- 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).
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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