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 Catherine, Palazzo Doria, Rome; Holy Family, Pitti, Florence. Beccafumi designed the best compositions which decorate the pavement of the Duomo, Siena. Seven of his cartoons for this work are preserved in the Academy.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 254; Vasari, ed. Mil. v. 633; Gaye, Carteggio, ii. 244, 355; Jansen, Leben und Werke des Malers Gio. Ant. Bazzi, Stuttgart (1870), 117; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 254; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 408.

BECCARUZZI, FRANCESCO, born at Conegliano, flourished in 1527-1544. Venetian school; probably pupil of Pordenone, but in his pictures a successful imitator of Titian, though he shows in some respects, especially in his sketchy treatment, the decline of the Venetian school. Painted mostly altarpieces for churches in Conegliano and Treviso. Works: St. Francis with six other Saints, Venice Academy.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 259; Ridolfi, Marav., i. 207; C. & C., Italy, ii. 166.

BECERRA, GASPAR, born at Baeza about 1520, died in Madrid in 1570. Spanish school. Passed many years at Rome, studying painting, sculpture, and architecture; aided Daniele da Volterra in the embellishment of the Rovere Chapel in Trinità de' Monti, where he painted a Nativity of the Virgin, and Giorgio Vasari, who calls him Bizzera, in the frescos of the Cancellaria in the palace of Cardinal Farnese. Returned to Spain in 1556, became sculptor to Philip II. in 1562 and one of his painters in ordinary in 1563. He executed frescos in the Alcazar of Madrid and many altarpieces, few of which have survived, but devoted most of his time to sculpture. A Sybil attributed to him is in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, and a Magdalen in the Museo de Fomento, Madrid.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 229, vii. 60, 681; Stirling, i. 241; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Cean Bermudez; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 260.

BECKENKAMP, KASPAR BENEDIKT, born at Ehrenbreitstein, near Coblentz, Feb. 5, 1747, died at Cologne, April 1, 1828. German school; history, landscape, and portrait painter, pupil of his father and of Januarius Zick, at Coblentz, where he found a patron in Clemens Wenceslaus, Elector of Treves, and painted many princely personages; settled at Cologne in 1795 and devoted himself chiefly to the reproduction of paintings by the Old German masters.—Merlo, Nachrichten, 28.

BECKER, ADOLF VON, born in Finland, Aug. 14, 1831. Genre painter; pupil of Copenhagen Academy in 1856-58; studied then in Düsseldorf, and from 1860 at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and under Couture, Cogniet, Hébert, Barrias, and Courbet. Went to Spain, in 1863, and to Italy, in 1866. In 1869 he was appointed professor of drawing at Helsingfors University. Works: Boy with Kite, French Judge (1863); Painter and Model (1867); Motherly Pride (1868); Gamblers (1869); After Dinner, A Game of Piquet, Sick Woman (1878).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 270.

BECKER, ALBERT, born in Berlin, Oct. 22, 1830. Genre and animal painter, pupil of Berlin Academy from 1848 under Klöber, and long his assistant in fresco painting. After a year in Paris (1860), he devoted himself to the representation of domestic animals, from his skill as a cattle painter was surnamed Cow-Becker. Works: Blind Man's Buff, Village Scene, By the Roadside in Spring, At the Brook, Unbidden Guests, Before the Parsonage, Halt at Forester's House, Before and After the Christening.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 270; Müller, 35.

BECKER, AUGUST, born in Darmstadt in 1822. Landscape painter, pupil in Darmstadt of Schilbach, then at Düsseldorf Academy. In 1844 he visited Norway, Switzerland, and Tyrol, afterwards the Scotch Highlands, and was repeatedly called to Balmoral to instruct the English princesses in drawing and landscape painting. Works: Alpenglühen (1846); the Hu