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 Bust Portrait of Young Man (1515), Vienna Museum; Holy Family, Academy, ib.; The Ages of Man in Six Female Figures, Madonna (1530), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Adam and Eve (attributed to Cranach), Schönborn Gallery, ib.; Adam and Eve (1507, copies after Dürer's in Madrid Museum), Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Male Portrait (1539?), Hampton Court Gallery; Age and Youth (?, attributed to Antonello da Messina), Royal Institution, Liverpool.—Allgem. d. Biog., ii. 17; Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Keane, Early Masters, 192; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 617; Woltmann, D. Kunst im Elsass, 278; W. & W., ii. 440; Zeitschr. f. b. K., i. 257, 283; viii. 321.

BALEN, HENDRIK VAN, born in Antwerp in 1575, died there, July 17, 1632. Flemish school; history painter, pupil of Adam van Noort; studied for some years in Italy; afterwards influenced by Rubens, and even by Van Dyck, his pupil, who painted his portrait. Member of St. Luke's Guild in 1593, and dean of it in 1609-10. His ecclesiastical subjects are less satisfactory than his mythological, to which Jan Brueghel supplied landscape backgrounds. Cold in feeling, mannered in attitudes, glassy in colouring; in nude figures pleasing, and in melting style of execution very finished. Works: Banquet of the Gods, Louvre; Concert of Angels, St. John Preaching, Holy Trinity, Antwerp Museum; Holy Family, Cathedral, ib.; Trinity, Christ on the Cross, Adoration of the Shepherds, Flight into Egypt, Resurrection, portraits of himself and wife, St. James's, ib.; Fecundity, Brussels Museum; The Seasons' Offering to Cybele, Naiads filling Horn of Plenty, Gods of Olympus, National Museum, Amsterdam; Diana and Actæon (landscape by Brueghel), Cassel Gallery; Gathering of Manna, Moses Striking the Rock, Brunswick Gallery; Smithy of Vulcan (landscape by Brueghel), Berlin Museum; St. Jerome, Banquet of the Gods, Bacchanal, Diana Resting after the Chase, Four Seasons (landscapes in last seven by Brueghel), Nymphs loading Mules with Game (animals by Snyder), Pinakothek, Munich; Diana and Nymphs (landscape by Brueghel), Wedding Feast of Bacchus and Ariadne, do. of Peleus and Thetis, Diana and Actæon, Dresden Gallery; Assumption, Rape of Europa, Vienna Museum; Holy Family, Madonna, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Marriage of the Virgin, Uffizi, Florence. His son and pupil, Jan (1611-54), painted history and landscapes; went early to Italy, where he studied the works of Albani, returned to Antwerp in 1642, and was influenced by Rubens. Works: Trinity, St. James's, Antwerp; Garden of Love (copy after Rubens's in Madrid Museum), Holy Family, Vienna Museum.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, i. 665, 668; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Branden, 478; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 642; Michiels, vii. 253; Revue d'hist. et d'archéol., i. 108; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 55; Rooses (Reber), 152.

BALESTRA, ANTONIO, born at Verona, in 1666, died there, April 21, 1740. Venetian school; pupil of Giovanni Zeffio, then of Antonio Bellucci, and afterward, at Rome, of Carlo Maratti. Lived long at Venice and at Verona, where he executed many works. He was a clever engraver and a reputable painter, and his pictures are held in considerable estimation. Examples of his work are found in Verona in the Duomo, S. Zeno Maggiore, S. Bernardino, S. Niccolò, S. Sebastiano, S. M. in Organo, S. M. del Paradiso, and S. Tommaso Cantuariense; and in Venice in