A writer in the Mail and Express says:  “Miss Beaux has approached the task of painting the society woman of to-day, not as one to whom this type is known only by the exterior, but with a sympathy as complete as a similar tradition and an artistic temperament will allow.  Thus she starts with an advantage denied to all but a very few American portrait painters, and this explains the instinctive way in which she gives to her pictured subjects an air of natural ease and good breeding.”

Miss Beaux’s picture of “Brighton Cats” is so excellent that one almost regrets that she has not emulated Mme. Ronner’s example and left portraits of humans to the many artists who cannot paint cats!

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BECK, CAROL H. Mary Smith prize at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1899.  Fellow of above Academy and member of the Plastic Club, Philadelphia.  Born in Philadelphia.  Studied in schools of Pennsylvania Academy, and later in Dresden and Paris.

Miss Beck paints portraits and her works have been frequently exhibited.  Her portraits are also seen in the University of Pennsylvania, in the Woman’s Medical College, Philadelphia, in Wesleyan College, at the capitols of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and other public places, as well as in many private homes.

Miss Beck edited the Catalogue of the Wilstach Collection of Paintings in Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.

BECKINGTON, ALICE.

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BEERNAERTS, EUPHROSINE. Landscape painter.  In 1873 she won a medal at Vienna, in 1875 a gold medal at the Brussels Salon, and still other medals at Philadelphia (1876), Sydney (1879), and Teplitz (1879).  She was made Chevalier de l’Ordre de Leopold in 1881.  Mlle. Beernaerts was born at Ostend, 1831, and studied under Kuhner in Brussels.  She travelled in Germany, France, and Italy, and exhibited admirable landscapes at Brussels, Antwerp, and Paris, her favorite subjects being Dutch.  In 1878 the following pictures by her were shown in Paris:  “Lisiere de bois dans les Dunes (Zelande),” “Le Village de Domburg (Zelande),” and “Interieur de bois a Oost-Kapel (Holland).”  Other well-known works are “Die Campine” and “Aus der Umgebung von Oosterbeck.”

BEGAS, LUISE PARMENTIER. Born in Vienna.  Pupil of Schindler and Unger.  She travelled extensively in Europe and the Orient, and spent some time in Sicily.  She married Adalbert Begas in 1877 and then established her studio in Berlin.  Her subjects are landscape, architectural monuments, and interiors.  Some of the latter are especially fine.  Her picture of the “Burial Ground at Scutari” was an unusual subject at the time it was exhibited and attracted much attention.

Her rich gift in the use of color is best seen in her pictures of still life and flowers.  In Berlin, in 1890, she exhibited “Before the Walls of Constantinople” and “From Constantinople,” which were essentially different from her earlier works and attracted much attention.  “Taormina in Winter” more nearly resembled her earlier pictures.