Louis Joseph Bahin was born on October 6, 1813, in Armentières en Brie/Isles, Seine & Marne France.

[2] Bahin 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 George M. Marshall, which now hangs in the dining-room at Lansdowne, his family mansion.

For example, his painting, Natchez Under the Hill, is exhibited at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia.

[4] 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.