JJALKX Bust Portrait of Young Man (1515), Vienna Museum ; Holy Family, Academy, ib. ; The Ages of Man in Six Female Figures, Madon- na (1530), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Adam and Eve (attributed to Cranach), Schonboru Gallery, ib.; Adam and Eve (1507, copies after Diirer's in Madrid Museum), Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Male Portrait (1539?), Hampton Court Gallery ; Age and Youth (?, attributed to An- tonello da Messina), Royal In- stitution, Liverpool. Allgem. d. Biog., ii. 17 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole allemande ; Keane, Early Masters, 102 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., ii. G17; Woltmanu, D. Kunst im Elsass, 278 ; W. & W., ii. 440 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K., i. 257, 283 ; viii. 321. BALEN, HENDIUK VAN, born in Ant- werp in 1575, died there, July 17, 1G32. Flem- ish school ; his- tory painter, pu- pil of Adam van Noort ; studied for some years in Italy ; afterwards influenced by Ru- bens, and even by Van Dyck, his pu- pil, who painted his portrait. Member of St. Luke's Guild in 1593, and dean of it in 1G09-10. His ec- clesiastical subjects are less satisfactory than his mythological, to which Jan Brueghel supplied landscape backgrounds. Cold in feeling, mannered in attitudes, glassy in col- ouring ; in nude figures pleasing, and in melting style of execution very finished. Works : Banquet of the Gods, Louvre; Con- cert 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 Aetux>n (landscajMj 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), Nymplis 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 Actrcon, Dresden Gallery; Assumption, Rape of Europa, Vienna Mu- seum ; Holy Family, Madonna, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Marriage of the Virgin, Uf- fizi, Florence. His son and pupil, Jan (1G11-54), painted history and landscapes; went early to Italy, where he studied the works of Albaui, returned to Antwerp in 1G42, and was influenced by Rubens. Works: Trinity, St. James's, Antwerp ; Garden of Love (copy after Rubens's in Madrid Mu- scum), Holy Family, Vienna Museum. Biog. nat. de Belgique, i. CG5, G68 ; Ch. Blanc, cole flamande ; Branden, 478 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., ii. 642 ; Michiels, vii. 253; Revue d'hist. et d'arclu'ol., i. 108 ; Rie- gel, Beitriige, ii. 55 ; Rooses (Reber), 152. BALESTRA, ANTONIO, born at Verona, in 1GGG, died there, April 21, 1740. Venetian school; pupil of Giovanni Zeffio, then of An- tonio Bellucei, 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 Moggiore, S. Bernardino, S. Niccolo, S. Sebastiano, S. M. in Organo, S. M. del Paradise, and S. Tonirnaso Cautuariense ; and in Venice in 95
