Fall of Pompeii (1852); Conversation (1853), National Gallery, Berlin; Descent from Cross (1853), St. Michael's Church, Berlin; Portraits of Sculptor Sussmann (1856), of Johannes von Müller (1858), of Count Schwerin Putzar (1858), of Cornelius (1861), Antwerp Museum; of Paulina Lucca, Crown Prince of Prussia, Princess Victoria (1866), Count von Moltke (1868), King William (1869), Reception of the Salzburg Protestants in Potsdam (1864), Frederic the Great in the Chapel at Charlottenburg (1868), Diana and Actæon, Six Scenes from Cupid and Psyche, Thirteen Allegories, Berlin City Hall; Snipe Hunting on Rügen (1872); Chase in the Woods (1876); Venus Resting, Judgment of Paris, Mother's Joy, Gretchen, Eva, Editha (1881).—Brockhaus, ii. 689; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 302; Müller, 37; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 75.
BEGAS, PARMENTIER LUISE, born
in Vienna; contemporary. Architecture
and landscape painter; pupil in Vienna of
Schindler; visited Constantinople, then several
times Italy, especially Venice, Rome,
and Taormina in Sicily; studio in Berlin
since 1877, when she was married to Adalbert
Begas. Works: Venetian Vistas, Kitchen
Interior in Sicily, Burial-Ground in Scutari.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 306; Müller, 38;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., xiii. 378; Kunst-Chronik,
xv. 549.
BEGEIJN (Bega), ABRAHAM CORNELISZ,
born at Leyden(?) in 1621 or 1622,
died in Berlin, June 11, 1697. Dutch school;
landscape, animal, marine, and still-life
painter; settled at The Hague since 1653,
went to Berlin as court painter to the Elector
of Brandenburg in 1688. In his earlier
works he approaches the manner of Asselyn,
in his later ones that of Berchem. Works:
Coast near Naples, Brussels Museum; Still
Life in Italian Landscape (1653), Bordeaux
Museum; Wood Landscape, Landscape with
Thistles, Butterflies, and Birds, Brunswick
Gallery; Landscapes with Cattle, in the
Louvre, Paris, the Amsterdam (1660) and
Berlin Museums, Copenhagen (3), Oldenburg,
Göttingen, Schwerin Galleries, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg (2), Liechtenstein Gallery,
Vienna.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 307; Riegel,
Beiträge, ii. 389.
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BEGGROFF, ALEXANDER CARLOVICH, born in St. Petersburg, Dec. 17, 1841. Marine painter, son of the water colour painter and lithographer Carl Petrovich B.; pupil of St. Petersburg Academy, then in Paris (1871-74) of Bogoljuboff. Works: Views of Canea, Plymouth, Havre, Rouen, Étretat, Fécamp, Dordrecht; Views in Livland; Mouth of the Neva, Baird's Factory, and Exchange at St. Petersburg; Harbor at Peterhof; The Steamships Dershava, Grand Duke Constantine, Svietlana (1872-81); Winter View of St. Petersburg (1878).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 309.
BEHAM (Behaim, Behem), BARTHEL,
born in Nuremberg in 1502, died in Venice
in 1540. German school; history and portrait
painter, pupil of Dürer. In 1524 he
was accused of heresy, and exiled, together
with his brother, Hans Sebald, and George
Pencz. In 1527 was at Munich, in service of
Duke William of Bavaria, who sent him
afterwards to Italy. Was also an engraver,
and one of the so-called Little Masters.
Works: Palatine Otto Heinrich (1535), Augsburg
Gallery; five panels with Saints, Christ
on Mount of Olives, Berlin Museum; three
pictures with Saints and Donors, altarpiece
with Coronation of the Virgin (1536), do.,
with SS. Ann, Andrew, Erasmus, etc., Christ
on the Cross, four panels with Saints, Fürstenberg
Gallery, Donaueschingen; three
panels with portraits of King Ferdinand's
Children (?), Amsterdam Museum; altarpiece
with Flagellation and Saints, Kunsthalle,
Carlsruhe; Miracle of the Cross
(1530), Death of Curtius (1540), King Louis
of Hungary, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Christ
bearing the Cross, Maurice Chapel, Nurem-