Adonis, and Cupid. Cassel Gallery; Portrait of F. de Vroude (1643), Berlin Museum; male and female portrait, Old Man in Prayer, Dresden Gallery.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 517; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 300.
BACKEREEL, GILLES, born in Antwerp,
master of the guild in 1629, died after 1652.
Flemish school; history painter, studied in
Rome and then lived mostly at Antwerp.
Works: Vision of St. Felix, Adoration of
the Shepherds, Brussels Museum; Hero
bewailing Leander, Vienna Museum.—Rooses
(Reber), 156.
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BACKHUYSEN (Bakhuizen), LUDOLF,
born at Emden,
Dec. 18,
1631, died at
Amsterdam,
Nov. 17, 1708.
Dutch school;
marine painter,
pupil of Aldert
van Everdingen
and of Hendrick
Dubbels,
but chiefly studied
from nature,
often exposing
himself to great danger to observe
the sea in its various aspects. Also painted
portraits on a small scale. Peter the Great
visited his studio in Amsterdam. Works:
Dutch Shipping (1683), four others, National
Gallery, London; Boats in a Storm (1696),
Dulwich Gallery; Dutch Squadron (1675),
four others, Louvre; Man-of-War, Antwerp
Museum; Port of Amsterdam (1673), Embarkation
of Jan de Witt (1690), Agitated
Sea (1692), The Zuider Zee (1694), two
Marines, Disembarkation of William III.
(1692), Entrance of Dutch Port (1693),
Building Yard of East India Company at
Amsterdam (1696), National Museum, Amsterdam;
Ice Landscape, Marine (1689), two
others, Copenhagen Gallery; Sea Harbour,
Stockholm Museum; Storm at Sea, Portrait
of Himself, several others, Ludwigslust Gallery;
Shipwreck, Portrait of Old Man,
Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Stormy Sea,
Slightly Agitated Sea (1664), Berlin Museum;
Coast View, Bamberg Gallery; View
on the Y (1700), Städel Gallery, Frankfort;
Approaching Storm
at Sea, River Landscape,
Vienna Museum;
Agitated Sea (1669), Palazzo Pitti,
Florence.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise;
Kugler (Crowe), ii. 502; Meyer, Künst.
Lex., ii. 521.
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BACLER D'ALBE, LOUIS ALBERT GUILLAIN, Baron de, born at St. Pol (Pas de Calais), Oct. 21, 1762, died in Sèvres, Sept. 12, 1824. Landscape painter, studied from nature in the Alps of Savoy; entered the army at the outbreak of the revolution and took part in the sieges of Lyons and Toulon; was afterwards director of the topographic corps and brigadier-general under Napoleon. Left the service in 1813. Works: Battle of Lodi; Crossing the Po; Battle of Rivoli; Battle of Arcola; After the Battle of Austerlitz, Versailles Gallery.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 525.
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BACON, HENRY, born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1839. Subject painter; in 1864 visited Paris, where he became a pupil of the École des Beaux Arts and of Cabanel; and in 1866-67 studied under Édouard Frère at Écouen. Studio in Paris. Works: Paying the Scot (1870), W. B. Bement, Philadelphia; Boston Boys and General Gage (1875,) C. R. Rogers, Philadelphia; Franklin at Home (1876), J. B.
