Biography from Morris Museum of Art:
| The following biography has been provided by Karen Towers Klacsmann, Adjunct Assistant Curator for Research, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
Louis Joseph Bahin was born in Armentieres, France, in 1813. He married Fanny Josephine Caremantrand of Mantua, Italy, and resided in Paris where their two sons, Gustave and Alphonse, were born. He exhibited portraits at the National Museum of the Louvre in 1848 and 1850. The family immigrated to New Orleans and then established their permanent residence in Natchez, Mississippi, circa 1852.
From his studio, located above the Insurance Building on Pearl Street, Bahin earned his livelihood painting portraits and was one of the few resident painters in antebellum Natchez who had trained in France. Best known for his portraits, he also executed landscape paintings. He died in Natchez on June 27, 1857, and is buried there.
Portraits by Bahin are included in the following collections: the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg, Virginia; the Natchez Trace Collection at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin; the Old Capitol Museum of Mississippi History in Jackson, Mississippi; and the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. A landscape by the artist is in the collection of the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
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