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 executed some plates, chiefly after Jan Brueghel and Ph. Wouwennan. Three Views in Flanders ; after Srueghel. Four Hunting Pieces ; after N. N. Coypel. The Angel appearing to the Shepherds ; after Wouwerman. The Thirsty Traveller ; after the same. Kunning at the Ring ; after the lamt The Swimmers ; after the same. Cavalry defiling ; after the same. Halt of Cavali7 ; after the same. The Blacksmith ; after the tame,

BEAUNEVEU, Andre, a painter of miniatures, was emploj'ed in the early part of the 15th cen- tury in illustrating for the Duke Jean de Berry a Psalter, now in the National Library at Paris ; which for its beauty of conception and careful exe- cution will bear favourable comparison with the works of Sleister Wilhelm. The miniatures in a Prayer Book of this duke, now in the Royal Library at Brussels, are also attributed to Beauneveu.

BEAUTRIZET. See BfiATBiZET.

BEAUVAIS, DAUPHIN de. See Dauphin de Beauvais.

BEAUVARLET, Jacques Fibmin, a celebrated engraver, was born at Abbeville in 1731. He went to Paris when j-oung, and was instructed in the art by Charles Dupuis and Laurent Cars. His first manner was bold and free, and his plates in that style are preferred by some to the more finished and highly-wrought prints that he afterwards pro- duced, although it must be confessed that the latter are executed with great neatness and delicacy. Beauvarlet married, in 1761, Catherine Jeanne Fran9oise Deschamps, a young lady who possessed some skill in engraving, but who died in 1769 at the age of thirty-one. He married again in 1770, but became for a second time a widower in 1779. Eight years later, in 1787, he married Marie Catherine Riollet, who, like his first wife, was an engraver. She was bom in Paris in 1755, and is said to have died in 1788. Beauvarlet himself died in Paris in 1797. The foDowing are his principal works :

PORTRAITS.

Marie Adelaide, daughter of Lonis XV. ; after Nattier. Loais Joseph Xavier, Duke of Burgundy; after Fredou. Mile. Clairon, actress ; after Van Loo ; by Laurent Cars and Beauvarlet. The Abbe NoUet ; after la Tour. Edme Bouchardon, "sculptor : after Drouais. 1770. Jean Baptiste-Poquelin de Moliere ; after S. Bourdon. The Marquis de Bomballes ; after Roslin and Vernet. Catharine, Princess Galizin ; medallion. Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick. Uadame du Barry ; after Drouais.

SUBJECTS AFTER VARIOUS MASTERS,

Lot and his Daughters ; after Luca Giordano. Susannah and the Elders ; after the same. Perseus, combating Phineus, shows the Head of Medusa; after the same. Acis and Galatea ; after the same. The Judgment of Paris ; after the same. The Rape of Europa ; after the same. The Rape of the Sabines ; after the same. Susannah and the Elders ; after Guido Canlasst, The Sewers ; after Guido Reni ; very highly finished. The Incredulity of Thomas ; after Calabrese. Venus lamenting the Death of Adonis ; after A. Turchi. La Rusee ; after C. Vega. The Double Surprise ; after Ger. Dou The Fisherman ; after If. Carre. The Tric-trac Players ; after Teniers. The Bagpiper ; after the same. The Burgomaster ; after Oslade Diana and Actaeon ; after Rottenhammer. The Bathers ; after Boucher. The Trap ; after the same. Cupid chained by the Graces ; after the same. The Children of the Count de Bethune ; after Droua Le Colin Maillard ; after Fragonard. The Chastity of Joseph ; after Nattier, Susannah and the Elders ; after Vien, The Ofl'ering to Venus ; after the same. The Offering to Ceres ; after the same. Cupid holding his Bow ; after C. van Zoo. Ja Confidence ; after the same. The Sultana ; after the same. Lecture Espagnole ; after the same. Conversation Espagnole ; after the same. Telemachus m the Island of Calypso ; after Eaouz, The Toilet, and the Return from the Ball ; two companions ; after De Troy. Seven prmts of the History of Esther ; after J. F. dt Troy. A Subject from an Antique Painting at Herculaneom. A catalogue of his works was published at Abbeville in 1860 by I'Abbe Dairaine.

BEAVIS, Richard, was born at Exmouth in 1824, and spent his early life at Sidmouth. His boyish leanings towards art were sternly repressed by his father, and it was not until 1846 that, en- couraged and assisted by some friends, he made his way to London and became a student in the Government School of Design, Somerset House. In 1850 he became designer to a firm of decorators in Parliament Street, and his earliest exhibited works at the Royal Academy, in 1855, 1858 and 1860, were schemes of decoration executed for them. He continued at the same time during his leisure moments to practise both in oils and water- colours, and after exhibiting several times at the British Institution, obtained the admission to the Royal Academy, in 1862, of two pictures, 'A Mountain Rill ' and ' Fishermen picking up Wreck at Sea.' The success, financial as well as artistic, of these works was sufficient to justify him in devoting himself thenceforward to purely artistic production, and he became a regular contributor to the exhibitions, residing or travelling abroad for many years and choosing his subjects accordingly, in France, Holland, and Egypt. He was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours in 1882, a member in 1892, and died on November 13, 1896.

BECCAFUMI, DoMENico di Pace, was the son of a certain Giacomo (Jacopo) di Pace, a labourer on the property of the Sienese noble, Lorenzo Beccafumi, at Cortine, near Montaperto, in the Province of Siena, and was bom there in 1486. The boy early showed remarkable artistic promise, and used to amuse himself modelling animals, flowers and leaves in clay. His father's emploj'er having seen these works, and being struck with their merit, took him into his house as a sort of servitor, and gave him there opportunities for studying Art. Near his home there was then living an artist, named Mecarino, of poor abilities and circumstances, but possessing a fine collection of drawings by good masters. These the young Domenico di Pace studied carefully, and on Mecarino's death, by the artist's special wish, assumed his name. He is therefore frequently referred to in Sienese Art-History as H Mecarino (sometimes spelt Mecherino) ; the surname of his first patron Beccafumi being assumed in later years.

Vasari tells us that it was while at work in Rome that he heard of the artistic fame of the