Louis Joseph Bahin

Louis Joseph Bahin (October 6, 1813 – June 27, 1857) was a French-born American painter in the Antebellum South who painted landscapes and portraits.

Biography Bahin was born on October 6, 1813, in Armentières. He exhibited his paintings in Marseille, Southern France, from 1832 to 1845. He also painted politician John A. Quitman in a full-body portrait which was commissioned by the Natchez local government. 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.

Prior to his move to the United States, Bahin married to Fanny Josephine Carementrand—a native of Mantua—having two sons together. and his great-great-great grandson is actor and screenwriter Justin Monjo.

Paintings Uyatt Crittenden Webb Family, Georgetown, Kentucky 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) 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) 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)