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.Patti Carr Black, ''Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980'', Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998, p. 9

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Career

Bahin exhibited his paintings in

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, Southern France, from 1832 to 1845. Bahin became a landscape painter and portraitist in the Antebellum South, especially in

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, and painted many members of the Southern aristocracy. 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

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. Other paintings can be found at the

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, and the Western Reserve Historical Society in

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.Smithsonian Institution: Louis Joseph Bahin
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Personal life and death

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

Paintings

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

References

1813 births 1857 deaths People from Armentières People from Natchez, Mississippi French emigrants to the United States 19th-century French painters 19th-century American painters French male painters American male painters Painters from Mississippi 19th-century French male artists 19th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1810s-stub