- fessor at Bruges Academy. Works: Last
Moments of Mozart; Holy Family, Academy, Bruges; Martyrdom of St. Philemon, St. John's Hospital, ib.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 76.
BEDAFF, ANTONIS VAN, born at Antwerp,
Dec. 25, 1787, died at Brussels in 1829.
History and portrait painter, pupil of the
Central School at Antwerp, but formed himself
principally by study of the Dutch masters
of the 17th century; for a long time
professor and director of the school of design
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 Egmont,
Confederation of the Nobles, National
Museum, Amsterdam.—Biog. nat. de Belgique,
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 Royal Academy, London, in
1772, and after painting portraits and pictures
in Hogarth's manner several years in
Norwich returned to London, where he long
enjoyed uninterrupted favour with the fashionable
world. In 1793 he painted a portrait
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. Siddons, in the National Portrait Gallery,
the portrait of Joseph Nollekens in the
National Academy, that of George III. in
the Waterloo Chapel, Windsor, and that of
Mr. Coffin in the possession of his descendant,
Miss Robbins, in Boston, Mass. He
was successful in likenesses, but his women
are wanting in grace and his men in character.—Cat.
Nat. Port. Gal.; Redgrave; F.
de Conches, 327; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise;
Art Union Journal (1839); Meyer, iii. 277;
Sandby, i. 311.
BEELT, CORNELIS, 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, Künst.
Lex., iii. 281.
BEER, WILHELM (AMANDUS), born
in Frankfort, Aug. 9, 1837. Genre painter,
pupil of his great-uncle, the landscape
painter Radl, then studied history painting
in Städel Institute under Steinle. Having
visited the Bavarian Alps, he took up genre
painting, especially peasant life. After repeated
sojourns in Russia he returned to
Frankfort in 1870. Works: Thomas of Bologna
visiting Albrecht Dürer; St. Cecilia;
The Meistersingers; Banquet at a Nuremberg
Patrician's; Arrival of Church Bell in
Bavarian Village; Return of the Best Shot;
Turkish Prisoners in Russian Town; Peasants'
Festival on St. Nicholas Day; Russian
Gipsy Camp; On the River-Banks of a Russian
Town; First Turkish Prisoners in Dorogobush.
Exhibited at Munich (1883):
Fair in Slednova, Horse Market in Russian
Village, Gipsies in a Ravine.—Müller, 36.
BEERNAERT, EUPHROSINE, born at
Ostend, Belgium, April 11, 1831. Landscape
painter; pupil, in Brussels, of P. L.
Kuhnen; travelled in Germany, France,
and Italy. Medals in Vienna (1873), Brussels
(1875), Philadelphia (1876), Sidney
(1879), Melbourne (1880); Order of Leopold
(1881). Paints chiefly Dutch views. Works:
The Brook (1867); Old Oaks, Lisière de
bois dans les dunes (1878); Village of Domburg
(1878); Wood at Oost-Kapel (1878).—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 286.
BEERS, JAN VAN, born in Belgium;
contemporary. Genre and portrait painter;
studio in Antwerp. Works: Long Live the
