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Bakhuyzen
Julius Jacobus van de Sande Bakhuyzen (June, 18, 1835 - October, 21, 1925) - a Dutch artist, of the Hague school, most famous for his landscapes. He studied under the tutorship of his father, Dutch painter Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1795 - 1860)...

Barred
Barred - an adjective used to describe something that is closed or something where entrance is restricted by grate. Also it has the meaning of being decorated with small stripes.

Belgium
Belgium is a country in Northwestern Europe, a constitutional monarchy with the capital in Brussels. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its and NATO's headquarters. Area of the country is about 30 thousand ...

Bernier
George Bernier (1862 - 1918) - a Belgian painter. He studied under van Alphen in Brussels. He is famous for his landscapes and - much more - for his depiction of animals; he even finished the veterinarian school in order to get the knowledge of anatomy of animals. Among his works are: "Landscape with cows", "Red Path: Steeple-chaser".

Betsy Tersteeg
Betsy Tersteeg - a small daughter of Mr. Teersteg, then head of the the Hague Goupil&Cie office. Van gogh created about 40 sketches for her and later on they were published as 3 separate books.

Bishop
Bishop - is a priest of the highest authority. In modern Christianity, an individual having the highest - third - rank of priesthood. In all the major Christian confessions, except Protestantism, it is claimed ...

Blissful
Blissful - ecstatically full with joy and happiness.

Blues
Blues - a state of mind or mood close to sadness or depression, often without any particular reason.

Boarding-house
Boarding-house - kind of private hotel, a house usually ran by a family where one can get an accomodation for any period of time. Usually, meals are included in the rental price paid by boarding-houses' customers.

Bodmer
Karl Bodmer (February, 6, 1809 – October, 30, 1893) - a Swiss painter who is most famous for his paintings depicting American West which he made while travelling down the Missouri River with German explorer M. zu Wied-Neuwied...

Boldini
Giovanni Giusto Boldini (December, 31, 1842, Ferrara - 11, July, 1931, Paris) - an Italian artist, of Parisian school, most famous for his genre and portrait paintings. He studied in Florence and experienced there great influence of Macchiaioli group (G. Fattori, S. Lega, T. Signorini, etc.)...

Bonington
Richard Parkes Bonington (October, 25, 1802 - September, 23, 1828) - an English painter, engraver, illustrator of Romanticism movement mainly famous for his landscapes. He studied under the tutorship of François Louis Thomas Francia. Among his works are: "Normandy" (1823), "View of the Lagoon Near Venice" (1827).

Bosom-friend
Bosom-friend - a person, whom one can share all his most intimate feelings and troubles with; the closest friend.

Boudin
Eugene Boudin (July, 12, 1824 – August, 8, 1898) - a French painter, one of the first landscape artists in France to paint outdoors. After abandoning commercial career at the age of 22 started painting full-time and became hugely popular and acclaimed...

Boughton
George Henry Boughton (1834 Norwich - January 19, 1905 London) was an Anglo-American artist. He was born in Norwich, England, spent his childhood in Albany, New York, USA, studied art in Paris under Edouard Frere and Edouard May and based ...

Bourguereau
William Bourguereau (1825-1905) - a French painter who is famous for such painting as "The Heart's Awakening", "Cupid and Psyche, Children", "Alma Parens" (owned by famous American actor Sylvester Stallone), "Charity".

Boxhill
Boxhill - is a well-known place situated in the North Downs in Surrey county, England. Hill's elevation above the ground equals to 172 metres. Boxhill is located not far from southern suburbs of London...

Brabant
Brabantic (Brabantian) language is a dialect group of the Dutch language, named after historic region of Brabant: its territory is divided today into North Brabant province (the Netherlands) and Antwerp and Flemish Brabant (Belgium)...

Braekeleer
De Braekeleer, Dutch family of artists - Ferdinand de Braekeleer (February, 12, 1792 - May, 16, 1883) and his son Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer (June, 11, 1840–July, 20, 1888)...

Breton
Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton (May, 1, 1827, Courrieres – July, 5, 1906, Paris) - a French painter of Realist movement most famous for his classical depictions of countryside and rural life, he enjoyed an enormous popularity at the end of the 19th century on both sides of the Atlantic...

Brion
Gustave Brion (October, 24, 1824, Rothau - November, 5, 1877, Paris) - a French painter and illustrator of Realist movement highly acclaimed for his genre paintings. He studied under the tutorship of Strasbourg-based painter Gabriel-Christophe Gurin (1790-1846)...

Brussels
Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Dutch: Brussel) is the capital of Belgium and the largest part of the Brussels-Capital Region, the unofficial capital of the European Union. Population of City of Brussels itself is amounted to about 145 000 people ...

Buckwheat
Buckwheat - a feed crop, small black seeds used for feeding animal. It is also possible to make flour of it and use it for human consumption.

Bumpy
Bumpy - (of a road) not very comfortable road to ride on, with numerous hillocks and pitfalls.

Burger
William Burger - pseudonume of Theophile Thore (1807, La Fleche - 1869, Paris) - prominent art critic and scholar of 19th century, he was instrumental for Impressionist movement development. Book van Gogh is speaking about is called "Museums of Holland", it was finished in 1860.

Burin
Burin - a hardened steel stick of a rhombic shape used by engravers in their work.

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