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  • ceeded in his studio at Wittenberg and as

burgomaster. Many works attributed to the elder were doubtless painted by the younger Cranach, whose only certain pictures are those dated after his father's death (1553). Works: Christ taken Captive (1538), Vienna Museum; Hunt (1544), Vienna and Madrid Museum; John Baptist preaching (1549), Brunswick Gallery; Adoration of Shepherds, Crucifixion, Conversion of Paul (after 1553), Stadtkirche, Wittenberg; The Lord's Vineyard (1569); Resurrection (1554); Crucifixion (1557), Leipsic Museum; Raising of Lazarus (1558); Married Couple (1564), Vienna Museum; Conversion of Paul, Maurice Chapel, Nuremberg; several in Dresden Gallery and Historical Museum.—Allgem. Biogr., iv. 562; Dohme 1i.; Kugler (Crowe), i. 195; W. & W., ii. 432.


CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE, born at Alexandria, Va., March 8, 1813. Landscape painter; studied in Italy in 1846-48, lived and painted in Paris and Italy in 1853-63. Professional life in America passed in New York and Boston. Elected N.A. in 1864, but has not exhibited since 1871. Mr. Cranch has also illustrated books; he is at present living in Cambridge, Mass. Works: Afternoon in October (1867); Washington Oak, opposite Newburg, N. Y. (1868); Val de Moline—Amalfi, Italy (1869); Roman Citizen, Forest of Fontainebleau—Study, Neapolitan Fisherman, Venice (1870); Venetian Fishing-Boats (1871).


CRANE, BRUCE, born in New York in 1857. Landscape painter, pupil of A. H. Wyant. First exhibited at the National Academy in 1879. Studio in New York. Works: Landscape—Autumn, T. B. Clarke, New York; Hillside, Old Mill Pond—Long Island (1879); On the Shrewsbury River, After the Rain (1880); Moor—Nantucket, Inlet on the Jersey Shore, Morning in Spring—Long Island (1881); In Blossom Time, Suburban Road—East Hampton, Study from Nature—East Hampton (1882); Winter (1883); The Waning Year (1884); Indian Summer, A Moor—Dartmouth, Mass. (1885).



CRANE, WALTER, born at Liverpool in 1845. Genre painter; son and pupil of Thomas Crane, portrait painter, and student of W. J. Linton. In 1871 went to Italy and remained two years. Although he paints in oil and water-colours, he is best known by his admirable illustrations for children's books, such as "Beauty and the Beast," "Baby's Opera," "Cinderella," "Goody Two Shoes," etc. Works: Herald of Spring (1873); Plato's Garden (1875); Renaissance of Venus (1877); Proserpine (1878); Haworth Castle, The Sirens (1879); La Cucumela—Sorrento, Truth and the Traveller (1880); Europa, The Laidley Worm of Spindleton Heugh (1881); Dunstanborough Castle, Fate, Tiber, Pisa (1882); Diana and the Shepherd, Sea-Blooms (1883); Bridge of Life (1884); Pandora, Freedom, Loch Bar, Aros Bridge—Isle of Mull, Aros Moor, ib., Cliff at Swanage Bay—Dorset (1885); Skeleton in Armour, frieze of dining-room, Miss C. L. Wolfe, Newport, R. I.


CRATINUS, painter, of Athens. Pliny says (xxxv. 40 [139]), that he painted in the Pompeion. He was the father and master of Irene. Clein. Alexandr. Strom., iv. 124.


CRATO, monochromatic painter, of Sicyon, early period.—Athenag. Leg. pro Christ., 14 (59, ed. Dechair).


CRANK, CHARLES ALEXANDRE, born at Douchy (Nords), Jan. 27, 1819. L. of Honour, 1881. Works: Annunciation, Assumption, Visitation (1877); St. Vincent de Paula led to Heaven by Faith, Hope, and Charity (1878); Two Scenes in Life of St. Vincent de Paula (1879); Portrait of Artist's Father (1880); St. Francis de Sales presenting Vincent de Paula to his Order (1882); Infancy of the Holy Virgin (1883); Vincent