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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;