BAKKER-KORFF, ALEXANDER HUGO, born at The Hague, Aug. 31, 1824, died in Leyden, Jan. 28, 1882. Genre painter, pupil at The Hague Academy of Kruseman and J. E. J. van den Berg; painted humorous, often satirical, genre and family scenes. Was one of the best modern Dutch artists. Works: Calumny; Sick Woman; The Toast (1864); Reading the Newspaper; Lady at Toilet (1867); Daughter of the Hero; Scrubbing Maid; Bric-à-brac Shop; Seamstress; Clothes Basket (J. Hoey, New York); Old Lady Knitting.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1867), xxiii. 19; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 567.
BALAKLAVA, Mrs. E. Butler, Fine Art
Society, London. After the return from the
"Valley of Death." Central figure, a blood-*besmeared
dismounted trooper, who advances
with clutched sabre and resolute face,
as if still in battle; behind him a sergeant
of the 17th on a chestnut charger, bearing
on his saddle-bow a dead young trumpeter;
at left, riderless horses and various touching
episodes, with the smoke of the Russian
guns behind. Engraved by F. Stacpoole.
BALDASSARE DA REGGIO. See Estense.
BALDOVINETTI, ALESSO, born in
Florence, Oct. 14, 1427, died there, Aug. 29,
1499. Florentine school. Baldinucci considers
him a pupil of Paolo Uccelli. Registered
in the Florentine Guild of St. Luke in
1448, and appears to have had some reputation.
He was an experimentalist in oil medium,
and the ablest mosaist of his age.
Vasari says he was the master of Ghirlandajo.
The works which may safely be assigned
to him are a fresco, with fine landscape background,
Adoration of the Shepherds (1460),
Portico of the Annunziata, Florence; a Madonna
and Saints, and an Annunciation, Uffizi,
Florence; Trinity with Saints, Florence
Academy, and Frescos of Evangelists, Prophets,
and Angels, Chapel of S. Miniato, Florence.—C.
& C., Italy, ii. 372; Meyer, Künst.
Lex., ii. 613; Vasari, ed. Mil., ii. 591, ed. Le
Mon., iv. 74, 101; Eastlake, Materials, etc.,
i. 223; Pierotti, Ricordi di A. Baldovinetti
(Lucca, 1868); Ch. Blanc, École florentine;
Burckhardt, 541; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal.,
i. 312.
BALDUNG, HANS, surnamed Grien
(Grün), born at Gmünd, Suabia, about 1476,
died at Strassburg, in 1545. German school;
history and portrait painter, formed under
influence of Martin Schongauer, judging
from the altar wings in the monastery of
Lichtenthal, near Baden-Baden, painted in
1496, and afterwards under that of Dürer,
whose pupil he may possibly have been in
1507-09; settled at Strassburg in 1509, is
classed as the most remarkable painter of
his time there, and was elected senator in
1545. Temporarily (1511-18) employed at
Freiburg, Brisgau. He obtained his surname
from the peculiar green used in his draperies,
perhaps also from his predilection for
dressing in green stuffs. Works: Two altar
wings (1496), Kloster Lichtenthal, Baden;
Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (1507); Christ
on the Cross, Nativity (1512), Aschaffenburg
Gallery; Deluge (1516), Bamberg Gallery;
Death Kissing a Woman, Death Showing to
Woman an Open Grave (1517), Christ on the
Cross (1512), Basle Museum; Christ on the
Cross, Crucifixion (1512), Adoration of the
Magi, Martyrdom of St. Stephen (1522),
Head of Old Man, Berlin Museum; Death
of Lucretia (1530), Raczynski Gallery, ib.;
Noli me Tangere (1539), Darmstadt Museum;
Triptych with Baptism of Christ, Frankfort
Museum; Great Altar in 11 Panels (1511-16),
Baptism of Christ, Annunciation, Freiburg
Cathedral; Margrave Christoph of Baden,
Margrave's Family Adoring Madonna,
four panels with Martyrdom of the Ten
Thousand, Constantine and Helen Testing
the Cross, Four Saints, Kunsthalle, Carlsruhe;
Palatine Philipp (1517), Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Margrave Christoph of Baden
(1515), Allegorical Figure, Schleissheim Gallery;
Wisdom at the Abyss (1525?), formerly
in Landauer Brüderhaus, Nuremberg; Martyrdom
of St. Dorothea, Prague Gallery;
