BACKEKEEL Adonis, and Cupid. Cassel Gallery ; Por- trait of F. de Vroucle (1643), Berlin Museum ; male and female portrait, Old Man in Prayer, Dresden Gallery. Meyer, Kilnst. Lex., ii. 517 ; Riegel, Beitrage, ii. 300. BACKEREEL, GILLES, born in Antwerp, master of the guild in 1C29, died after 1652. Flemish school ; history painter, studied in Rome and then lived mostly at Antwerp. Works : Vision of St. Felix, Adoration of the Shepherds, Brussels Museum ; Hero bewailing Leander, Vienna Museum. Rooses (Reber), 156. BACKHUYSEN (Bakhuizen), LUDOLF, born at Em- den, Dec. 18, 1G31, died at Amsterdam, Nov. 17, 1708. Dutch school ; marine painter, pupil of Aldert van Everdin- genand ofHen- drick Dubbels, but chiefly stud- ied from na- ture, often ex- posing himself to great danger to observe the sea in its various aspects. Also painted portraits on a small scale. Peter the Great visited his studio in Amsterdam. Works : Dutch Shipping (1683), four others, National Gallery, London ; Boats in a Storm (1696), Dulwich Gallery ; Dutch Squadron (1675), four others, Louvre ; Man-of-War, Antwerp Museum ; Port of Amsterdam (1673), Em- barkation of Jan de Witt (1690), Agitated Sea (1692), The Zuider Zee (1694), two Marines, Disembarkation of William III. (1692), Entrance of Dutch Port (1693), Building Yard of East India Company at Amsterdam (1696), National Museum, Am- sterdam ; Ice Landscape, Marine (1689), two others, Copenhagen Gallery ; Sea Harbour, Stockholm Museum ; Storm at Sea, Portrait of Himself, several others, Ludwigslust Gal- lery ; Shipwreck, Portrait of Old Man, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Stormy Sea, Slightly Agitated Sea (1664), Berlin Mu- seum ; Coast View, Bamberg Gallery ; View on the Y (1700), Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort ; /f i Approaching Storm it i/But*"' at Sea> Kiver Land " J*^ scape, Vienna Mu- seum ; Agitated Sea (1669), Palazzo Pitti, 158 Florence. Ch. Blanc, Ecole hollandaise ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 502 ; Meyer, Kilnst. Lex., ii. 521. BACLER D'ALBE, LOUIS ALBERT GUILLAIN, Baron de, born at St. Pol (Pas de Calais), Oct. 21, 1762, died in Sevres, Sept. 12, 1824. Landscape painter, studied from nature in the Alps of Savoy ; entered the army at the outbreak of the revolution and took part in the sieges of Lyons and Toulon ; was afterwards director of the topo- graphic corps and brigadier-general under Napoleon. Left the service in 1813. Works : Battle of Lodi ; Crossing the Po ; Battle of Rivoli ; Battle of Arcola ; After the Battle of Austerlitz, Versailles Gallery. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., ii. 525. BACON, HENRY, born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1839. Subject painter ; in 1864 visited Paris, where he became a pupil of the Ecole des Beaux Arts and of Cabanel; and in 1866-67 studied under Edouard Frere at Ecouen. Studio in Paris. Works : Paying the Scot (1870), W. B. Be- ment, Philadelphia ; Boston Boys and Gen- eral Gage (1875,) C. R. Rogers, Philadel- phia; Franklin at Home (1876), J. B. 90
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