- er during the second half of the 18th century.
Court painter; honorary member of S. Fernando Academy in 1765, director in 1788. Works: Twenty-five religious, mythological, and allegorical paintings in Museo del Prado, Madrid. Frescos: Fall of the Giants, Apotheosis of Hercules, Conquest of Granada, etc., Palacio Real, ib.; Religious Subjects, Chapel-Royal, Aranjuez; Life of St. Eugenius, Toledo Cathedral; many in the cathedral and other churches at Saragossa. His brother and pupil, Don Ramon, born at Saragossa in 1746, died at Aranjuez, March 1, 1793, assisted him in many of his works, especially the frescos at Saragossa Cathedral.—Bermudez; Madrazo, 353; Stirling, iii. 1257.
BAYKOFF, FEODOR, died at Tiflis,
Russian Transcaucasia, in 1877. Landscape
and genre painter, pupil of St. Petersburg
Academy; travelled in the Caucasus in 1846
and afterwards in southern Russia. Works:
Circassian Caravan (1873); paintings in
cathedral and theatre at Tiflis.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 171.
BAZIN, CHARLES LOUIS, born in
Paris, April 3, 1802, died there, Jan., 1859.
History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil
of Girodet-Trioson, and of Gérard. Medals:
3d class, 1844; 2d class, 1846. Works:
Peter the Great in France (1842); Christ
on Cross (1843); Louis XIV. and Mme.
de Maintenon (1844); Tribute Money (1845);
Girl with a Lizard (1846); Ecce Homo
(1849); Dissolution of Parliament by Louis
XIV. (1853).—Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), iv.
308.
BAZZACCO (Bozzacco, Bozzato), born
about 1500, died about 1570. Venetian
school. Proper name Giovan Battista Ponchino.
A native of Castelfranco, whence
sometimes called Bazacco da Castelfranco.
Vasari, who calls him Brazacco, says he had
charge of the decorations of the grand hall
of the Council of Ten in the Palazzo Ducale,
Venice (after 1552), and that his associates
were Battista Zelotti and Paolo Veronese.
The Neptune on his Chariot, the Mercury,
and the Venice, with broken chains in her
hands, looking to Heaven, are among the
frescos there attributed to him. Blanc says
that his work does not pale beside that of his
brilliant coadjutors. His picture of Christ
in Limbo (1552), S. Liberale, Castelfranco, is
superior to any other work of art in that city,
save the pictures of Giorgione. Bazacco,
after the death of his wife, became an ecclesiastic
with the title of Monsignore.—Ch.
Blanc, École vénitienne; Vasari, ed. Mil.,
vi. 594, 595; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 176.
BAZZANI, GIUSEPPE, born in Mantua,
about 1690, died there, Aug. 17, 1769.
Pupil of Giovanni Canti, of Parma, but
formed himself by studies after Mantegna,
Paolo Veronese, and especially Rubens,
whom he took for his model, and soon surpassed
his early master. Painted many
altarpieces and frescos for churches in Mantua;
one of the best is the Dream of St.
Romualdo, in S. Barnabà.—Meyer, Künst.
Lex., iii. 177.
BAZZI, GIOVANNANTONIO. See Sodoma.
BEALE, MARY, born in Suffolk in 1632,
died in London, Dec. 28, 1697. Daughter
of Rev. Mr. Cradock, of Walton-on-Thames;
married Mr. Beale, a painter and colour
maker. Pupil of Sir Peter Lely, who obtained
for her permission to copy many of
Van Dyck's finest works. Painted portraits
in oil, water-colour, and crayon; was
also reputed as a poet. Her portraits of
Cowley, Tillotson, Duke of Norfolk and
Charles II. are in the National Portrait Gallery,
and of Archbishop Tillotson in Lambeth
Palace.—Redgrave; Meyer, Künst.
Lex., iii. 231.
BEARD, JAMES H., born in Buffalo,
N. Y., in 1814. Animal painter. He painted
portraits for many years in the West, Henry
Clay and President John Quincy Adams
being among his sitters. Exhibited Carolina
Emigrants at the National Academy in
1846. Elected N. A. in 1871. Studio in
New York. Works: A Peep at Growing
Danger (1871); The Widow (1872); Mutual
