Alcohol (1883); La Femme à l'Ibis, La Fille aux Rats (1884).—Chronique des Arts (1884), 191; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 40; ix. 671; x. 646.
BEAUME, JOSEPH, born in Marseilles,
Sept. 24, 1796, died, Sept., 1885. History
and genre painter, pupil in Paris of Gros,
whose classical style he at first followed;
later painted military and historical pictures,
and since 1870 genre subjects. Also painted
portraits and marine views. Medals: 2d
class, 1824; 1st class, 1827; L. of Honour,
1836. In 1836-43 he executed for the Versailles
Museum his principal historical works:
Passage of Rhine at Düsseldorf; Battles of
Diernstein, of Albreto, of Lützen, of Bautzen,
of Oporto, and of Toulouse; Taking of
Halle; Napoleon Leaving Elba. Other works:
Eliezer and Naphtali (1819, Fontainebleau);
Death of Henri III. (1822); The King Drinks
(1828); Death of Grand-Dauphiness in 1690
(1834); Death of Anne of Austria at Val-de-Grace
(1835); Death of Charles V. (1838);
Childhood of Sixtus V. (1839); Hagar in the
Desert (1844); Going out of Church (1846);
Van Dyck (1850); Marguerite (1852); Galileo
in Prison (1853); Flight into Egypt;
Mother of the Family (1872); Hunter's
Breakfast (1877); Sancho Panza (1878).—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 243; Müller, 32;
Ottley.
BEAUMETZ, ÉTIENNE, born in Paris;
contemporary. History and genre painter,
pupil of Cabanel and L. Roux. Medal: 3d
class, 1880. Works: There they are! (1880);
Battalion Leaving for the Frontier (1881);
Brigade Lapasset Burning its Flags (1882);
The Liberators!—1794 (1883); At Champigny—Nov.
30, 1870, The Garrison Leaves
Belfort—1871 (1884); The Bayonet—Champigny,
Dec. 2, 1870, Last Duty (1885).
BEAUMONT, CHARLES ÉDOUARD
DE, born at Lannion, France, in 1821. Genre
painter, pupil of Boisselier; first pictures,
landscapes from neighbourhood of Cernay
and Senlis, in Salons of 1838, 1839, and
1840. Has illustrated several books. Medals:
1870, 2d class, 1873; L. of Honour, 1877.
Works: Bohemians (1853); Dangers of Life
(1855); Andromeda (1866); Circe (1867);
Leda (1868); Perils of Life (1855); Women
Chasing Truth (1868); The Captain's Share
(1868), Luxembourg; Seeking Whom He
Shall Devour, Women are Dear (1870); End
of a Song; Where is Cupid Hiding? (1873);
As Stupid as a Goose, Mad Caps (1874); Nest
of Sirens (1877); Torturers of Cupid, H.
Probasco, Cincinnati.—Meyer, Künst. Lex.,
iii. 246; Müller, 33; Larousse.
BEAUMONT, CLAUDIO FRANCESCO,
Cavalière, born in Turin, June 4, 1694, died
there, July 21, 1766. History painter, studied
in Turin, then in Rome, after the works of
Raphael, the Caracci and Guido, and under
Trevisani; became honorary member of
Academy of S. Luca in 1727, returned to
Turin in 1731, and was made court painter
and (1736) knighted. Works in fresco:
Princely Virtues, Four Ages of Man, Judgment
of Paris, Rape of Helen, Royal Palace,
Turin; Altarpieces in different churches,
ib., and in Rome.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii.
243.
BEAUMONT, Sir GEORGE HOWLAND,
Bart., born at Dunmow, Essex, Nov. 6, 1753,
died at his seat at Coleorton, Leicestershire,
England, Feb. 7, 1827. Pupil of Richard
Wilson; became a respectable amateur
landscape painter. His two landscapes in
the National Gallery are pleasing examples
of the classic school, but cannot lay claim
to striking originality. He was a supreme
authority in matters of taste and of paramount
influence in founding the National
Gallery, to which he bequeathed many valuable
pictures collected in Italy and England.—Cunningham,
vi. 147; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 245; Redgrave.
BEAURY-SAUREL, Mlle. AMÉLIE, born
at Barcelona, Spain, of French parents; contemporary.
Portrait painter, pupil of Tony
Robert-Fleury, Bouguereau, and Giacomotti.
Medal: 3d class, 1885. Works: Portrait of
Léon Say (1880); do. of My Mother (1883).
BEAUVAIS, ARMAND, born at Bar-sur-Aube,
Nov. 30, 1840. Landscape and genre
painter, pupil of Desjobert and of Gérôme.
