- erman, Book of the Artists (1867); Sandby,
i. 189.
COPPO DI MARCOVALDO, of Florence,
13th century. His Madonna enthroned,
called "del Bordone," in S. M. dei
Servi, Siena, said to have been painted in
1261, is in the defective manner of the
period. The colours are darkened by age
and restoration.—C. & C., Italy, i. 200;
Vasari, ed. Mil., i. 265, 266.
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COQUES (Cocx), GONZALES (Gonsalve),
born in
Antwerp in 1618,
died there, April
18, 1684. Flemish
school; portrait
painter, pupil
of Peeter
Brueghel (the
3d) in 1626-27,
later of David
Ryckaert, the elder,
whose
daughter he married, in 1643; was free of
the guild in 1640, and its president in
1665-66 and 1680-81. His portraits, which
are chiefly small, are in the manner of Van
Dyck, whence he is sometimes called the
Little Van Dyck. Clear and harmonious
in his warm, brownish flesh-tones, his touch
is broad and spirited; the backgrounds are
generally the work of other painters. Works:
Family Group, Portrait of a Lady, National
Gallery, London; Verhelst Family, Buckingham
Palace; Music Lesson, Family Group,
Family Portraits, Sir R. Wallace; Family
Group around Piano, Lord Taunton, London;
Elector Frederic of the Palatinate and
Wife, David Teniers, Lord Ellesmore; Family
in Dutch Garden, Mr. John Walter, Bearwood;
Picture Gallery with forty-four Artists'
Portraits, Amsterdam Museum; Female Portrait,
Antwerp Museum; Christ with Mary
and Martha, Arenberg Gallery, Brussels;
Young Scholar and Wife, Cassel Gallery;
Portrait of Cornelis de Bie, Berlin Museum;
Family Group of ten, Nantes Museum;
Portrait of Maria de Haen, Lille Museum;
Group of Artists, Old Pinakothek, Munich;
Family Group, Dresden Gallery; Musical
Assembly, National Gallery, Pesth.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., iv. 471; Biog. nat. de Belgique,
iv. 381; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Cat. de
Musée d'Anvers (1874), 78; Michiels, ix. 30,
246; Rooses (Reber), 379; Zeitschr. f. b.
K. vii. 9.
CORBOULD, EDWARD HENRY, born
in London, Dec. 5, 1815. History painter,
son and pupil of Henry C., painter and designer
(1787-1844); twice won gold medal
of Society of Arts; member of Institute of
Painters in Water Colours. From 1851 to
1872 was teacher of drawing and painting to
children of Queen Victoria. Works: Fall
of Phaëthon (1834); St. George and Dragon
(1835); Greek Chariot-Race (1836); Race
between Atrides and Antilochus (1837);
Woman taken in Adultery (1842); Marriage
of Nigel Bruce and Agnes of Buchan (1870),
Queen Victoria; Lady Godiva (1871); Enid's
Dream (1872); Héloise (1873); Canterbury
Pilgrims (1874); Iris (1878).—Müller, 114.
CORDAY, CHARLOTTE, IN PRISON,
Charles Louis Müller, Corcoran Gallery,
Washington; canvas, H. 3 ft. 5 in. × 2 ft. 8
in. Charlotte Corday, to rid her country of
Marat, obtained an audience and stabbed
him while in his bath. She was guillotined,
July 17, 1793, aged 25 years. Represented
to knees, seen through the iron bars of a
prison window, one of which she grasps
with her left hand, and supports her head
with the right, in which she holds a pen. Engraved
by A. Lamotte. Photogravure in Art
Treasures of America.—Corcoran Gal. Cat.
CORDELIA AND KING LEAR, Theodor
Hildebrandt, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York;
canvas. King Lear, Act IV., Scene 7. Cordelia,
though disowned, still clings to her
father, whom Goneril and Regan, who have his
blessing, have driven to despair and madness.—Art
Treas. of Amer., i. 48.
CORDELIAGHI or CORDELLA, ANDREA.
See Previtali, Andrea.
CORENZIO, BELISARIO, born in Greece
about 1558, died in Naples in 1643. Nea-