BEEESTEAATEN Gueux ! (1874) ; Jacob van Maerlandt (1875); Trial for Witchcraft (1876); Faust and Mephistopheles, Black in Black, Evening Fancy, Page of 17tli century (1877); Peo- ple's Gratitude (1877); L'Enfant au Tarin (1878); Triptych with Death of Jacob Van Maerlandt (1879); Summer Evening (1880); Entombment (1883), Church of Krolingen. Meyer, Kunst. Lex., iii. 287 ; Kunst- Chronik, xiii. 274, 707 ; xiv. 721. BEEESTBAATEN, A., second half of 17th century. Dutch school ; landscape painter ; flourished probably at Amsterdam ; identi- fied, by Havard, with Jan B., but wrongly so, as the following works are all signed and well authenticated as his : Great Win- ter Landscape, Amsterdam Museum ; Fro- zen Biver with Skaters, Berlin Museum ; Winter Landscape (1664), Copenhagen Gallery. Several in private galleries. Havard, A. & A., iii. 1 ; Meyer, Gemiilde kongl. Mus., 30 ; Eepertorium, iii. 442 ; iv. 300. BEEBSTEAATEN, JAN, born in Am- sterdam, baptized May 31, 1622, died there in 1G87. Dutch school ; landscape and ma- rine painter. His favourite subjects were winter scenes, with groups of small figures, painted with great harmony of colour, and fine contrasts of light and shade. Lingel- bach usually supplied the figures in his ma- rine pieces. Works : Ancient Port of Genoa, Louvre ; Euins of old Town Hall (1652), City Interior in AVinter, Sea Battle (1666), Two Winter Views of Amsterdam, Winter Landscape, Museum, Amsterdam ; St. Olof 's Chapel, Six Collection, ib.; Winter View of old Town Hall at Amsterdam, An Italian Seaport, Eotterdam Museum ; View of Dutch Church, Haarlem Gate at Amster- dam, Copenhagen Museum ; Winter View of Dutch Town, Berlin Museum ; Eocky Coast with Vessels, Storm near Coast, Dresden Gallery. Havard, A. & A., holl., iii. 1 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 287. BEEST, ALBEET VAN, born at Eotter- dam, June 11, 1820, died in New York, Oct. 8, 1860. Marine painter, self-taught ; ac- companied, when quite young, Prince Henry of the Netherlands on a three years' journey to the East, went in 1845 to America, where he lived mostly in Boston and New York and acquired considerable reputation. William Bradford and B. Swain Gifford were his pupils. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 289. BEEST, SYBEAND VAN, flourished at The Hague in 1635-71. Dutch school ; land- scape and genre painter, apparently influ- enced by Jan van Goyen. Works : Parade on Coast of Scheveningen (1643), Municipal Museum, Hague ; Market Scene, Eotterdam Museum ; Vegetable Market (attributed to S.Bles), Stuttgart Gallery; do., (1635), Liech- tenstein Gallery, Vienna ; Pig Market (1668), Peasant's Boom (attributed to I. van Ostade), Stockholm Museum. Archief v. Nederl. K., iv. 117, 129 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 289. BEGA, COENELIS PIETEESZ, born in Haarlem, bap- tized Nov. 15, 1620,diedthere, Aug. 27, 1664. Dutch school ; genre painter, one of the best pupils of Adrian van Ostade, though by no meanshis equal. Works : Peas- ants' Concert, Scholar in his Study, Amster- dam Museum ; Saying Grace, Van der Hoop Museum, ib. ; Company of Smokers, Lille Museum ; Eustic Interior (1662), Louvre, Paris ; Two Ballad Singers, Alchymist in his Laboratory, Cassel Gallery ; Three (two dated 1663), Stadel Gallery, Frankfort; Den- tist, Moltke Gallery, Copenhagen; Musical Couple, Stockholm Museum; Tippling Scene, last
