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 *berg; two portraits of Bavarian Princes, Nostitz Gallery, Prague; fifteen do., Schleissheim Gallery; Two altar wings with Saints, Sigmaringen Museum; St. Bruno in the Desert, Stuttgart Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ii. 277; Keane, Early Masters, 151; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 311; Scott, Little Masters, 49; W. & W., ii. 410; Rosenberg, S. & B. Beham, Leipsic, 1875.

BEHAM (Behaim, Behem), HANS SEBALD, born at Nuremberg in 1500, died in Frankfort, Nov. 22, 1550. German school; banished, with his brother Barthel, in 1524, but seems to have returned to Nuremberg, and afterwards led a wandering life, appearing in Munich, 1530, and settled in Frankfort in 1534. Was most prominent as one of the Little Masters, excelling as a painter only in miniatures. Works: Table-Top, with Scenes from Life of David, Louvre; do. with Bathers, etc., Wiesbaden Museum; Scenes of Bathing, Shipping and Hunting, Berlin Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ii. 279; Keane, Early Masters, 144; Kugler (Crowe), i. 179; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 318; Scott, Little Masters, 49; W. & W., ii. 407; Rosenberg, S. & B. Beham.

BEHMER, HERMANN, born at Merzien, Anhalt, in 1831. Genre and portrait painter, pupil from 1853 in Berlin of Steffeck, and at the Academy, then (1856) in Paris, at the École des Beaux Arts, and of Flandrin and Couture. After a two years' journey through Italy, Egypt, and Palestine in 1866-68, he settled in Berlin, whence in 1873 he removed to Weimar. Medal, in Philadelphia, 1876. Works: Girl with Wild Roses, Interior of House at Bethlehem (1868).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 335.

BEHR, CAREL JACOBUS, born at The Hague, July 9, 1812. Architecture painter, pupil of B. J. van Hove; member of Amsterdam Academy, 1837. Works: View of City Hall at The Hague (1836); Binnenhof, ib. (1839); Winter Landscape (1840); Hetlange Voorhout, Hague (1842); Ruins of old Castle, Pavilion, Haarlem.—Immerzeel, i. 39.

BEHRENDSEN, AUGUST, born in Magdeburg, in 1810. Landscape painter, pupil at Berlin Academy of Schirmer, to whose style he adhered in most of his landscapes; settled in Königsberg, where, in 1855, he became professor at the Academy; obtained the gold medal in 1862, and was made member of the Berlin Academy in 1869. Studio at Meran, Tyrol. Works: View near Conegliano, Landscape in the style of Claude Lorrain, Mill on Mountain Brook, Morning in the Alps (Königsberg Museum); Evening in the Salzburg Mountains, View on the Traun Hills, On Lake Como, On the Coast of Genoa, Coast near Nice, Evening on the Haff, Clearing in Pinewood, Lake in the High Alps, From Northern Tyrol.—Dioskuren (1860), 384; (1861), 245; (1864), 431; (1866), 58, 369; (1867), 156; Kugler, Kl. Schriften, iii. 574, 677; Kunstblatt (1855), 395; (1856), 432; (1857), 122; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 336.

BEICH, JOACHIM FRANZ, born at Ravensburg, Oct. 15, 1665, died in Munich in 1748. Landscape and battle painter, pupil and of son Daniel Beich (flourished at Ravensburg and Munich second half of 17th century); completed his studies in Italy after Poussin, and became court painter to the Elector of Bavaria. His pictures are artificial, but often grand in composition. Works: Prophet Elijah, John Baptist, and others, Old Pinakothek, Munich; eleven great Episodes from the Turkish War (1683-88), Schleissheim Gallery; others in Vienna Museum; Brunswick, Manheim, and Stuttgart Galleries.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 567; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 337.

BEIDEMANN, ALEXANDER JEGOROVICH, born in St. Petersburg, Aug. 17, 1826, died there, Feb. 27, 1869. History and portrait painter, pupil of the St. Petersburg Academy; visited Germany, Italy, and France in 1857-60; after his return became member of the Academy, and in