Louis Joseph Bahin

Louis Joseph Bahin
Born 1813
Died 1857
Residence Natchez, Mississippi
Occupation Painter

Louis Joseph Bahin (1813-1857) was an American painter in the Antebellum South.

Biography

Early life

Louis Joseph Bahin was born in 1813.[1]

Career

He 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.[2]

His work can also be found in public galleries and museums. For example, his painting, Natchez Under the Hill, is exhibited at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia.[3] Other paintings can be found at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg, Virginia, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson, Mississippi, and the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio.[4]

Death

He died in 1857.[1]

Paintings

References

  1. 1 2 3 Patti Carr Black, Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998, p. 93
  2. Lansdowne Plantation
  3. Morris Museum of Art: Southern Collection
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Smithsonian Institution: Louis Joseph Bahin


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