plished his purpose in the law, his first important
pictures being, "Jesus Condemned" (1879), and
"Warren in the Old South" (1880). He then left
painting as an exclusive pursuit to his brother
Darius, while he devoted himself to sculpture. 
Prominent among
his achievements in
this line are: bust
of Benjamin P. Shillaber
(186T); Soldiers
monument, erected
at Cambridge, Mass.,
(1800); "Prospero and
Miranda"(1883); "The
Celtic Bard" (1886);
bust of Gen. Philip
H. Sheridan (1888);
statue of "America,"
heroic size, (1889);
bust of the Rev.
Dr. Phillips Brooks
(1897); bust of Gen.
Horace Binney Sargent,
for the Soldiers'
home in Chelsea
(1898); and a heroic bust of Paul Revere, for
the town hall of Revere, Mass. (1898). In 1896 he
received an order from Governor Wolcott for a
marble bust of the Rev. S. F. Smith, D.D., author
of "America," to be placed in the state house
at Boston. In 1897 he assisted his brother,
Darius, to decorate the banquet hall in the Tuileries,
a new hotel on Commonwealth avenue,
Boston, with panels illustrating the history of
France. Of these, nine in all, Cyrus painted
"Catherine de Medici and Charles IX.," "Henry
IV. at the Battle of Ivry," and "Napoleon and
Lord Witworth." In 1898 he completed a large
alto-relief of Paul Revere starting on his famous
ride, and a large bas-relief of "Prospero and
Miranda," for the Boston art club. He was instructor
of the modelling class for several seasons
at the New England conservatory. He is the
author of: The Veteran of the Grand Army (1870)
and many poems and sonnets, and in 1898 was engaged
in making free-hand portraits for over thirty
original sonnets to the Masters of Art, published
in 1899. He died in Alston, Mass., Jan. 29, 1903.
COBB, Darius, painter, was born at Maiden,
Mass., Aug. 6. 1834; son of the Rev. Sylvanus
and Eunice Hale (Waite) Cobb. With his twin
brother, Cyrus, he attended the Lyman school
of East Boston; afterward studied the classics
under Prof. I. N. Eyers, mathematics at the Norway
liberal institute, and oratory under Wyzeman
Marshall, at the sain.e time studying music,
art and literature. In 1862 the brothers enlisted
in the 44th Massachusetts infantry, doing service
in North Carolina. In their art work their great
instructor was Nature. They also received instruction
from a relative and pupil of Washington
Allston, who imparted to them in their youth
many valuable ideas of that master. Cyrus
chose sculpture and Darius painting. Darius
was art editor of the Boston Traveler, 1872-79,
and became prominent in musical and literary
circles and on the lecture platform. Among his
more noted pictures are: portraits of Louis
Agassiz (1875), and Rufus Choate (1876); "King
Lear" (1877); "Judas in the Potter's Field"
(1877) ; "Christ Before
Pilate" (1878);
"For Their Sakes"
(1879); "Washington
on Dorchester
Heights" (1880);
portraits of Gen. B.
F. Butler (1889), and
Rev. Phillips Brooks
(1893); "Immortality"
(1893); portraits
of John A. Andrew
(1894), and Charles
P. Clark (1897). In
1897, assisted by his
brother Cyrus, he
decorated the walls
of the banquet hall
of the Tuileries,
Boston, with panels
illustrative of French history. Of the nine
panels he painted six: "Jeanne d'Arc"; "An
Intrigue in the Court of Louis XIII."; "Richelieu
and the Mayor of Rochelle"; "A Troublesome
Edict of Louis XIV."; "The Storming of the
Tuileries"; and "The Downfall of the Second
Empire." In 1898 he painted two large pictures
for the town hall at Revere, Mass., the subjects
being scenes in the ride of Paul Revere.
COBB, David, soldier, was born in Attleboro, Mass., Sept. 14, 1748; son of Thomas and Lydia (Leonard) Cobb ; grandson of Morgan and Esther (Hodges) Cobb; and great-grandson of Austen Cobb of Taunton, Mass., who received a deed of his farm there in 1679. David was graduated from Harvard in 1766 and practised medicine at Taunton, Mass. He was secretary of the Bristol county convention of 1774, delegate to the provincial congress at Concord, 1770; entered the Continental army as lieutenant-colonel of Jackson's regiment, and served in New Jersey and Rhode Island, 1777-78. He was on the staff of General Washington as aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel, entertained the French officers, and negotiated with the British commander for the evacuation of New York. He received the brevet of brigadier-general in 1783; on returning
