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 *dence; Farewell, W. H. Fosdick, Louisville; Petition to the Doge (1860), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Good Morning, Venetian Lady, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia; Grand-*father's Birthday, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia; Welcome Guests, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn: Petitioning the Doge, C. P. Huntington, New York.—Brockhaus, ii. 670; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 268; Müller, 34; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 91, 125; Land und Meer (1883), ii. 909.

BECKER, LUDWIG HUGO, born at Wesel, July 19, 1833, died in Düsseldorf, Dec. 25, 1868. Landscape painter, pupil at Düsseldorf Academy of Schirmer and Gude, travelled afterwards in Westphalia, Switzerland, Normandy, and to the Baltic. Works: Sacrifice of the Ancient Germans (1856); Shepherd in the Pasture, Sunday Morning, Passing Storm, Washerwomen at the Brook, Village in the Snow, Christmas Eve, Boys Bathing, Shepherd Boy, On the Heights (1867); Vintage on the Moselle.—Blanckaris, 32; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 270; Zeitsch. f. b. K., viii. 275.

BECKER, PETER, born in Frankfort, Nov. 10, 1828. Landscape and architecture painter; pupil at Städel Institute, under Jakob Becker and Hessemer. The banks of the Rhine have furnished him with subjects for many landscapes. Member of Société belge des Aquarellistes. Thirty large views of old Frankfort (cartoons), Rhine landscapes in oil and water colours.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 269.

BECKERATH, MORITZ VON, born at Crefeld in 1838. History painter, pupil at Düsseldorf Academy of Kehren, then from 1859, in Munich, of Schwind. Works: Death of Duke Ulrich of Würtemberg (1869), Burial of Alaric, Schack Gallery, Munich; The Dream, Tragedy by Heine, Lear and the Fool, Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow (1866); Götz of Berlichingen with the Gipsies, Scenes from Crusades, Offering of the German Crown by Louis II. of Bavaria (1874).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 272; Illustr. Zeitg. (1871), ii. 348.

BECKMANN, KARL, born in Berlin, March 23, 1799, died there, Oct. 2, 1859. Landscape and architecture painter, pupil of Wach, visited Paris in 1824 and was in Italy in 1828-33. Was professor at the Berlin Academy. Works: Monastery of S. Benedetto near Subiaco, National Gallery, Berlin.—Jordan, 43.

BECKMANN, KONRAD, born in Hanover, in 1846. Genre painter, pupil, in 1866-68, of Munich Academy, then of Piloty; paints humorous subjects. Works: Tailor reading Newspaper (1868); Best Shot (1870); Sacrifice of a Village Poet.—Kunst-Chronik, v. 108, xiv. 142.

BECKMANN, LUDWIG, born in Hanover, Feb. 21, 1822. Animal painter; studio in Düsseldorf. His spirited and truthful boar and bear hunts have been bought mostly in England.—Brockhaus, ii. 675.

BECKMANN, WILHELM (HERMANN ROBERT AUGUST), born in Düsseldorf, Oct. 3, 1852. History painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy (1869-72), then until 1874 of E. Bendeman, after whose compositions he executed some decorations in the Cornelius room of the National Gallery in Berlin. Works: Communion of the Hussites before Battle (1874); Gudrun (1877); Surrender of Fortress Rosenberg in 1427 (1880).—Kunst-Chronik, ix. 682, xii. 665.

BECKWITH, JAMES CARROLL, born in Hannibal, Mo., Sept. 23, 1852. Figure and portrait painter, pupil, in 1873, of Carolus Duran and of the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Sketched in Spain and Normandy in 1880-81. Member of Society of American Artists. Studio in New York. Works: Christian Martyr, Head of a Child (1881); Azalea, Model's Breakfast (1882); Cordelia, Summer (1883); Vivian (1884). Portraits: Wm. M. Chase, Ethel (1882); Miss Jordan (1883).

BECQUET, HENRI JEAN, born at Bruges in 1812, died there, Oct. 19, 1855. History painter, pupil at Bruges Academy of Dumery, then at Antwerp Academy of N. de Keyzer; after his return became pro