Catherine, Palazzo Doria, Rome; Holy Family, Pitti, Florence. Beccafumi designed the best compositions which decorate the pavement of the Duomo, Siena. Seven of his cartoons for this work are preserved in the Academy.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 254; Vasari, ed. Mil. v. 633; Gaye, Carteggio, ii. 244, 355; Jansen, Leben und Werke des Malers Gio. Ant. Bazzi, Stuttgart (1870), 117; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 254; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 408.
BECCARUZZI, FRANCESCO, born at
Conegliano, flourished in 1527-1544. Venetian
school; probably pupil of Pordenone,
but in his pictures a successful imitator of
Titian, though he shows in some respects, especially
in his sketchy treatment, the decline
of the Venetian school. Painted mostly
altarpieces for churches in Conegliano and
Treviso. Works: St. Francis with six other
Saints, Venice Academy.—Meyer, Künst.
Lex., iii. 259; Ridolfi, Marav., i. 207; C.
& C., Italy, ii. 166.
BECERRA, GASPAR, born at Baeza about
1520, died in Madrid in 1570. Spanish
school. Passed many years at Rome, studying
painting, sculpture, and architecture;
aided Daniele da Volterra in the embellishment
of the Rovere Chapel in Trinità de'
Monti, where he painted a Nativity of the
Virgin, and Giorgio Vasari, who calls him
Bizzera, in the frescos of the Cancellaria in
the palace of Cardinal Farnese. Returned
to Spain in 1556, became sculptor to Philip
II. in 1562 and one of his painters in ordinary
in 1563. He executed frescos in the
Alcazar of Madrid and many altarpieces,
few of which have survived, but devoted
most of his time to sculpture. A Sybil attributed
to him is in the Hermitage, St.
Petersburg, and a Magdalen in the Museo
de Fomento, Madrid.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vi.
229, vii. 60, 681; Stirling, i. 241; Ch. Blanc,
École espagnole; Cean Bermudez; Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 260.
BECKENKAMP, KASPAR BENEDIKT,
born at Ehrenbreitstein, near Coblentz,
Feb. 5, 1747, died at Cologne, April 1,
1828. German school; history, landscape,
and portrait painter, pupil of his father
and of Januarius Zick, at Coblentz, where
he found a patron in Clemens Wenceslaus,
Elector of Treves, and painted many
princely personages; settled at Cologne in
1795 and devoted himself chiefly to the
reproduction of paintings by the Old German
masters.—Merlo, Nachrichten, 28.
BECKER, ADOLF VON, born in Finland,
Aug. 14, 1831. Genre painter; pupil
of Copenhagen Academy in 1856-58;
studied then in Düsseldorf, and from 1860
at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and
under Couture, Cogniet, Hébert, Barrias,
and Courbet. Went to Spain, in 1863,
and to Italy, in 1866. In 1869 he was
appointed professor of drawing at Helsingfors
University. Works: Boy with Kite,
French Judge (1863); Painter and Model
(1867); Motherly Pride (1868); Gamblers
(1869); After Dinner, A Game of Piquet,
Sick Woman (1878).—Meyer, Künst. Lex.,
iii. 270.
BECKER, ALBERT, born in Berlin,
Oct. 22, 1830. Genre and animal painter,
pupil of Berlin Academy from 1848 under
Klöber, and long his assistant in fresco
painting. After a year in Paris (1860), he
devoted himself to the representation of domestic
animals, from his skill as a cattle
painter was surnamed Cow-Becker. Works:
Blind Man's Buff, Village Scene, By the
Roadside in Spring, At the Brook, Unbidden
Guests, Before the Parsonage, Halt
at Forester's House, Before and After the
Christening.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 270;
Müller, 35.
BECKER, AUGUST, born in Darmstadt
in 1822. Landscape painter, pupil in
Darmstadt of Schilbach, then at Düsseldorf
Academy. In 1844 he visited Norway,
Switzerland, and Tyrol, afterwards the
Scotch Highlands, and was repeatedly
called to Balmoral to instruct the English
princesses in drawing and landscape painting.
Works: Alpenglühen (1846); the Hu-
