BEDAFF fessor at Bruges Academy. Works: Last Moments of Mozart ; Holy Family, Acad- emy, Bruges ; Martyrdom of St. Philemon, St. John's Hospital, ib. Biog. nat. de Bel- gique, ii. 76. BEDAFF, ANTONIS VAN, born at Ant- werp, Dec. 25, 1787, died at Brussels in 1829. History and portrait painter, pupil of the Central School at Antwerp, but formed him- self principally by study of the Dutch mas- ters of the 17th century ; for a long time professor and director of the school of de- sign at Bois-le-Duc ; settled afterwards at Brussels. Works: First Meeting of the Estates General at Dordrecht in 1572, Last Interview of William of Orange with Eg- mont, Confederation of the Nobles, National Museum, Amsterdam. Biog. uat. de Bel- gique, ii. 76. BEDOLO, GIROLAMO. See Mazzola,' Girolamo. BEECHEY, Sir WILLIAM, born at Burford, Oxfordshire, Dec. 12, 1753, died at Hampstead, Jan. 28, 1839. Admitted a student of the Eoyal Academy, London, in 1772, and after painting portraits and pict- ures in Hogarth's manner several years in Norwich returned to London, where he long enjoyed uninterrupted favour with the fash- ionable world. In 1793 he painted a por- trait of Queen Charlotte and was appointed by her royal portrait painter, and became an A.R.A. In 1798 he painted the large equestrian picture, now at Hampton Court, of George III. at a Review in Hyde Park, and in the same year became R.A. and was knighted. He is said to have exhibited 362 portraits at the Academy. As examples of his style may be cited his own portrait, and those of Sir F. Bourgeris, George Rose, and Mrs. Siddous, in the National Portrait Gal- lery, the portrait of Joseph Nollekens in the National Academy, that of George TTT. in the Waterloo Chapel, Windsor, and that of Mr. Coffin in the possession of his descend- ant, Miss Robbius, in Boston, Mass. He was successful in likenesses, but his women are wanting in grace and his men in char- j acter. Cat. Nat. Port. Gal; Redgrave; F. de Conches, 327 ; Ch. Blanc, ficole anglaise ; Art Union Journal (1839); Meyer, iii. 277 ; Sandby, i. 311. BEELT, CORXELIS, second half of 17th century. Dutch school ; landscape and genre painter in the manner of Claes Molenaer, and Helmont, the elder. Works : Interior of Weaver's Room, Ferdinandeum, . Innsbruck ; do., and Coast View, Mannheim Gallery ; Strand of Schevoningen, P. von Semenoff, St. Petersburg. Meyer, Kdnst. Lex., iiL 281. BEER, WILHELM (AMANDUS), Ixmi in Frankfort, Aug. 9, 1837. Genre painter, pupil of his great-uncle, the landscape painter Radl, then studied history painting in Stadel Institute under Steinle. Having visited the Bavarian Alps, he took up genre painting, especially peasant life. After re- peated sojourns in Russia he returned to Frankfort in 1870. Works : Thomas of Bo- logna visiting Albrecht Dllrer ; St. Cecilia ; The Meistersiugei-8 ; Banquet at a Nurem- berg Patrician's ; Arrival of Church Bell in Bavarian Village ; Return of the Best Shot ; Turkish Prisoners in Russian Town ; Peas- ants' Festival on St. Nicholas Day ; Russian Gipsy Camp ; On the River-B.inks of a Rus- sian Town ; First Turkish Prisoners in Do- rogobush. Exhibited at Munich (1883): Fair in Slednova, Horse Market in Russian Village, Gipsies in a Ravine. Mailer, 36. BEERNAERT, EUPHROSINE, born at Osteiul, Belgium, April 11, 1831. Land- scape painter ; pupil, in Brussels, of P. L. Kuhnen ; travelled in Germany, France, and Italy. Medals in Vienna (1873), Brus- sels (1875), Philadelphia (1H7C), Sidney (1879), Melbourne (1880); Order of Leopold (1881). Paints chiefly Dutch views. Works: The Brook (1867); Old Oaks, lasiere de bois dans les dunes (1878); Village of Dom- burg (1878); Wood at Oost-Kapel (1878). Meyer, Kiiusi Lex., iii. 28G. BEERS, JAN VAN, born in Belgium; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter ; studio in Antwerp. Works : Long Live the 181
