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 *fessor at Bruges Academy. Works: Last Moments of Mozart; Holy Family, Academy, Bruges; Martyrdom of St. Philemon, St. John's Hospital, ib.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 76.

BEDAFF, ANTONIS VAN, born at Antwerp, Dec. 25, 1787, died at Brussels in 1829. History and portrait painter, pupil of the Central School at Antwerp, but formed himself principally by study of the Dutch masters of the 17th century; for a long time professor and director of the school of design at Bois-le-Duc; settled afterwards at Brussels. Works: First Meeting of the Estates General at Dordrecht in 1572, Last Interview of William of Orange with Egmont, Confederation of the Nobles, National Museum, Amsterdam.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, ii. 76.

BEDOLO, GIROLAMO. See Mazzola, Girolamo.

BEECHEY, Sir WILLIAM, born at Burford, Oxfordshire, Dec. 12, 1753, died at Hampstead, Jan. 28, 1839. Admitted a student of the Royal Academy, London, in 1772, and after painting portraits and pictures in Hogarth's manner several years in Norwich returned to London, where he long enjoyed uninterrupted favour with the fashionable world. In 1793 he painted a portrait of Queen Charlotte and was appointed by her royal portrait painter, and became an A.R.A. In 1798 he painted the large equestrian picture, now at Hampton Court, of George III. at a Review in Hyde Park, and in the same year became R.A. and was knighted. He is said to have exhibited 362 portraits at the Academy. As examples of his style may be cited his own portrait, and those of Sir F. Bourgeris, George Rose, and Mrs. Siddons, in the National Portrait Gallery, the portrait of Joseph Nollekens in the National Academy, that of George III. in the Waterloo Chapel, Windsor, and that of Mr. Coffin in the possession of his descendant, Miss Robbins, in Boston, Mass. He was successful in likenesses, but his women are wanting in grace and his men in character.—Cat. Nat. Port. Gal.; Redgrave; F. de Conches, 327; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Art Union Journal (1839); Meyer, iii. 277; Sandby, i. 311.

BEELT, CORNELIS, second half of 17th century. Dutch school; landscape and genre painter in the manner of Claes Molenaer, and Helmont, the elder. Works: Interior of Weaver's Room, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; do., and Coast View, Mannheim Gallery; Strand of Schevoningen, P. von Semenoff, St. Petersburg.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 281.

BEER, WILHELM (AMANDUS), born in Frankfort, Aug. 9, 1837. Genre painter, pupil of his great-uncle, the landscape painter Radl, then studied history painting in Städel Institute under Steinle. Having visited the Bavarian Alps, he took up genre painting, especially peasant life. After repeated sojourns in Russia he returned to Frankfort in 1870. Works: Thomas of Bologna visiting Albrecht Dürer; St. Cecilia; The Meistersingers; Banquet at a Nuremberg Patrician's; Arrival of Church Bell in Bavarian Village; Return of the Best Shot; Turkish Prisoners in Russian Town; Peasants' Festival on St. Nicholas Day; Russian Gipsy Camp; On the River-Banks of a Russian Town; First Turkish Prisoners in Dorogobush. Exhibited at Munich (1883): Fair in Slednova, Horse Market in Russian Village, Gipsies in a Ravine.—Müller, 36.

BEERNAERT, EUPHROSINE, born at Ostend, Belgium, April 11, 1831. Landscape painter; pupil, in Brussels, of P. L. Kuhnen; travelled in Germany, France, and Italy. Medals in Vienna (1873), Brussels (1875), Philadelphia (1876), Sidney (1879), Melbourne (1880); Order of Leopold (1881). Paints chiefly Dutch views. Works: The Brook (1867); Old Oaks, Lisière de bois dans les dunes (1878); Village of Domburg (1878); Wood at Oost-Kapel (1878).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 286.

BEERS, JAN VAN, born in Belgium; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter; studio in Antwerp. Works: Long Live the