BERCK View of Heidelberg Castle, Copenhagen Gal- lery ; View at The Hague, Berlin Museum ; two Views in Amsterdam (one dated 1665), do. in Cologne and Bonn, Schwerin Gallery ; Square before Ancient Buildings, Hunting Party, Dresden Gallery ; View in Haarlem (1673, attributed to Job), View in Amster- dam, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; View of Haarlem Cathedral, View in Cologne, Uffizi, Florence. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 586 ; Van der Willigen, 79. BEECK-HEYDE (Berk Heyde), JOB, born at Haarlem, baptized Jan. 27, 1630, died there, Nov. 23, 1693. Dutch school ; ; landscape, architecture, and genre painter ; j pupil of Jacob de Wet, and of Frans Hals ; j Master of Haarlem guild in 1654. Went with his brother Gerrit up the Rhine as far as Heidelberg, where they were patronized by the Elector Palatine ; after their re- turn to Haarlem they lived together, both re- maining unmarried. Works: Interior of Old Exchange at Amsterdam (1678), Arenberg Gallery, Brussels ; Studio of Frans Hals, Joseph's Brethren in Egypt (1669), Interior of Old Exchange, Church Interior (1664), Amsterdam Museum ; Courtesan's Room, Rotterdam Museum ; Interior, Stiidel Gal- lery, Frankfort ; Family Assembled before House, Meiningen Gallery ; Church Interior, Gottingen Gallery ; Soldiers on Guard, Ama- lienstift, Dessau ; Winter Landscape, Ber- lin Museum ; Christ and the Children (1662), Man at Breakfast, Schwerin Gallery ; Interior of Haarlem Cathedral (1665), Dresden Gallery ; two Landscapes, two Ani- mal Pieces (?), Liech- * tenstein Gallery, Vi- ff &Or. Mydt enna ; Artist's Portrait * (1675), Uffizi, Florence. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 585 ; Quellenschriften, xiv. 362 ; Van der Willigen, 78. BERCKMAN, HENDRIK, born at Klun- dert, near Willemstad, in 1629, died at Mid- delburg (?) in 1690. Dutch school ; portrait painter ; pupil at Haarlem of Philips Wou- werman, and in Antwerp of Willeboorts and Jordaens; entered the guild at Leydeu in 1654, probably only for a short time. Court painter to Count Henry of Nassau, after whose death he settled at Middelburg. De Bie speaks highly of his archery pieces and the portraits of Admirals de Ruyter and Evertsen. Works : Portrait of Vice-Admi- ral Bankert (1648), Amsterdam Museum ; do. of Joost van Trappen, Rotterdam Mu- seum. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 587. BERDELLE, JOHANN BAPTIST, born in Mentz, May 15, 1813, died in Munich, July 19, 1876. History and portrait painter ; pupil of Diisseldorf Academy, under Scha- dow, visited (1841-45) Paris, and North Italy, especially Venice, then settled in Munich, where he was greatly influenced by Genelli and by Rahl. Undeserved oppo- sition and disparagement on the part of the reigning clique drove him to suicide ; he drowned himself in the Isar. Works : Blind Nimrod(1847); two Religious Pictures with Saints (1854) ; Female Portrait (1856) ; Maria Hilf ! The Four Seasons (1861); Myth of Ariou, Hageu with the Mermaids (1867); fourteen Groups from Greek Mythology (1871), Staircase, Polytechnic Institute, Mu- nich ; Scene from Life of Psyche (1876). Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 589 ; Kunst- Chronik, xi. 801. BERG, ALBERT, born in Berlin in 1825, died at Hallstadt, Austria, Aug. 19, 1884. Landscape painter, pupil at Geneva of Guigon ; studied from nature in southern France, north Italy, and Switzerland ; in 1844 went from Naples with the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg to Malta, Smyrna, and Con- stantinople. Studied, 1846-1848, in Paris and Italy and, on Humboldt's suggestion, went in 1849 to Central and South America, and returned to Berlin in 1850, bringing with him a rich collection of sketches, now, with others from Rhodes and Lycia, in the National Gallery. In 1853-54 hs lived in Rhodes, visited Lycia, and in 1860 joined the Prussian expedition to Eastern Asia. After journeys through the Alpine countries, Scotland and Greece, he spent the winter of 1873-74 in Athens, and in 1878 became 1-14
