Louis Joseph Bahin

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Louis Joseph Bahin
Natchez under the Hill by Bahin, 1852, oil on canvas, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
BornOctober 6, 1813 (1813-10-06)
Armentières, Nord, France
DiedJune 27, 1857(1857-06-27) (aged 43)
Mississippi, U.S.
OccupationPainter
SpouseJosephine Carementrand

Louis Joseph Bahin (1813–1857) was a French-born American painter in the Antebellum South.

Early life

Louis Joseph Bahin was born on October 6, 1813, in Armentières en Brie/Isles, Seine & Marne France.[1][2]

Career

Bahin exhibited his paintings in Marseille, Southern France, from 1832 to 1845.[2]

Bahin became a landscape painter and portraitist in the Antebellum South, especially in Natchez, Mississippi, and painted many members of the Southern aristocracy.[1] For example, he did a portrait of planter Levin R. Marshall and his son, George M. Marshall, which now hangs in the dining-room at Lansdowne, their family mansion.[3]

His work can also be found in public galleries and museums. For example, his painting, Natchez Under the Hill, is exhibited at the

Cleveland, Ohio.[5]

Personal life and death

Bahin was married to Josephine Carementrand.[2] He died on June 27, 1857, in Mississippi.[1][2]

Paintings

  • Uyatt Crittenden Webb Family, Georgetown, Kentucky (circa 1835).[5]
  • Henry LeGrand Conner (1803-1848) (circa 1840s).[5]
  • Portrait of a Young Girl (circa 1840–50).[5]
  • Louis Joseph Bahin (1813-1857) (1847).[5]
  • Gustave Joseph Bahin (1841-1913) (circa 1848).[5]
  • Portrait of George M. Marshall, I (1848-1857).[5]
  • Young Lady in a French Kitchen (1852).[5]
  • Mrs Louis Joseph Bahin (1811-1861). (1852).[5]
  • Henry Clay (1852).[5]
  • Natchez Under the Hill (1852).[5]
  • Mary Savage Conner Blake (1827-1893) (circa 1852).[5]
  • Anna Frances Conner (1835-1852) (circa 1852).[5]
  • Joseph Dunbar Shields (1854).[5]
  • Young Man in the Bahin Family (1854).[5]
  • Mrs. Miles Harper (Samantha Ford) (1859).[5]
  • John Ford Harper (1859).[5]
  • Truman Holmes, Jr. (1864).[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c Patti Carr Black, Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998, p. 93 [1]
  2. ^
    OCLC 761506027
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  3. ^ Lansdowne Plantation
  4. ^ "Morris Museum of Art: Southern Collection". Archived from the original on 2014-10-28. Retrieved 2014-10-15.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Smithsonian Institution: Louis Joseph Bahin