :
Twilight in November. Fishers at Equilles. The Desert of Nassoub. 1S57. The Plain of Djyseh. Pilgrims going to Mecca. 1861. (In the Luxemlxmrg Gallery.) The Banks of the Nile. Approach to an Egyptian Village. The Dead Sea. 1866. The Nile — near Rosetta. Montauban in Sologne. 1877. {In the Luxembourg Gallery.)
BELMONTE r VACAS, Mariano. This land- scape painter was a native of Cordova, and a pro- fessor of Fine Arts at Cadiz and at Valencia. He exhibited his works in the Spanish Exhibitions in 1858, 1860, and 1862, and obtained several prizes. He died at Valencia in 1864. Among his best paintings are :
A view of the Casa de Campo at Madrid. The Cavern of Palomas at Valencia.
BELSKY, Alexei, a pupil of Girolamo Bon, worked in the second half of the 18th century. In the Hermitage at St. Petersburg there is an archi- tectural piece by him, signed and dated 1789.
BELTRAFFIO, Giovanni Antonio, (or Bol-TRAFFio,) a nobleman who was born at Milan in 1467, and studied art under Leonardo da Vinci ; but he painted only as an amateur. He died at Milan in 1516. Of his works, which are rather scarce, the following may be mentioned : Bellaggio. Fnzzoni C. Madonna and Child. Berlin. Gallery. St. Barbara.
London. Nat. Gall. Madonna and Child. Milan. Poldi Coll. Madonna and Child. Naples. 3Iuseuni. Infant Christ and St. John (after Leonardo da I'inci). Paris. Louvre. A Virgin and Child, adored by the Casio Family (once in the church of the Mitericordia, at Bologna).
BELTRANO, Agostino, and his wife, Aniella (called Aniella Beltrano-Rosa and Anna di Rosa), were Neapolitan painters and scholars of Massimo Stanzione, of whom Aniella was the niece. They are mentioned together, as they painted alike, and jointly prepared many pictures which their master afterwards finished. They were both painters of no common merit, as is shown by many altar- pieces and cabinet pictures in oil. Some, however, belong to Aniella alone, and are highly extolled ; her uncle is suspected of having had a consider- able share in them, as Guido had in those of Gentileschi. She was murdered by her husband in a fit of jealousy, in the year 1649, at the age of 36 : he survived until the year 1665.
BELUCCI, Antonio, (or Bellucci,) who was bom at Soligo, near Venice, in 1654, was a scholar of Domenico Difinico, and according to Orlandi painted several altar-pieces for the churches at Venice and Verona. He painted in Vienna, fur Charles VI. ; at the court of the Elector Palatine ; and in London, at Buckingham House and else- where. He returned to his native country, and died at Soligo in 1726. La the church of the Ascension at Venice, is a fine picture by him of the ' Nativity.' In the Munich Gallery are a ' Psyche and the sleeping Cupid,' and a ' Venus and Cupid, riding on the waves ; ' and in the Dresden Gallery are a 'Venus, attended hy Cupid, feeding a dove,'
and a ' Madonna and Child.' Several of the land-
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