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 *er during the second half of the 18th century. Court painter; honorary member of S. Fernando Academy in 1765, director in 1788. Works: Twenty-five religious, mythological, and allegorical paintings in Museo del Prado, Madrid. Frescos: Fall of the Giants, Apotheosis of Hercules, Conquest of Granada, etc., Palacio Real, ib.; Religious Subjects, Chapel-Royal, Aranjuez; Life of St. Eugenius, Toledo Cathedral; many in the cathedral and other churches at Saragossa. His brother and pupil, Don Ramon, born at Saragossa in 1746, died at Aranjuez, March 1, 1793, assisted him in many of his works, especially the frescos at Saragossa Cathedral.—Bermudez; Madrazo, 353; Stirling, iii. 1257.

BAYKOFF, FEODOR, died at Tiflis, Russian Transcaucasia, in 1877. Landscape and genre painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy; travelled in the Caucasus in 1846 and afterwards in southern Russia. Works: Circassian Caravan (1873); paintings in cathedral and theatre at Tiflis.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 171.

BAZIN, CHARLES LOUIS, born in Paris, April 3, 1802, died there, Jan., 1859. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Girodet-Trioson, and of Gérard. Medals: 3d class, 1844; 2d class, 1846. Works: Peter the Great in France (1842); Christ on Cross (1843); Louis XIV. and Mme. de Maintenon (1844); Tribute Money (1845); Girl with a Lizard (1846); Ecce Homo (1849); Dissolution of Parliament by Louis XIV. (1853).—Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), iv. 308.

BAZZACCO (Bozzacco, Bozzato), born about 1500, died about 1570. Venetian school. Proper name Giovan Battista Ponchino. A native of Castelfranco, whence sometimes called Bazacco da Castelfranco. Vasari, who calls him Brazacco, says he had charge of the decorations of the grand hall of the Council of Ten in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice (after 1552), and that his associates were Battista Zelotti and Paolo Veronese. The Neptune on his Chariot, the Mercury, and the Venice, with broken chains in her hands, looking to Heaven, are among the frescos there attributed to him. Blanc says that his work does not pale beside that of his brilliant coadjutors. His picture of Christ in Limbo (1552), S. Liberale, Castelfranco, is superior to any other work of art in that city, save the pictures of Giorgione. Bazacco, after the death of his wife, became an ecclesiastic with the title of Monsignore.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 594, 595; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 176.

BAZZANI, GIUSEPPE, born in Mantua, about 1690, died there, Aug. 17, 1769. Pupil of Giovanni Canti, of Parma, but formed himself by studies after Mantegna, Paolo Veronese, and especially Rubens, whom he took for his model, and soon surpassed his early master. Painted many altarpieces and frescos for churches in Mantua; one of the best is the Dream of St. Romualdo, in S. Barnabà.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 177.

BAZZI, GIOVANNANTONIO. See Sodoma.

BEALE, MARY, born in Suffolk in 1632, died in London, Dec. 28, 1697. Daughter of Rev. Mr. Cradock, of Walton-on-Thames; married Mr. Beale, a painter and colour maker. Pupil of Sir Peter Lely, who obtained for her permission to copy many of Van Dyck's finest works. Painted portraits in oil, water-colour, and crayon; was also reputed as a poet. Her portraits of Cowley, Tillotson, Duke of Norfolk and Charles II. are in the National Portrait Gallery, and of Archbishop Tillotson in Lambeth Palace.—Redgrave; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 231.

BEARD, JAMES H., born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1814. Animal painter. He painted portraits for many years in the West, Henry Clay and President John Quincy Adams being among his sitters. Exhibited Carolina Emigrants at the National Academy in 1846. Elected N. A. in 1871. Studio in New York. Works: A Peep at Growing Danger (1871); The Widow (1872); Mutual