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 *grants of the Roman Campagna (1865), Orleans Museum; Phryne at the Festival of Eleusis, Pilgrimage in the Abruzzi Mountains (1866); Death of Sappho, Idyl (1867); Serenade, The Curious (1868); Inquisitive Little One, Death of Virginia (1869), Luxembourg Museum; Marguérite, Death of Manon Lescaut (1870); Ophelia's Madness, Ophelia's Death (1872); Cinderella, Caen Museum; Idyl (1873); Romeo and Juliet Dying, Montpellier Society of Art; Anuccia (1874); Magdalen, Know Thyself, Lesbia (1875); Aurora, Marguérite (1876); Echo, Education of the Virgin (1877); Cloister (1878); Galatea and Acis surprised by Polyphemus, Coming out of School (1879); The Bird Charmer, Marguérite in Church (1880); Love drawing Night over the Earth (1881); Cigale singing to the Moon, Waiting in Ambush (1882); The Sirens, Charlotte Corday's Last Day (1883); Calvary, Ophelia (1884); Youth, Study of a Head (1885).—Montrosier, Artistes modernes; Larousse.

BESCHEY, BALTHASAR, born at Antwerp, baptized Nov. 20, 1708, died there, April 15, 1776. Flemish school; history and portrait painter; pupil of Peeter Strick, an obscure artist; master of the guild in 1733; dean in 1756. With him the school of Antwerp, abandoning the traditions of Rubens, entered on the road to decline. Works: Flemish Family (1721 ?), Louvre, Paris; Joseph Sold by his Brethren, Joseph Viceroy of Egypt (1744), portrait of himself, do. of Martin Joseph Geeraerts, Antwerp Museum; Scene before Peasant's Cottage, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.—Cat. de Musée d'Anvers (1874), 46; Michiels, x. 484; Rooses (Reber), 441.

BESNARD, PAUL ALBERT, born in Paris; contemporary. History and portrait painter; pupil of A. Cabanel and J. Brémond. Won the prix de Rome in 1874. Medals: 3d class, 1874; 2d class, 1880. Works: Autumn (1874); A Fountain (1877); After a Defeat in the 5th Century (1880); Plenty encourages Labour, Remorse (1882); Souvenir of England (1883); Sickness and Convalescence (diptych, 1884); Paris (1885).

BESSON, FAUSTIN, born at Dôle, Jura, March 15, 1821, died in Paris, March, 1882. Genre and portrait painter; pupil of Brune, Decamps, and Gigoux, and of the École des Beaux Arts; had especial success with his ideal allegorical genre scenes. L. of Honour, 1865. Works: The Prelude (1844); A Summer Day (1846); The Women and the Secret (1848); Courtesans and Venetian Nobles (1849); Return of the Barber of Olmedo and of Gil Bias (1850); Youth of Lantara (1852), Dôle Museum; The Dauphine's Promenade (1855); Childhood of Grétry (1857), Toulouse Museum; Couston's Studio (1861); Callot and the Mountebank, An Adventure of Quentin de la Tour (1866); A Smile (1867).—Larousse, ii. 638; Chronique des B. Arts (1882), 68.

BETHESDA, POOL OF, Tintoretto, S. Rocco, Venice. A noble work, but eminently disagreeable. A crowd of figures, with a background of corrupt Renaissance architecture.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 322.

By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice. A disgusting picture, representing people afflicted with all kinds of diseases.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 341.

BETHKE, HERMANN, born at Brunswick, in 1825. Genre painter; pupil in Brunswick of Heinrich Brandes, and studied in Munich after the old masters. Works: Family Scene; Broken Pitcher; Siesta; Card Players (1865); Grandmother's Convalescence, Summer Morning (1866); Red Riding Hood, Saying Grace, Winter-Guests, Love-Letter.—Müller, 47.

BETTANITER, ALBERT, born at Metz; contemporary. History painter; pupil of Pils, Lehmann, and Maillart. Medal: 3d