BAKOCCI f Coronation of the Virgin, dated 1374, is in the possession of Lord Wensleydale, Eng- land. Other examples are in S. Francesco, Pisa, and in the Modena Gallery. C. & C., Italy, ii. 220 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 25 ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., ii. 93. BAEOCCI (Baroccio), FEDERIGO, called also Fiori da Ur- bino, born at Ur- bino in 1528, died there, Sept, 31, 1612. Ro- man school ; son and pupil of Arn- brogio Barocci ; afterward stud- ied under Fran- cesco Menzocchi and Battista Franco at Urbi- no. Ill 1548 went to Rome and both stud- ied and copied works of Raphael four years. On return to Urbino painted a St. Margaret and other works which gave him a great rep- utation. Iii 15GO 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. Ba- rocci's style resembles that of Correggio, whose works he studied. He was a de- cided mannerist, able in design, but in- ferior as a colourist. Among his easel pict- ures are : Crucifixion, Duomo, Genoa ; De- scent from Cross (15G9), Duomo, Perugia ; Madonna del Popolo, Christ and Magdalen, Portrait of Duke of Urbino, Uffizi, Flor- ence ; Madonna di S. Girolamo (copy of Correggio), Pitti, Florence ; Martyrdom of S. Vitale (1583), Brera, Milan ; Annuncia- tion, 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 Gal- lery, London ; two Holy Families and Por- i trait of a Man, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 27 ; Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 91 ; Burckhardt, 759 ; Ch. Blanc, Kcole ombrienne. BARON, HENRI (CHARLES ANTOINE), born at Besan9on, 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 Gas- ton de Foix (1844); Andrea del Sarto Paint- ing Madonna del Sacco", Summer Evening (1847) ; Child Sold by Pirates, Spring in Tuscany (1848) ; Touch and Hearing, Vin- tage 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 Comer at Catania (1876) ; Bt'be (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, Kflnst. Lex., iii. 32 ; M filler, 26. BARRET, GEORGE, born in Dublin, Ire- land, in 1732 (1728 ?), died at Westbourne Green, near London, May 29, 1784. Land- scape painter, son of a draper and appreu-
- ticed 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 suc- cessful 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 foun- dation members. H ; s 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 Con- ches, 183 ; Redgrave ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex ,
iii. 40 ; Sandby, i. 100.
