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afterwards returned to Lifle, and applied himfelf to flowers,
wherein he fucceeded to admiration. Monfieur le Brun, having
undertaken the painting of Verfailles, employed Baptift to do
the flower part, wherein he (hewed his excellence, as is yet to
be feen in that palace.
His grace the duke of Montague, being embaflador in France,
arid oblerving the curioufnefs of this painter's works, invited
him over to England, and employed him, in conjunction with
Mcflieurs Roufieau and La Force, to adorn his magnificent
houfe at Bloomfbury, where a great variety of flowers and
fruits of this mafler are to be feen, and thole the beft of his
performances.
There are alfo feveral other pieces of his; but the mod cu-
rious of all is the looking-glafs at Kenfington-houfe, which he
painted for the late queen Mary.
He died in England in the thirty-fixth year of his age, and
lies buried in St. James's.
Francis BARLOW, was born in Lincolnfhire, and, at his
coming to London, put apprentice to one Shepherd, a face-
painter, whom he lived with but few years, becaufe his fancy
did not lie that way, his genius leading him wholly to drawing
of fowl, fifh, and beads, wherein he arrived to th3t perfection,
that, had his colouring and pencilingbeen as good as his draughts,
which are moll exact, he might eafily haye excelled all thofe
that went before him in that kind of painting. He drew
fome cielings of birds for noblemen and gentlemen in the
country.—He alfo drew feveral of the monuments in Weft-
minfter-abbcy, and in Henry Vll's chapel, which were intend-
ed for a large edition of Mr. Kemp's Monumenta Weftmonaf-
terienlia; and died in the year 1702.
Cava!. Gio Franccfco BARBIERI da Cento, called Guer-
cino, born in the year 1590, fcholar of Benedetto Genuari,
lived at Rome and Bologna, excelled in hiftory; died in 1666,
aged feventy-fix years.
Frederico BAROCCI, born in 1528, fcholar of Battifta Ve-
netiano ; fludied Raphael and Correggio ; lived at Urbino and
Rome ; excelled in hiftory, chiefly religious fubjedls; died in
1612, aged eighty-four years.
Dominico BARRIERA, of Florence, who went commonly
by the name cf Dominico Florentino, ufed the mark in plate I,
N°. 12 ; but fome plates he marked with a D. 1647 ; the fame
mark was ufed by Dominico Bonavera, an engraver of Bolog-
ho, and Dominico Bettini, the painter, in his pieces of flowers
and animals.
BASHFULMESS, is reprefented by a virgin, clad all in
white, with a veil over her face of the lame colour j holding a
lily
afterwards returned to Lifle, and applied himfelf to flowers,
wherein he fucceeded to admiration. Monfieur le Brun, having
undertaken the painting of Verfailles, employed Baptift to do
the flower part, wherein he (hewed his excellence, as is yet to
be feen in that palace.
His grace the duke of Montague, being embaflador in France,
arid oblerving the curioufnefs of this painter's works, invited
him over to England, and employed him, in conjunction with
Mcflieurs Roufieau and La Force, to adorn his magnificent
houfe at Bloomfbury, where a great variety of flowers and
fruits of this mafler are to be feen, and thole the beft of his
performances.
There are alfo feveral other pieces of his; but the mod cu-
rious of all is the looking-glafs at Kenfington-houfe, which he
painted for the late queen Mary.
He died in England in the thirty-fixth year of his age, and
lies buried in St. James's.
Francis BARLOW, was born in Lincolnfhire, and, at his
coming to London, put apprentice to one Shepherd, a face-
painter, whom he lived with but few years, becaufe his fancy
did not lie that way, his genius leading him wholly to drawing
of fowl, fifh, and beads, wherein he arrived to th3t perfection,
that, had his colouring and pencilingbeen as good as his draughts,
which are moll exact, he might eafily haye excelled all thofe
that went before him in that kind of painting. He drew
fome cielings of birds for noblemen and gentlemen in the
country.—He alfo drew feveral of the monuments in Weft-
minfter-abbcy, and in Henry Vll's chapel, which were intend-
ed for a large edition of Mr. Kemp's Monumenta Weftmonaf-
terienlia; and died in the year 1702.
Cava!. Gio Franccfco BARBIERI da Cento, called Guer-
cino, born in the year 1590, fcholar of Benedetto Genuari,
lived at Rome and Bologna, excelled in hiftory; died in 1666,
aged feventy-fix years.
Frederico BAROCCI, born in 1528, fcholar of Battifta Ve-
netiano ; fludied Raphael and Correggio ; lived at Urbino and
Rome ; excelled in hiftory, chiefly religious fubjedls; died in
1612, aged eighty-four years.
Dominico BARRIERA, of Florence, who went commonly
by the name cf Dominico Florentino, ufed the mark in plate I,
N°. 12 ; but fome plates he marked with a D. 1647 ; the fame
mark was ufed by Dominico Bonavera, an engraver of Bolog-
ho, and Dominico Bettini, the painter, in his pieces of flowers
and animals.
BASHFULMESS, is reprefented by a virgin, clad all in
white, with a veil over her face of the lame colour j holding a
lily