Il Cerano, born at Cerano, near Novara, in 1557, died at Milan in 1633. Lombardo-Milanese school; history painter; pupil of Procaccini, then studied in Rome and Venice and settled in Milan, where he was patronised by the Duke and by Cardinal Federigo, and made member of the Academy, and employed as architect, sculptor, and painter. Apart from occasional mannerism, his style is free and spirited. Works: Assembly of Franciscans; Christ crowned with Thorns (ascribed to Correggio), Berlin Museum; Christ appearing to SS. Peter and Paul, Vienna Museum; Madonna del Rosario, Brera, Milan; Baptism of St. Augustine, S. Marco, Venice.
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CRESPI, GIUSEPPE MARIA, called Lo Spagnuolo, born in Bologna in 1665, died there in 1747. Bolognese school; history and portrait painter; pupil of A. M. Toni, D. M. Canuti, C. Cignani, and G. A. Burrini. Painted in Venice, Parma, and Modena, and executed works in Palazzo Pitti, Florence, for Grand Duke Ferdinand. Works: Holy Family, Portrait of Old Man, Palazzo Pitti; his own portrait, Uffizi, Florence; St. Stanislaus, Gesù, Ferrara; St. Anthony the Abbot, S. Niccolò, Bologna; Madonna with Saints, Bologna Gallery; Madonna, Ecce Homo, and 11 others, Dresden Museum; Weeping Nun, Munich Gallery; School, Louvre; Holy Family, Death of St. Joseph, his own portrait, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Chiron teaching Achilles to Shoot, Æneas and Cumean Sibyl, Vienna Museum.
CRESTI, DOMENICO. See Passignano.
CRESWICK, THOMAS, born in Sheffield,
England, Feb. 5, 1811, died at Bayswater,
Dec. 28, 1869. Pupil in Birmingham
of J. V. Barber; went in 1828 to London
and began to exhibit Welsh and Irish
scenes, and after 1840 views from North of
England; became A.R.A. in 1842 and R.A.
in 1851. His Pathway to the Village Church
(1839) is in the National Gallery. Other
works: Pleasant Way Home (1846), Passing
Showers (1849), Wind on Shore (1850), Old
Trees (1850), Mountain Lake—Moonrise
(1852), Across the Beck (1864), Changeable
Weather (1865).—Redgrave; Cat. Nat.
Gal.; Athenæum, 1870; Art Journal (1856),
141; Sandby, ii. 289.
CRETIUS, KONSTANTIN, born at Brieg,
Silesia, Jan. 6, 1814. Genre, history, and
portrait painter, pupil of Berlin Academy
under Wach; went in 1839 to Brussels,
Paris, and Italy; in Rome until 1842, and
after his return to Berlin painted a number
of historical genre pictures. In 1846 Frederick
William IV. sent him to Constantinople
to paint a portrait of Sultan Abdul Medjid.
In 1860 he became a member of the
Berlin Academy, and afterwards professor.
Works: Contest with the Syrinx (1836);
Greek Emigrants (1836); Jacob Mourning for
Joseph (1838); Ave Maria, Vintage at Ischia,
Italian Beggar, Notary Public, Pettifogger
(1839-42); The Savoyards, Odalisque, Siesta,
Flower Festival in Genzano, Carnival in
Rome, Adorning the Bride, A la bella vista,
Tourists in Switzerland (1842-59); Resurrection
(1859); Louis XIV. and Maria Mancini
playing Chess (1859); Cromwell and
the Independents; Salzburg Protestants in
Berlin in 1732; Knighting of Prince Albrecht
of Prussia; Order of St. John in the
Schleswig-Holstein Campaign; Aiding Christians
in Syria; Louis XIV. in Parliament
(1870); Cromwell prevented from Embarking
for America (1874); On Wedding Trip to
Italy, Tourists in Switzerland (1876); Refreshing
Draught (1839), Captured Cavaliers
before Cromwell (1867), National
Gallery, Berlin.—Brockhaus, iv. 673; Müller,
119; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 39.
CREVALCORE. See Antonio da Crevalcore.
CRISCUOLO, GIOVANNI FILIPPO,
born at Gaeta about 1510, died in Naples in
1584. Neapolitan school; pupil of Andrea
da Salerno; afterward studied with Perino
