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 the exhibitions of which till his death he was a frequent contributor. His pictures, which generally represented children and dogs, were much rt-produced and were very popular. Some of the best- known were, ' Once Bitten, Twice Shy,' ' The Oi der of the Bath,' 'In Disgrace," Sweethearts,' 'Trust,' and 'A special Pleader.' During twenty-five years Barber executed a large number of pictures for Queen Victoria. He painted most of Her Majesty's favourite doss, combining many with a group of her grandchildren. His last picture, painted for the Queen in the year of his death, represented her in her pony-carriage surrounded by her grand- children. Barber lived chiefly in London, and died there in 1894.

BARBER, Chbistophee, who was born in 173ri, was a celebrated miniature painter of his time, and was especially careful in the preparation of his colours. He was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and an occasional contributor to the Royal Academy, where, in 1808, he exliibited a portrait of himself in his seventy-first year. He died in Marylebone in 1810.

BARBER, John Vincent, the son of an artist at Birmingham, made drawings for ' Graphic Illustra- tions of Warwickshire,' which was published in 1829, and exhibited landscapes at the Royal Aca- demy from 1812 to 1830. It is believed that he died at Rome soon after the latter year.

BARBER, Thomas, born in Nottingham about 1768, practised in the midland counties as a por- trait painter for many years. In 1819, while residing at Derby, he exliibited at the Royal Aca- demy a portrait of Mrs. Siddons. He died at Nottingham in 1843.

BARBER-BEAUMONT, John Thomas. See Beadmont.

BARBIANI, Andrea. This painter was bom at Ravenna about the year 1680, and is supposed by Lanzi to have studied under Cesare Pronti. He painted history in the style of that master, and there are several of his works in the churches and public edifices of Ravenna and Rimini, which prove him to have been an artist of considerable ability. Among his most esteemed productions is ' The Four Evangelists,' in the cupola of the cathedral of Ravenna. He died at that city in 1754.

BARBIANI, Giovanni Battista, was a native of Ravenna, and flourished about the year 1635. It is not said under whom he studied, but from his manner it is probable that he was a scholar of Bartolommeo Cesi. His chief works in oil are his ' St. Andrea ' and ' St. Giuseppe,' in the church of the Franciscans, and his ' St. Peter ' in Sant' Agata, at Ravenna. His best work in fresco is the ' Assumption of the Virgin,' in the cupola of the chapel of the Madonna del Sudore, in the cathedral at Ravenna, which Lanzi sa^'S may be looked at with pleasure, even after seeing the cupola, by Guido, in that city.

BARBIE, Jacques, (or Babbieb,) an engraver, who worked in Paris from 1735 to 1779, and executed among others the following portraits: Louis XVI. when Dauphin ; bust in profile. Catharine 11. of Russia ; after J. C. de Mailly.

Joseph II. of Austria. 1777. Charles III. of Spain. General AYolfe ; after Sir Joshua Reynolds.

BARRIER, Jean Jacques Fban'(ois le. See Lebabbier.

BARBIER, Nicholas Alexandre, a French landscape painter, was born in Paris in 1789. He at first executed architectural subjects, but after- wards joined the realistic school of landscape painting, and exhibited a great number of works at the Paris Salons from 1824 to 1861. He died at Sceaux in 1864.

BARBIER-VALBONNE,JACQnEsLDC,a French historical and portrait painter, was bom at Nismes in 1769. He was a pupil of David, and painted several subjects from Roman history, and others of a less heroic kind ; also portraits of the distin- guished generals of France. In the Gallery of Versailles are portraits, bj' him, of Moreau and Moncey. He died at Passy in 1860.

BARBIERE, Alessandro del. See Fei.

BARBIERE, Domenicodel. See Del Baebiere.

BARBIERI, Francesco, caDed Da Legnano, was bom in a fortress called Legnano, in the vicinity of Brescia, in 1623. He was first intended for the profession of arms, but having evinced a great desire of becoming a painter, he was placed under Bernardino Gandini. He did not long continue with that master, but became a scholar of Pietro Ricchi. who had studied under Guido Reni. He painted history and landscapes, both in oil and in fresco ; and in all his works showed a ready invention, and a wonderful facility of execution. He died at Verona, according to Orlandi. in 1698.

BARBIERI, Giovanni Francesco, (called GuebCINO, squint-eyed,) was born of humble parentage at the small town of Cento, in the Ferrarese terri- tory, in 1591. Such was the early indication he gave of uncommon genius, that before he was ten years old he painted a figure of the Virgin on the fayade of his father's house, which would have been considered as a very extraordinary pro- duction, even at a more mature age. He was a pupil of Zagnoni at Cento, and of Cremonini and Gennari at Bologna. But he was, in a great measure, the disciple of his o^'n genius and of nature. It is probable that he derived some advantage from studying the celebrated picture by Lodovico Carracci, at the Capuchins at Cento, of which lie always spoke in terms of the highest admiration. The works of Guercino are distin- guished by three different styles, which he followed at different periods of his life. In his early works he seems to have been seduced into a violent and daring contrast of light and shadow, from the extraordinary estimation in which the pictures of Caravaggio were at that time held ; and though he is always superior to that master in design and dignity of character, his first productions were infected with the vitiated principles, and something of the vulgarity, of that painter. After ha^ang -isited Bologna, Venice, and Ferrara, and having made a stay of some duration in Rome, he changed his manner ; and his second style is distinguished by a grander and more elevated taste of design, more amenity and sweetness in his colouring, a fine expression in his heads, and an extraordinary relief, without the aid of harsh and violent con- trast. Such is his masterpiece, the celebrated picture of 'St. Petronilla,' in the Gallery of the Capitol, Rome : it w.as formerly in a chapel in St. Peter's, and is now represented by a copy in mosaic ; such are also the ' Aurora,' which he painted in fresco in the casino of the Villa Ludovisi, Rome, his ' St. William of Aquitaine assuming the garb of a Monk,' in the Bologna Gallery, his ' Dido ' in the Spada Gallery, Rome ; and to his best time also belong his ' Angels weep-