A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
PORTRAITS.
King Charles I. on Horseback, with the Duke d'Eper- non ; after Van Dyck. Charles I. and Queen, with their two Sons; after the same. The Nassau Family ; from Earl Cowper's picture ; after the same. The Pembroke Family ; from the picture at Wilton ; after the same. Uenry VIII. granting the Cliarter to the Barber- Surgeons* Company ; after Holbein. The Family of Van Dyck ; after Van Dyck; in the Earl of Pembroke*s picture. Robert, Earl of Camarvon ; after Van Dyck ; in the same collection. Anna Sophia, Countess of Carnavon; after the same; in the same collection. George, Prince of "Wales, on Horseback ; after Adolph. Cornells van Tromp, Vice-Admiral of Holland ; after J. Vanderdaiik. Dr. Mead ; after A. Ramsay. The Lord Chancellor Hardwick ; after the same. The Lord Chief Justice Reve ; after J. Amiconi. The Comaro Family; after Titian; the picture is in the possession of the Duke of Northumberland. Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of 'Winchester; after Sogarth.
SUBJECTS AFTER VARIOUS MASTERS.
Nine plates of the Life of Achilles, with the titles ; after Rubens. Belisarius ; incorrectly called after Van Dyck. Charles I. escaping from Hampton Court ; after J. d'Anyelis. Jupiter and Antiope ; after Titian ; for the Crozat Col- lection. This is considered his chef-d'oeuvre. Pan and Syrinx ; after Nic. Bertin. The Card-players ; after D. Teniers. The Temptation of St. Anthony ; after the same The Italian Comedians ; after IVatteau. The Companion ; after the same. The Two Cousins ; after the same. Soldiers plundering a Village ; after the same. The Peasants revenged ; after the same. St. Cecilia ; after Carlo Dolci. Moses exposed on tlie Nile; after Le Sueur. Marriage-a-la-mode ; after Hogarth (two of the plates). BARON, Jean, (or Baronids,) a French en- graver, -who is sometimes called ' Tolosano,' from his birthplace, was born at Toulouse in 1631. He resided the greater part of his life at Rome, where he worked in union with C. Bloemaert, and engraved several plates of historical subjects and portraits. They are executed entirely with the graver in a neat but dry manner, and are not very well drawn. The following are his best works :
PORTRAITS.
Jean Plautavit, Sieur de la Pause, Bishop of Lodeve. Cardinal Aquaviva. Leonardo Alberti, architect. Vito de Bramante, architect. Giovanni Francesco Rustici, sculptor Marc Antonio Raimondi, engraver. Raphael d'Urbino. Leonardo da Vinci.
SUBJECTS AriER VARIOUS MASTERS.
Judith with the head of Holofemes ; after Domenichino. The Stoning of St. Stephen ; after Niccolb dell' Abbate. The Martyrdom of St. Andrew ; after the same. St. Peter and St. Paul in the Clouds; after Aim. Car- racci. The Virgin in Adoration; after Gnido Rem. The Virgin ; a small plate ; after Bernini. St. Romualdus, and Monks ; after Andrea Sacchi. The Plague at Ashdod ; after N. Pomsin.
BARONI, GinSErrE, was an Italian engraver, who resided at Venice about the year 1720. He en- graved some large plates from the paintings of the Venetian masters ; among which is a print repre- senting the ' Crucifixion, with Angels in the air, and St. John and St. Mary Magdalene at the foot of the Cross.' It is executed in a coarse, unpleasing style, and the drawing is very incorrect.
BARONI-CAVALCABO, Kaspar Anton voN.a Tyrolese historical painter, was born at Sacco in 1682. He was instructed in the art by Giovanni Baroni, a kinsman, and by Antonio Baltstra at Verona. He then went to Venice and Rome, where lie studied in the school of Carlo Maratti. He devoted his talents chiefly to biblical and re- ligious subjects, and he presented many of his pic- tures to the churches of Sacco, Trent, and Roveredo. During the greater part of his life he lived in Sacco, where he died in 1759. Many of his draw- ings are in the Library at Innsbruck.
BAROZZl. See BARorci.
BARliA, JoHAN. See Bara.
BAKKABANl), Pierre Paul, a French painter of flowers, birds, and other subjects in natural history, was born at Aubusson in 1767. He studied under Malaine, the designer of the tapestry manu- factory of the Gobelins. Le Vaillant, the cele- brated traveller, employed him to paint the birds of Africa, parrots, and birds of paradise for his works. He also supplied the illustrations for the edition of Buffon published by Sonniiii; for the ' History of Insects,' by Latreille, and for the great work of the Institute on Egypt. He was professor at the Sclioo! of Design at Lyons ; and he executed numerous designs for Sevres porcelain, and decor- ated the dining-room at St. Cloud. He died at Lyons in 1809.
BARRALET, John James, of French extraction, was born in Ireland ; he was in early life a draw- ing-master in Dublin, but came to London and practised water-colour painting. He exhibited three landscapes at the Royal Academy in 1770, and occasionally exhibited in succeeding years. He w.ns employed in illustrating books on Irish Antiquities. In 1795 he emigrated to America, where he died in 1812. His brother, J. Melchior Barralet, was a teacher in the Royal Academy School, and occa- sionally, between the years 1775 and 1789, sent tinted drawings to the Academy Exhibitions.
BARRANCO, Bernardo MARTINEZ del. See Martinez del Barranco.
BARRAS, S^basmen, a painter and engraver, was born at Ais, in Provence, in 1653. He was a pupil of Boyer d'Aguilles, and studied for some time in Rome. He died nt Aix in 1703. The first edition of the Bojer d'Aguilles Collection, pub- lished in 1709, contained twenty-seven plates in mezzotint, scraped by this master ; they were re- placed in the second edition by plates engraved by Coelemans. The former have become very scarce. He also engraved a portrait of Lazarus Maharky- sus, a phjsician of Antwerp, after Van Dyck.
BARRAUD, Henry, a younger brother of William Barraud, was born in 1812. He ex- celled as an animal painter, and in his later life exhibited pictures which were engraved and be- came very popular. The most important of these were, ' We praise thee, God ' (three choir boys in their surplices), 'The London Season' (a scene in Hyde Park), and ' Lord's Cricket Ground.' He died in 1874.
BARRAUD, William, an animal painter, was born in 1810. The family of this artist came over to England from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes ; his father held an
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