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 Coronation of the Virgin, dated 1374, is in the possession of Lord Wensleydale, England. Other examples are in S. Francesco, Pisa, and in the Modena Gallery.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 220; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 25; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., ii. 93.

BAROCCI (Baroccio), FEDERIGO, called also Fiori da Urbino, born at Urbino in 1528, died there, Sept. 31, 1612. Roman school; son and pupil of Ambrogio Barocci; afterward studied under Francesco Menzocchi and Battista Franco at Urbino. In 1548 went to Rome and both studied and copied works of Raphael four years. On return to Urbino painted a St. Margaret and other works which gave him a great reputation. In 1560 he was invited to Rome by Pius IV., and painted in the Vatican with Federigo Zucchero. While thus engaged he was poisoned by his rivals, and so injured that he was never after able to work more than two hours a day. The remainder of his life was chiefly spent at Urbino. Barocci's style resembles that of Correggio, whose works he studied. He was a decided mannerist, able in design, but inferior as a colourist. Among his easel pictures are: Crucifixion, Duomo, Genoa; Descent from Cross (1569), Duomo, Perugia; Madonna del Popolo, Christ and Magdalen, Portrait of Duke of Urbino, Uffizi, Florence; Madonna di S. Girolamo (copy of Correggio), Pitti, Florence; Martyrdom of S. Vitale (1583), Brera, Milan; Annunciation, Ecstacy of St. Michelina, Vatican; Noli me tangere, Palazzo Corsini, Rome; Circumcision (1580), Madonna in Glory, Louvre; Madonna and Saints, Dresden Gallery; Madonna della Gatta, National Gallery, London; two Holy Families and Portrait of a Man, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 27; Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 91; Burckhardt, 759; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne.

BARON, HENRI (CHARLES ANTOINE), born at Besançon, in June, 1816. Genre painter, pupil of Gigoux, made his debut in the Salon in 1840, then visited Italy. Medals: 3d class, 1847, 1855, 1867; 2d class, 1848; L. of Honour, 1859. Works: Sculptor's Studio (1840); Giorgione Painting Gaston de Foix (1844); Andrea del Sarto Painting Madonna del Sacco, Summer Evening (1847); Child Sold by Pirates, Spring in Tuscany (1848); Touch and Hearing, Vintage in the Romagna (1855), Luxembourg Museum; Harlequinade (1857); Painters' Festival at Italian Tavern (1859); Archery in Tuscany (1864); St. Luke's Festival in Venice (1867); The Skaters (1870); His Eminence at his Nephews', Bowlers (1874); Street Corner at Catania (1876); Bébé (1878); Fair Naturalist (Mrs. Paran Stevens, New York); Archer's Rest (C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia); Wine and Mirth (C. P. Huntington, New York); Wild Flowers (J. Hoey, New York).—Larousse, ii. 249; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 32; Müller, 26.

BARRET, GEORGE, born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1732 (1728?), died at Westbourne Green, near London, May 29, 1784. Landscape painter, son of a draper and apprenticed to a stay-maker, but learned to colour prints and became drawing master at the West drawing school in Dublin. Went in 1761 to London, where he became a successful landscape painter, earning, it is said, £2000 yearly. Became master painter to Chelsea Hospital, but died bankrupt and left his family dependent on the Royal Academy, of which he was one of the foundation members. His best works are in the Portland and Buccleugh Collections. His son George (1774-1842) was a water-colour painter, and one of the foundation members of the Water-Colour Society.—F. de Conches, 183; Redgrave; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 40; Sandby, i. 100.