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Baptism of the Prince Imperial (1857, unfinished); Return of the Troops from the Crimea; Pierrot's Dull; The Bacchante; Damocles (1872); Study for the Volunteers of 1793, Boston Museum of Fine Arts.—Claretie, Peintres, etc. (1882), 337; Larousse; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvi. 101.


COX, DAVID, born near Birmingham, April 29, 1783, died at Harborne Heath, near Birmingham, June 7, 1859. Landscape painter in water-colours; began as a scene painter in Birmingham Theatre; went in 1803 to London, where he became a teacher of drawing, sketching with his pupils in Wales during the summer months. He removed to Hereford in 1815, returned to London in 1827, and settled at Harborne Heath in 1844. He was an excellent landscape painter, and his works command high prices. Among them are: Weald of Kent, Hop Gatherers, Welsh Funeral, Chat Moss, Besom Makers, Deer Stalking, Windsor Castle, Vale of Clwyd.—Solly, Memoir (London, 1873); Hall, Life (London, 1881); Portfolio (1873), 89.


COX, DAVID, born at Dulwich, near London, in 1809, died at Streatham Hill, Dec. 4, 1885. Landscape painter, water-colours; son and pupil of the preceding. Associate of Society of Painters in Water Colours. Works: View on the Menai (1872); Loch Katrine, Ben Lomond (1873); Rain on the Berwyn, Sunday Morning in Wales (1875); Path up the Valley, Lyndale, On the Dee (1877); Penshurst Park, Hayfield (1878); On the Beach at Hastings (1882).


COX, KENYON, born at Warren, O., Oct. 27, 1856. Figure painter; studied first in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, later, pupil in Paris of Carolus Duran and Gérôme. Visited Europe in 1877, and remained in France with short intermissions until 1882. Member of Society of American Artists. Studio in New York. Works: Head of Venetian Girl (1879); Lady in Black (1880); Pink and White (1881); Two Portraits (1882); Afternoon, Thistledown (1883); A Corner Window (1884).


COXCYEN (Cocxie, Coxis), MICHIEL VAN, born in Mechlin in 1499, died there March 5, 1592. Flemish school; pupil of his father, and of Bernhard van Orley, whom he succeeded as court painter to Mary of Hungary; afterward studied several years in Rome, where he was called the Flemish Raphael. Also painted much in Brussels. He left numerous works of unequal merit. His compositions, frequently closely imitated from Raphael, show much taste and beauty in the heads, but the attitudes are artificial and exaggerated. Works: Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (1575), do. of St. Blasius and St. George (3), St. Margaret, Triumph of Christ, Antwerp Museum; Death of Virgin, Christ crowned with Thorns, Last Supper, Brussels Museum; Birth of Virgin, Presentation of do., Death of do., St. Cecilia, Madrid Museum. His copy of the great altarpiece of the Van Eycks, the Adoration of the Lamb, made for Philip II. in 1559, is partly in the Berlin Museum, partly in the Munich Gallery, and partly in Ghent Cathedral. His son and pupil, Raphael van Coxcyen, guild of St. Luke 1585, had less talent than his father.—Allgem. d. Biogr., iv. 537; Biog. nat. de Belgique, iv. 456; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Brockhaus, iv. 653; C. & C., Flemish Painters, 66, 196; Michiels, v. 217; Nagler, Mon., iv. 526.



COYPEL, ANTOINE, born in Paris, April 11, 1661, died there, Jan. 1, 1722. French school; history painter, pupil of his father Noël, with whom he went to Rome in 1672, and received a prize from the Academy of St. Luke. After three years he re-