- dence; Farewell, W. H. Fosdick, Louisville;
Petition to the Doge (1860), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Good Morning, Venetian Lady, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia; Grand-*father's Birthday, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia; Welcome Guests, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn: Petitioning the Doge, C. P. Huntington, New York.—Brockhaus, ii. 670; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 268; Müller, 34; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 91, 125; Land und Meer (1883), ii. 909.
BECKER, LUDWIG HUGO, born at
Wesel, July 19, 1833, died in Düsseldorf,
Dec. 25, 1868. Landscape painter, pupil
at Düsseldorf Academy of Schirmer and
Gude, travelled afterwards in Westphalia,
Switzerland, Normandy, and to the Baltic.
Works: Sacrifice of the Ancient Germans
(1856); Shepherd in the Pasture, Sunday
Morning, Passing Storm, Washerwomen at
the Brook, Village in the Snow, Christmas
Eve, Boys Bathing, Shepherd Boy, On the
Heights (1867); Vintage on the Moselle.—Blanckaris,
32; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 270;
Zeitsch. f. b. K., viii. 275.
BECKER, PETER, born in Frankfort,
Nov. 10, 1828. Landscape and architecture
painter; pupil at Städel Institute, under
Jakob Becker and Hessemer. The banks of
the Rhine have furnished him with subjects
for many landscapes. Member of Société
belge des Aquarellistes. Thirty large views
of old Frankfort (cartoons), Rhine landscapes
in oil and water colours.—Meyer, Künst.
Lex., iii. 269.
BECKERATH, MORITZ VON, born at
Crefeld in 1838. History painter, pupil at
Düsseldorf Academy of Kehren, then from
1859, in Munich, of Schwind. Works:
Death of Duke Ulrich of Würtemberg
(1869), Burial of Alaric, Schack Gallery,
Munich; The Dream, Tragedy by Heine,
Lear and the Fool, Napoleon's Retreat from
Moscow (1866); Götz of Berlichingen with
the Gipsies, Scenes from Crusades, Offering
of the German Crown by Louis II. of Bavaria
(1874).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 272;
Illustr. Zeitg. (1871), ii. 348.
BECKMANN, KARL, born in Berlin,
March 23, 1799, died there, Oct. 2, 1859.
Landscape and architecture painter, pupil of
Wach, visited Paris in 1824 and was in Italy
in 1828-33. Was professor at the Berlin
Academy. Works: Monastery of S. Benedetto
near Subiaco, National Gallery, Berlin.—Jordan,
43.
BECKMANN, KONRAD, born in Hanover,
in 1846. Genre painter, pupil, in
1866-68, of Munich Academy, then of
Piloty; paints humorous subjects. Works:
Tailor reading Newspaper (1868); Best Shot
(1870); Sacrifice of a Village Poet.—Kunst-Chronik,
v. 108, xiv. 142.
BECKMANN, LUDWIG, born in Hanover,
Feb. 21, 1822. Animal painter; studio
in Düsseldorf. His spirited and truthful
boar and bear hunts have been bought
mostly in England.—Brockhaus, ii. 675.
BECKMANN, WILHELM (HERMANN
ROBERT AUGUST), born in Düsseldorf,
Oct. 3, 1852. History painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy (1869-72), then until 1874
of E. Bendeman, after whose compositions he
executed some decorations in the Cornelius
room of the National Gallery in Berlin.
Works: Communion of the Hussites before
Battle (1874); Gudrun (1877); Surrender of
Fortress Rosenberg in 1427 (1880).—Kunst-Chronik,
ix. 682, xii. 665.
BECKWITH, JAMES CARROLL, born
in Hannibal, Mo., Sept. 23, 1852. Figure
and portrait painter, pupil, in 1873, of
Carolus Duran and of the École des Beaux
Arts in Paris. Sketched in Spain and Normandy
in 1880-81. Member of Society of
American Artists. Studio in New York.
Works: Christian Martyr, Head of a Child
(1881); Azalea, Model's Breakfast (1882);
Cordelia, Summer (1883); Vivian (1884).
Portraits: Wm. M. Chase, Ethel (1882);
Miss Jordan (1883).
BECQUET, HENRI JEAN, born at
Bruges in 1812, died there, Oct. 19, 1855.
History painter, pupil at Bruges Academy
of Dumery, then at Antwerp Academy of
N. de Keyzer; after his return became pro-
