- berg; two portraits of Bavarian Princes,
Nostitz Gallery, Prague; fifteen do., Schleissheim Gallery; Two altar wings with Saints, Sigmaringen Museum; St. Bruno in the Desert, Stuttgart Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ii. 277; Keane, Early Masters, 151; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 311; Scott, Little Masters, 49; W. & W., ii. 410; Rosenberg, S. & B. Beham, Leipsic, 1875.
BEHAM (Behaim, Behem), HANS SEBALD,
born at Nuremberg in 1500, died in
Frankfort, Nov. 22, 1550. German school;
banished, with his brother Barthel, in 1524,
but seems to have returned to Nuremberg,
and afterwards led a wandering life, appearing
in Munich, 1530, and settled in Frankfort
in 1534. Was most prominent as one
of the Little Masters, excelling as a painter
only in miniatures. Works: Table-Top,
with Scenes from Life of David, Louvre;
do. with Bathers, etc., Wiesbaden Museum;
Scenes of
Bathing,
Shipping and
Hunting,
Berlin Museum.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., ii. 279; Keane,
Early Masters, 144; Kugler (Crowe), i. 179;
Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 318; Scott, Little
Masters, 49; W. & W., ii. 407; Rosenberg,
S. & B. Beham.
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BEHMER, HERMANN, born at Merzien, Anhalt, in 1831. Genre and portrait painter, pupil from 1853 in Berlin of Steffeck, and at the Academy, then (1856) in Paris, at the École des Beaux Arts, and of Flandrin and Couture. After a two years' journey through Italy, Egypt, and Palestine in 1866-68, he settled in Berlin, whence in 1873 he removed to Weimar. Medal, in Philadelphia, 1876. Works: Girl with Wild Roses, Interior of House at Bethlehem (1868).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 335.
BEHR, CAREL JACOBUS, born at The
Hague, July 9, 1812. Architecture painter,
pupil of B. J. van Hove; member of Amsterdam
Academy, 1837. Works: View of City
Hall at The Hague (1836); Binnenhof, ib.
(1839); Winter Landscape (1840); Hetlange
Voorhout, Hague (1842); Ruins of old Castle,
Pavilion, Haarlem.—Immerzeel, i. 39.
BEHRENDSEN, AUGUST, born in Magdeburg,
in 1810. Landscape painter, pupil
at Berlin Academy of Schirmer, to whose
style he adhered in most of his landscapes;
settled in Königsberg, where, in 1855, he
became professor at the Academy; obtained
the gold medal in 1862, and was made
member of the Berlin Academy in 1869.
Studio at Meran, Tyrol. Works: View near
Conegliano, Landscape in the style of Claude
Lorrain, Mill on Mountain Brook, Morning
in the Alps (Königsberg Museum); Evening
in the Salzburg Mountains, View on the
Traun Hills, On Lake Como, On the Coast
of Genoa, Coast near Nice, Evening on the
Haff, Clearing in Pinewood, Lake in the
High Alps, From Northern Tyrol.—Dioskuren
(1860), 384; (1861), 245; (1864), 431;
(1866), 58, 369; (1867), 156; Kugler, Kl.
Schriften, iii. 574, 677; Kunstblatt (1855),
395; (1856), 432; (1857), 122; Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 336.
BEICH, JOACHIM FRANZ, born at
Ravensburg, Oct. 15, 1665, died in Munich
in 1748. Landscape and battle painter,
pupil and of son Daniel Beich (flourished at
Ravensburg and Munich second half of 17th
century); completed his studies in Italy after
Poussin, and became court painter to the
Elector of Bavaria. His pictures are artificial,
but often grand in composition.
Works: Prophet Elijah, John Baptist, and
others, Old Pinakothek, Munich; eleven great
Episodes from the Turkish War (1683-88),
Schleissheim Gallery; others in Vienna
Museum; Brunswick, Manheim, and Stuttgart
Galleries.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 567;
Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 337.
BEIDEMANN, ALEXANDER JEGOROVICH,
born in St. Petersburg, Aug. 17,
1826, died there, Feb. 27, 1869. History
and portrait painter, pupil of the St. Petersburg
Academy; visited Germany, Italy,
and France in 1857-60; after his return
became member of the Academy, and in
