Johann (Kaspar) Benedikt Beckenkamp, who was born in 1747 in the valley of Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz, studied under his father Lorenz Beckenkamp and Jan Zick, at Koblenz. At first he devoted himself to painting landscapes, after C. G. Schütz; but afterwards changed to portraiture. He settled at Cologne, and imitated with success the style of painting of the old German masters. He died in that town in 1828. Several portraits by him are in the Wallraf Museum, Cologne. For the church of Santa Maria in Littore, Cologne, he painted a copy of a Pietà— once in that church, and now in the Stadel Gallery — formerly ascribed to Schoreel, but now given to Mabuse.
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This article incorporates text from the article "BECKENCAMP, Caspar Benedict" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1889 publication now in the public domain.
Biography at the History Portal of Landschaftverband Rheinland (in German language)
Biography at the Portal of EPOCHE NAPOLEON (in German language)
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