PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
BARTLETT, William Henrt. a topographical
landscape painter, was born at Kentish Town in
1809. In 1823 he was articled to John Britton,the
architect, and the author of several well-known
illustrated works on topography. Here — as the
latter in a biographical sketch informs us — Bartlett
in the course of the year surpassed his associates
in accuracy, style, and rapidity. Appreciating his
pupil's talent, Britton sent him successively into
Essex, Kent, Bedfordshire, Wiltshire, and other
parts of England, to sketch and study from nature.
He went next, in a similar way, to Bristol, Gloucester, and Hereford, and executed a series of elaborate
drawings of the sacred edifices there for Britton's
' Cathedral Antiquities of England.' He afterwards
made similar sketches for the work entitled 'Picturesque Antiquities of English Cities.' But Bartlett's
artistic tours were not confined to the British
Empire alone ; they extended to all the four
quarters of the globe. Previous to going abroad,
he travelled over many parts of England, Wales,
Scotland, and Ireland, and next visited France,
Spain, Germany, S tzerland, Holland, and Belgium ; the United States and Canada ; Constan
tinople, Asia Minor, Syria, Italy, Greece, and the
Grecian Archipelago ; Palestine, Egypt, Sinai,
Petra, and the Arabian deserts. He thrice explored the East, first in the years 1834 and 1835,
again in 1842—1846, and a third time in 1853.
He made four voyages to America, between the
years 1836 and 1852. No less than nineteen large
volumes in quarto, containing more than 1000
engravings from his drawings, are devoted to
those countries and districts, nearly the whole of
which contain copious and interesting letter-press
from the pen of Dr. Beattie, who accompanied the
artist in some of his voyages and travels. In
addition to these works, Bartlett showed, in the
following publications, that he could exercise a
skilful pen, as well as a rapid pencil :
Walks about Jerusalem. 1845. Forty Days in the Desert. 184S. The Nile- Boat, or Glimpses of Kgypt. 1849. The Overland Route. 1?50. Footsteps of Our Lord and nis Apostles in Syri.i. Greece, and Italy. 1851. Pictures from Sicily. 1852. The Pilgrim Fathers. 1853.
A new volume, on ' Scripture Sites and Scenes,' was in the press, when the artist died, on board the steamer ' Egyptus ' on its passage homeward between Malta and Marseilles, in 1854.
BARTOLI, DoMENico. See Ghezzi.
BARTOLI, PiETEO Santi. See Santi.
BARTOLI, Taddeo (or Taddeo di Bariolo), was bom at Siena about 1363. The earliest specimen of his art is an altar-piece, representing ' St. Peter,' painted for San Paolo of Pisa, and dated 1390 : it is now in the Louvre. In 1395 he finished an altar-piece of the ' Virgin and Child with Saints,' for a chapel in San Francesco, Pisa, which is now in Vienna; he afterwards adorned the entire chapel with frescoes of the figures of Saints, and the ' Life of the Virgin.' In 1400—1401 Taddeo painted in the Palazzo Pubblico and other buildings in Siena ; but of the works he executed then only nine small panels, representing nine sentences of the Creed, exist. They are in the cathedral. Soon afterwards he decorated the cathedral with frescoes representing Paradise and Hell. There are preserved in the hall of the Palazzo Pubblico, of the same city, two painrings that were formerly in the cathedral ; the first is an altar-piece representing St. Gimignano, with a model of the town in his hand, giving the benediction ; its side panels contain four subjects drawn from that Saint's life ; the second is a panel with a ' Madonna and Child and four Saints.' In 1403 he painted, at Perugia, an altar-piece repre- senting the ' Virgin and Child, with St. Bernard and two Angels,' which is now in the Academy of that city. A ' Descent of the Holy Ghost,' also painted in 1403, in the church of Sant' Agostino at Perugia, where it may still be seen, is especially to be admired. In 1404 Taddeo had again returned to Siena, and recommenced his works at the cathedral, at his former salary of twelve and a half florins a month. These frescoes have all likewise disappeared. In that same year he was appointed an ' Executore di Gabella,' and executed the ' Nativity,' still kept in the church of the Servi at Siena. In 1405 Bartoli executed four frescoes behind the high altar, painted the organ-doors, and filled a window in the clioir of the cathedral with the ' Ascension of the Virgin.' In the years 1406 and 1407 he was occupied at the renewal of the decorations in the chapel of the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, as also in the passage leading from the Hall of Peace to the Hall of Council, in the same building; and he adorned the Gallery with figures of Ancient Romans whose characters symbolized best the virtues of Magnanimity and Justice ; beneath these effigies ran a sentence exhorting the beholders to imitate these virtues. In 1409 Taddeo painted the 'Annunciation,' between SS. Cosmo and Damian, now in the Academy of Siena. In 1410 he went to Volterra, where he worked for the church, and for the Company of San Francesco. Of these labours, all that now remains is an altar-piece, with the ' Virgin, Child, and four Saints,' in the Cappella San Carlo of the cathedral of Volterra. In the years 1412, 1416, and 1420 he was again promoted to the Supreme Council of Siena, and he died in 1436(?). Taddeo Bartoli upheld the Sienese school by the excellence of his painting, but he did not raise it above the style of his predecessors. The chief merit of his work lies in the dignity and originality of the invention. Some of his small pictures do him still greater honour than his larger works, and show an imitation of Ambrogio Loren- zetti, his great prototype, and also the subdued and agreeable style of the Sienese school.
BARTOLINI, Gioseffo Maria, was bom at Imola in 1657, and studied at Bologna under Lorenzo Pasinelli. There are several of his works in the public edifices at Imola, which are highly esteemed, particularly a picture representing a ' Miracle wrought by St. Biagio,' in the church of San Domenico. He died in 1725.
BARTOLO DI FREDI was born at Siena about 1330, and was registered in the Guild of that city in 1355; he had several children, who all died before him, with the exception of Andrea Bartoli. He was the companion of Andrea Vanni from 1353, and was employed in the decorations of the Hall of Council, at Siena, in 1361. In 1362 he went to San Gimignano, where, according to Vasari, he had already in 1356 painted the entire side of the left aisle of the Pieve with scenes drawn from the Old Testament. In 1366 the Council of the city of Gimignano ordered of him a painting, representing ' Two Monks of the Augustine Order,' to be placed in the Palazzo Pubblico, in order to commemorate the settlement of some disputes which had long existed between that order and
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