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 BALZE ited pictures of his own in the Salon. Legion of Honour, 1873. Works : Saint Cecilia, Christ Calming the Tempest (1849), .bought by State ; Apotheosis of St. Louis (1855), bought by State. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., ii. 661. BALZE, (JEAN ETEENNE) PAUL, bom in Kome, Aug. 25, 1815, died in Paris, March 2G, 1884. History painter, pupil of Ingres, for whom he and his brother Ray- mond copied in Italy the most important works of Raphael. In 18G1 he invented a new process of painting on glazed tiles. Medal, 1863 ; Legion of Honour, 1873. A copyist, with little originality. Among his own works are : Stoning of St. Stephen (1861); Coronation of the Virgin, St. Sym- phorien, Versailles ; Vision of Ezekiel (1864); fresco paintings in court of Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris ; Combat between Fitz-James and Roderick Dim ; paintings in the churches of St. Roch and La Trinite. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., ii. 660. BAMBERGER, FRITZ, born in Wiirz- burg, Oct. 17, 1814, died in Neuenhain, near Frankfort, Aug. 13, 1873. Landscape painter, pupil in 1828 of Berlin Academy, then of the marine painter Krause, and in Cassel under Primavesi. "Went to Munich in 1831 ; visited Normandy in 1845, Eng- land, France, and Spain in 1851, and Spain in 1858 and 1868. Works: Battlefield of Hastings, Views of Gibraltar, Algesiras, and Granada. A series of his paintings in Schack Gallery, Munich. Allgem. d. Biogr., ii. 38 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., ii. 665 ; Kunst- Chronik, ix. 41. BAMBINI, NICOLO, Cavaliere, born in Venice in 1651, died there in 1736. Vene- tian school; pupil of Mazzoni, and in Rome of Maratti. After his return to Venice princi- pally imitated Liberi, who was then the fashion. Works : Fulvia's Revenge, Cassel Gallery ; Achilles, Royal Palace, Potsdam. Meyer, Ktinst. Lex., ii. 666 ; Zanetti, Pitt. Venez., 431. BAMBOCCIATE. See Cerquozzi. BAMBOCCIO. See Laar. BANNISTER, E. M., born at St. An- drews, New Brunswick, in 1833. Laud- scape painter ; studied at the Lowell Insti- tute and under Dr. Rimmer in Boston, painting many years in that city. His Under the Oaks received a medal at Phil- adelphia, 1876. Studio in Providence. Works : Storm (1879). BANQUET OF THE CIVIC GUARD, B. van der Heist, National Museum, Amster- dam; represents a company of trained bands, twenty-five figures, life-size, full-length. The Spanish Ambassador is shaking hands with one of the principal figures. Sir J. Reynolds says : "This is, perhaps, the first picture of portraits in the world." Beechey, Reynolds' Works, ii. 197. BARABAS, NICOLAUS, born at Markos- falva, Transylvania, Feb. 22, 1810. Portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, and of Marko ; travelled then in Moldau and Wal- lachia and visited Rome. In 1837 he be- came member of the Pesth Academy, and since 1842 has travelled all over Europe. Is noted for his ideal female figures ; has painted more recently several historical and genre scenes. Works : Portraits of Pala- tines Joseph and Stephen, Baron Vesselenyi, Bishop Pyrker, Gen. Gorgei, Gen. Klapka. Brockhaus, ii. 464 ; Wurzbach, i. 147. BARABINO, NICCOLO, born at Pier dArena, near Genoa, Italy, in 1833. His- tory painter ; studied in Florence, where he won reputation with his first picture, Con- solatrix Afflictorum, painted, 1859, for the hospital at Savona. His principal work is the Death of Pope Boniface VUL Mailer, 25. BARBALONGA, JUAN DE. See Ver- meyen. BARBARA, ST., Palma Vecchio, S. M. For- mosa, Venice ; altarpiece in six panels. St. Barbara standing with her palm and crown on a pedestal flanked by two pieces of can- non, on central panel ; SS. Anthony, Sebas- tian, Dominic, and John Baptist on sides ; the Virgin bending over the dead body of Christ, on the pinnacle. Painted for altar 98