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BECKER dence ; Farewell, W. H. Fosdick, Louis- viUe ; Petition to the Doge (1860), W. T. Walters, Baltimore ; Good Morning, Vene- tian Lady, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia ; Grand- father's Birthday, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia ; Welcome Guests, J. T. Mar- tin, Brooklyn : Petitioning the Doge, C. P. Huntington, New York.- Brockhaus, ii. 670; Meyer, Kiiust. Lex., iii. 268 ; Mttller, 34 ; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 91, 125 ; Land und Meer (1883), ii. 909. BECKER, LUDWIG HUGO, born at Wesel, July 19, 1833, died in Dusseldorf, Dec. 25, 1868. Landscape painter, pupil at Dusseldorf 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. Blauckaris, 32 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 270 ; Zeitsch. f. b. K., viii. 275. BECKER, PETER, born in Frankfort, Nov. 10, 1828. Landscape and architecture painter ; pupil at Stadel Institute, under Jakob Becker and Hessemer. The banks of the Rhine have furnished him with subjects for many landscapes. Member of Societu beige des Aquarellistes. Thirty large views of old Frankfort (cartoons), Rhine landscapes in oil and water colours. Meyer, Kfiust. Lex., iii. 269. BECKERATH, MORITZ VON, born at Crefeld in 1838. History painter, pupil at Dilsseldorf Academy of Kehren, then from 1859, in Munich, of Schwind. Works : Death of Duke Ulrich of Wiirtemberg (1869), Burial of Alaric, Schack Gallery, Munich ; The Dream, Tragedy by Heine, Lear and the Fool, Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow (1866); Gotz of Berlichingen with the Gipsies, Scenes from Crusades, Offering of the German Crown by Louis II. of Ba- varia (1874). Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 272 ; Illustr. Zeitg. (1871), ii. 348. BECKMANN, KARL, bom 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. Bene- detto near Subiaco, National Gallery, Ber- lin. Jordan, 43. BECKMANN, KONRAD, born in Han- over, 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- Chrouik, v. 108, xiv. 142. BECKMANN, LUDWIG, born in Han- over, Feb. 21, 1822. Animal painter; stu- dio in Dusseldorf. His spirited and truth- ful boar and bear hunts have been bought mostly in England. Brockhaus, ii. 675. BECKMANN, WTLHELM (HERMANN ROBERT AUGUST), born in Dasseldorf, Oct. 3, 1852. History painter, pupil of Dus- seldorf Academy (1869-72), then until 1874 of RBeudeman, 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 Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Sketched in Spain and Nor- mandy 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-