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 Medal: 3d class, 1882. Works: Gleaners Surprised by Rain, Banks of the Aven (1876); April, La Saint-Fiacre (1877); On the Cliffs at Carteret, End of October (1878); November, Return from the Fields (1879); Sowing Season (1881); On the Heights of Omonville (1882); Walnut Trees of Augis in November, Goslings in April (1883); Return of the Flock, Windy Day (1884); In the Fields in October, Untilled Land—Winter Evening (1885).

BEAUVERIE, CHARLES JOSEPH, born at Lyons, France; contemporary. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Lyons school of art, and of Gleyre. Paints well coloured, carefully finished pictures. Medals: 3d class, 1877; 2d class, 1881. Works: Morning on the Oise, Avignon Museum; Butcher's Shop in Suburbs of Paris, Afternoon in Spring (1874); June, October Morning, Beggar Woman from Brittany, View near Cernay, Coming out of School (1879); The Forey Canal, St. Just-sur-Loire (1880); Girl Picking Peas, Autumn Evening (1881); Gathering Potatoes, Foggy Morning in Autumn (1882); Resting in the Fields, Ruins at Auvers (1883); Before the Rain, Morning at Auvers (1884); Valley of Amby, The Harrow (1885).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 253.

BEAVIS, RICHARD, born at Exmouth, England, in 1824. Landscape painter; in 1846 entered School of Design, Somerset House, London, and in 1850-63 was designer in a London carpet factory. Exhibited at Royal Academy in 1862, Mountain Rill, and Fishermen Picking up Wreck, and in 1863, In North Wales. Has visited France, Holland, Italy, Egypt, and the Holy Land. Member of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Works: Escape (1864); Military Train—Jersey, Drawing Timber in Picardy (1865); Loading Sand—Pas de Calais (1867); High Tide—Mouth of the Maas (1868); Hauling up a Fishing-Boat—Holland (1870); Autumn Ploughing (1871); Collecting Wreck—Ambleteuse (1872); Shore at Scheveningen (1873); Ferry-Boat in Old Holland (1874); Bedouin Caravan, Ploughing in Egypt (1876); Threshing Floor at Gilgal, In the Forest at Fontainebleau (1877); Halt of Prince Edward (1878); Pilgrims to Mecca (1879); Bedouin Encampment in Syria (1880); Retreat to Corunna (1883); Buckhurst Park, Hatfield Park (1885).—Art Journal (1877), 65; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 253.

BECCADELLI, Legate, portrait, Titian, Uffizi, Florence; canvas, life size. The prelate, seated in an arm-chair, holds in his hands an unfolded paper. Painted in 1552. Engraved by J. C. Ulmer.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 216.

BECCAFUMI, DOMENICO, born near Siena in 1486, died in Siena, May 18, 1551. Sienese school; son of Giacomo di Pace, a labourer in the service of Lorenzo Beccafumi, by whom he was apprenticed to the painter G. B. Tozzo, called Capanna, and whose surname he adopted; also called Mecuccio or Mecherino, on account of his insignificant appearance. Domenico may have met Perugino in Siena in 1508, and have felt his influence. In Rome, where he spent about two years (1510-1512), he became enamoured of the works of Michelangelo, whom he afterwards weakly imitated. On his return to Siena (1512) he competed with Sodoma with credit to himself, though he cannot be justly compared with that great artist. His style became more and more mannered as he advanced in life. The earliest and perhaps the best of his works is the St. Catherine Receiving the Stigmata (1512) and Saints, Siena Gallery; other works are the Marriage and Death of the Virgin, frescos (1518), S. Bernardino, Siena; Visitation, Hospital, Siena; Nativity (1523), S. Martino, Siena; Marriage of St.