PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
flourished about the year 1770. He was chiefly
employed in engraving portraits.
BATONI, PoMPEo GiBOLAMO, (or Battoni,) who was born at Lucca in 1708, at first followed the profession of his father, who was a goldsmith ; he was aftenvards sent to Rome to study painting under Conca and Masucci, but his chief lessons in art were derived from study of the works of Raphael. A peculiar grace and agreeableness, par- ticularly about his heads, rendered his pictures exceedingly popular, and his works were held in considerable estimation all over Europe. It was fortunate for the reputation and success of Ba- toni, that he lived at a period when the arts had fallen to a very 'ow ebb in Italy. Mengs, his only rival, and his superior, was chiefly employed in Spain ; Batoni was thus the only painter of his time at Rome that possessed the least pretension to merit, and he consequently met with great employment. He was more occupied in painting portraits than historical works, although there are several of his pictures in the public edifices at Rome. He painted the portraits of no less than twenty-two sovereigns. Batoni died at Rome in 1787. The following are among his best works :
Berlin. Museum. Dresden. Gallery. Florence. Uffzi. Frankfort. Stadel. Milan. Brera. Paris. Louvre. Rome. Corsini Pal. „ 5. Maria Mag. „ S. Maria H ) Angeli. ( Vienna. Belvedere. Cupid and Psyche {signed and dated 1756). Penitent Magdalene {copied, in 1757, 1)1/ Dietrich for Frederick II., King of Prussia). And others. Education of Achilles. Achilles at the Court of Lycomedes. His own Portrait. The five Arts {signed and dated 1T40). Madonna and Saints. The Virgin. Natirity. Annunciation. Fall of Simon Magus. Return of the Prodigal Son. „ „ Portrait of Joseph II. A Life of Batoni, by Boni, was published at Rome in 1787.
BATTAGLIE, Michelangelo delle. See Cerquozzi.
BATTEM, Gebhaed van, (or Bathem,) a Dutch landscape painter, who flourished about the year 1650, and died at Amsterdam in 1690. It is sup- posed that he was a pupil of Rembrandt, as some of his pictures bear a resemblance to that master's manner. His subjects are mountainous landscapes with banditti, travellers, and stag-hunts.
BATTISTELLO. See Caracciolo.
BATTY, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert, the son of Dr. Batty of Hastings, was bom about 1789. He was at one time in the Grenadier Guards, with which regiment he served in the campaign of the Western Pyrenees, and at Waterloo. He was an amateur artist of considerable merit. He published in 1822 'French Scenery;' in 1823 'German Scenery ' and ' Welsh Scenery ; ' in 1826 ' Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium, and Holland,' all of which have been much esteemed ; in 1828 ' Hanoverian, Saxon, and Danish Scenery ; ' and in 1832 ' Select Views of the principal Cities of Europe.' He died in London in 1848.
BAUDESSON, Nicolas, a French flower painter, was bom about 1611, and received into the Academy in 1671. He died at Paris in 1680, leav- ing a son, Jean FRANgois Baudesson, born in Paris in 1640, who was also a painter of flowers I and fruit. He became a member of the Academy in 1689, and died in Paris in 1713.
BAUDET, Etienne, an eminent French en- graver, was bom at Vineuil, in the department of Loir-et-Cher, about 1636. He was a pupil of Sebastien Bourdon and Cornells Bloemaert, and afterwards went to Rome, and appears to have adopted the manner of Cornells Bloemaert in his earliest plates, which are executed entirely with the graver. He aftersvards on his return to Paris altered his manner, and calling in the assistance of the point, he executed his best prints, which bear a strong resemblance to the manner of Jean Baptiste Poilly. He made an excellent choice in the subjects of his plates, which are from the works of some of the most distinguished masters of Italy and France. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Paris, in which city he died in 1711. The following are his principal works :
PORTRAITS.
Pope Clement IX. Charles Perrault; af/er C. Le Bmn. Louisa, Duchess of Portsmoath, as Yenus, caressing a Dove ; after E. Gascar. Bust of the Emperor Adrian, from the antique. Bust of a Roman Lady.
SUBJECTS AFTER VARIOUS MASTERS.
The Virgin teaching the Infant Jesus to read ; after Albani. The Woman of Samaria ; after the same. Four plates of the Loves of Venus and Adonis ; after the same ; engraved at Rome in 1672. Four circular prints of the Four Elements ; after the same ; dated 1695. The Nativity ; after J. Blanchard. The Holy Family ; after S. Bourdon ; round. Six Landscapes ; after the tame. The dead Christ on the Bjiees of the Virgin Mary ; after Anuibale C'arracH. The Stoning of Stephen ; after the same. 1677. Adam and Eve ; after Domenichitio ; very fine. Six — Of the great Staircase at Versailles ; after Le Brun ; that of the ceiling is engraved by C. Sim- moneau. The Commimion of the Primitive Christians ; after C. de la Fosse. Moses treading on the Crown of Pharaoh ; after N. Poussin. Moses striking the Rock ; after the same. The Worshipping of the Golden Calf ; after the same. The Holy Family ; after the same. Yenus reposing ; after the same ; dated 1666. Four Grand Landscapes ; after the same ; dedicated to the Prince of CouAi. Dated 1684. Four otlier Grand Landscapes ; after the same ; dedicated to the King of France. The Tribute Money ; after Valentin.
BAUDITZ (or Bacdies). See Pauditz.
BAUDOUIN, Pierre Antoine, the son of Michlx Baudouin, an engraver of little note (who died in 1754), was born in Paris in 1723. He was a pupil and imitator of Boucher, whose younger daughter he married in 1758, and through whose influence he was elected an Academician in 1763, as a miniature painter, on which occasion he presented his drawing of ' Hj-perides pleading the cause of Phryne before the Areopagus,' now in the Lou'STe. Baudouin executed idyllic and erotic subjects in water-colours and crayons, but painted but seldom in oil. He died in Paris in 1769.
BAUDOUIN, Simon Rene. This amateur engraver, who was born in 1723, was an officer in the French Guards, and amused himself with the point. He etched a set of plates from his own designs, representing the military exercise of the
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