Balthasar Beschey

1708 — 1776

Flemish painter (1708-1776)

Balthasar Beschey was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and decorative painter of interiors. He started his career as landscape painter but later on switched to history and portrait painting. He played a prominent role in the development of the Academy of Arts in Antwerp and as a teacher.

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Balthasar Beschey

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Entombment of Christ

Garden of love

Landscape with mills and carts

Venus and Adonis

A Hermit at Prayer

Fishmarket

Judgement of Paris (nach einem Stich von Raphael Sadeler d. Ä.)

La Commedia dell'Arte

Madonna and Child with the infant St. John the Baptist and St. Elisabeth

Salomon receives the Queen of Sheba

The Adoration of the Magi

The Adoration of the Shepherds

The Death of Cleopatra

The Entombment of Christ

The Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist

The Rest on The Flight into Egypt

Venus und Adonis

Réunion familiale près d’un portique

Portrait of the painter Martinus Josephus Geeraerts

Allegory of the Eyesight and the Sense of Touch

Allegory of the Hearing, the Taste and the Smell

The wickedness of mankind and the ark of Noah (Genesis 7)

The holy family with Saint John in a landscape

Joseph Sold by his Brothers

The Story of Jacob and his Sons

The Viceroy of Egypt Receives Joseph's Brothers

Portrait of Balthasar I Moretus

Saint Paul and Saint Anthony

Self-Portrait

An elegant company traditionally identified as the wedding of Jacob Johannes Cremers (+ 1786), all seated and making music on a terrace, a village and lake in the distance

The liberation of St Peter from his chains

Pieter de Clercq and his wife Agatha Stockelaar

A Monk

Gentleman in Oriental Costume

Justice

Peace

Portrait of a Woman

Two Monks in a Rocky Cave

Adoration of the Magi

Adoration of the Magi

Minerva visiting the Muses

Miriam takes up a tambourine and dances; all the women follow her (Exodus 15:19)

Miriam takes up a tambourine and dances; all the women follow her (Exodus 15:19-21)

Moses strikes the rock twice in front of the assembled people and water gushes out; the people quench their thirst (Exodus 17:6-7)

Neptun and Amphitrite

Saint John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness

The assumption of the Virgin Mary

The Holy Family with St. John in a landscape

The meeting of Abram [Abraham] and Melchizedek, the high priest and king of Salem, who brings bread and wine (Genesis 14:18-24)

The meeting of David and Abigail, who kneels before him and brings him supplies for his men (1 Samuel 25:23)

The Queen of Sheba comes before Solomon with a large following bringing numerous gifts (1 Kings 10:1-2 ; 2 Chronicles 9:1-2)

The raising of Lazarus

The seven Acts of Mercy

Virgin and child and St. Catharine of Alexandria

With his people safe on the shore, Moses raises his hands and causes the water to return; Pharaoh's army perishes in the water of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:26-27)

The adoration of the golden calf (Exodus 32:1-25)

Portrait of Guilielmus Philippus de Herzelles (1684-1744), Abbot of the Sint-Geertrui- abbey in Leuven and 13nd Bisschop of Antwerp

Eliezer gives Rebekah a ring and bracelets at the well (Genesis 24:22-23)

The finding of Moses

The gathering of manna (Exodus 16:17)