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Thomas, Charlestown, Mass.; Land! Land! Les Adieux (1878); Luck of Roaring Camp (1881); Lovers' Quarrel (1882); Le Pleinairiste, In Normandy (Paris Salon, 1883.)


BADALOCCHIO, SISTO, born in Parma in 1581, died in Bologna in 1647. Bolognese school. By Malvasia called Sisto Rosa; pupil of Annibale Carracci, who took him to Rome and employed him in the Palazzo Farnese. With Lanfranco, who had been his co-disciple in Bologna, he made drawings from Raphael's frescos in the Loggie of the Vatican. After Carracci's death, in 1609, he returned to Bologna, and was later employed in Parma by the family of Este. A good draughtsman, but execution rather sketchy. Work: St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata, Parma Academy.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 527; Malvasia, iii. 517; Burckhardt, 871.


BADIN, JULES JEAN, born in Paris, contemporary. Figure and portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel and Baudry. Employed at national manufactory at Beauvais. Medal, 3d class, 1877. His Queen of Sheba is owned by T. A. Havemeyer, New York.


BADIN, PIERRE ADOLPHE, born at Auxerre, France, in 1805. Genre painter: exhibited nothing after 1848. Medal, 3d class, 1839; Legion of Honour 1849, officer 1855; 1848 to 1850 director of the Gobelins; 1850 to 1860 director of the Beauvais manufactory; 1860 to 1870 again director of the Gobelins. Works: Beggar Seeking Shelter from a Storm (1833); Country Doctor (1839); St. Germain of Auxerre, Eoarix King of the Alans (1844), ordered by State; Defence of St. Jean de Losne against the Spaniards in 1636 (1847); St. Dominic Preaching (1848).—Larousse.


BAEHR, JOHANN KARL, born at Riga, Aug. 18, 1801, died in Dresden, Sept. 29, 1869. Portrait and history painter, pupil of Friedrich Matthäi in Dresden; visited Italy in 1827-29, and returned to Riga, but finding no artistic or intellectual incentive there, settled in Dresden in 1832, and became professor at the Academy in 1840. His Death of Ivan the Cruel is in the Dresden Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., i. 769; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 536; Kunst-Chronik, v. 53.


BAEN, JACOBUS DE, born at The Hague, March, 1672, died in Vienna in 1700. Dutch school; son and pupil of Jan de Baen. In 1688 went to England in suite of William III. and there painted a much admired portrait of the Duke of Colchester. Afterwards went to Florence and painted for the Grand Duke, and later to Rome, where he executed historical and genre pictures. On account of his gigantic proportions he was called the Gladiator by his colleagues in Rome. He afterwards worked in Vienna.—Siret, 58; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 537.


BAEN, JAN DE, born in Haarlem, Feb. 20, 1633, died at The Hague, buried March 8, 1702. Dutch school; portrait painter, pupil of his uncle Piemans at Emden, and of Jacob Backer at Amsterdam; greatly esteemed in his time and employed by the courts of England (where he painted Charles II. and the queen), France, Brandenburg, and Tuscany. Established at The Hague about 1660. Returned from England in 1676, when he is mentioned in the registers of the guild of painters at The Hague. Works: Portraits in most of the public galleries of Holland; one of the best is that of Prince John Maurice of Nassau, National Museum, Amsterdam; Portrait of Himself, Dresden Gallery; portraits in the Schloss, Berlin.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 536; De Stuers, 5.


BAER, MAXIMILIAN, born at St. Johannis near Nuremberg, Aug. 24, 1853. Still life, history, and genre painter, pupil of Nuremberg Art School under Raupp, with whom he travelled in the Bavarian Alps, and of Munich Academy, under Alex. Wagner and Lindenschmit, where he won several prizes.—Müller, 25.

BAGER, JOHANN DANIEL, born at Wiesbaden, in 1734, died Aug. 17, 1815. Portrait, genre, landscape, and fruit painter, pupil of Fiedler in Darmstadt and of Justus