CAT'S PAW, Sir Edwin Landseer, Earl of Essex, Cassiobury; wood. A monkey has grasped a cat, and notwithstanding her struggles is using her paw to remove some roasting chestnuts from the top of a hot stove; in background, a table with a kitten upon it beside a basket, out of which another frightened kitten is peeping. British Institution, 1824; sold for £100 and bought a few days afterward by Earl of Essex for £120. Engraved by C. G. Lewis.—Stephens, 52; Landseer Gallery.
CATTANIO, COSTANZO, born in Ferrara
in 1602, died in Rome in 1665. Lombard
school; pupil of Guido; was a bravo, often
in exile or in defiance of the authorities, and
his pictures frequently bear marks of his
character. He painted soldiers and ruffians,
but some of his works are more in keeping
with the style of his master. Among the
latter are a St. Anthony in the church of
Corlo, and a Last Supper in the refectory of
S. Silvestro, Ferrara.—Lanzi, iii. 220; Ch.
Blanc, École ferraraise.
CATTERMOLE, GEORGE, born at
Dickleburgh, near Diss, England, Aug. 8,
1800, died at Clapham Common, July 24,
1868. History painter, water-colours;
studied architecture and became early a
book illustrator, in which he exhibited much
archæological and architectural skill. About
1830 he began to paint in water-colours, became
a member of the Society of Painters
in Water Colours, and contributed to their
exhibitions until 1850, when he withdrew.
He was awarded one of the two first class
medals (the other, Landseer) at Paris in
1855, and was a member of the Royal Academy
of Amsterdam and of the Belgian Society
of Water Colour Painters. Works:
Sir Walter Raleigh witnessing the Execution
of Essex, Old English Hospitality (1839);
The Castle Chapel (1840); Hamilton of Bothwel
Haugh preparing to shoot the Regent
Murray, After the Battle of Newbury (1843);
Visit to the Monastery, Benvenuto Cellini
defending the Castle of St. Angelo (1845);
The Unwelcome Return (1846). In 1862 he
exhibited an oil picture, A Terrible Secret,
at the Royal Academy. Charles Cattermole,
his nephew, paints in both oil and water-*colours.—Redgrave;
Art Journal (1857),
209; (1868), 180; (1870), 92.
CAUCIG, FRANZ, born in Goritz, Dec. 3,
1762, died in Vienna, Nov. 18, 1828. German
school; history painter. First taught in Vienna,
then spent seven years in Italy, where
he studied the Carracci in Bologna and in
Rome. Revisited Italy in 1791, and remained
six years, studying especially Titian in Venice.
In 1799 he was appointed professor and
in 1820 director at the Vienna Academy. His
subjects, taken principally from Greek mythology
and the Old Testament, are academic
in treatment, and though good in
drawing are weak in colour. Works: Solomon's
Judgment, Museum, Vienna; others
at the Academy and in Liechtenstein, Schönborn,
and Czernin Galleries, ib.; Sappho,
Prague Gallery; Death of Portia, Orpheus
at Eurydice's Tomb, Joanneum, Gratz.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., iv. 75; Wurzbach, ii.
312.
CAULITZ, PETER, born in Berlin about
1650, died there in 1719. German school;
landscape and animal painter; studied in
Rome; painted chiefly Italian landscapes
and animal pieces, in the Dutch style.
Works: Chicken Yard, Berlin Museum; Two
Landscapes with Temple Ruins, and Bridge,
Brunswick Museum; others at the Royal
Castles in Berlin and Potsdam.—Allgem. d.
Biogr., iv. 76.
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CAUSIERS. See Cossiers.
CAVAZZOLA, or CAVAZZUOLA. See
Morando, Paolo.
CAVEDONE, GIACOMO, born at Sassuolo
in April, 1577, died in Bologna in 1660.
Bolognese school; son of a poor apothecary,
became page to an art amateur, who placed
him in the school of the Carracci, and afterward
in that of Passarotti. Studied in
