Jan Karel Donatus van Beecq

Temple of the Sun in Tenochtitlan, engraving by Van Beecq.

Jan Karel Donatus van Beecq (1638 – 19 May 1722) a Dutch marine painter, who was born at Amsterdam about 1640, established himself in Paris about 1680, and became a member of the Academy in 1681. He died, probably in Amsterdam, in 1722. Some of his sea-pieces have been engraved by Fouard.

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This article incorporates text from the article "BEECQ, Jean Charles Dominique" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.