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 painting in oil-colours and gold with the figures of Saint Piat, Saint Eleutherius, the King, Queen, and Dauphin and others. In 1438 he drew cartoons for mural paintings, representing episodes in the life of Saint Peter ; he was paid Bs. for these designs, which were executed by Henry de Beaumetiel in the chapel of Saint Peter. Campin was the master of two celebrated painters : Roger De la Pasture (van der Weyden) and James Daret. No painting can be attributed to him with certainty, but he was probably the painter of a panel representing the blossomintj of Saint Joseph's rod, and the marriage of the B. Virgin in the Prado Museum, Madrid. V. H. J. W.

CAMPING, GiovA>rNi, was bom at Camerino about 1590. He constitutes a remarlcable, if not a solitary, instance of an Italian going out of his own country to study painting. Sandrart, however, assures us that he went to Antwerp, and placed himself under Abraham Janssens, with whom he remained some years, then returned to Italy and studied the works of Caravaggio, whose style of painting greatly resembled that of his Flemish instructor. He painted some pictures at Rome with sufficient success to procure him an invitation to the Spanish Court, where he was employed by the king. He died there in 1650.

CAMPION, Chables Michel, a French amateur by whom we have several plates, was bom at Mar- seilles in 1734, and died there in 1784. Some of his plates are executed with the graver, and some are etched ; amongst them are the following :

Aignan Thomas Desfriches : after Cochin. Francois de Eegny ; after the same. Cardinal Commandon ; C. C. M. de St. Amand ; after JSlle. Loir. Madame de GnillonTille. The Foot Seasons ; after Desfriches. Views of the Harbour and Town of Antibes. Tiew of Slenng-sor-Loire. Views on the banks of the Loire. Views on the banks of the Loiret.

CAMPION, Chaeles Puilippe, Abbe de Tebsan, brother of Charles Michel Campion, was bom at Marseilles in 1736. He engraved several portraits of no great merit, and formed a large collection of books, prints, medals, and antiquities, which were sold after his death, which occurred at Paris in 1819. Among his engravings maybe mentioned two portraits of Montesquieu, and those of N. de Verri, Sauveur-Morand, Alexis Clairaut, the mathe- matician, and the Cardinal Prince Louis de Rohan.

CAMPION, George B., a water-colour land- scape painter, was one of the earliest members of the Institute of Water-Colour Painters, having been elected in 1837, and was a frequent con- tributor to the exhibitions of that society. ' Olden Times' and 'Gathering Orach,' both exhibited at the Institute in 1869, are fair specimens of his art. He was for some time drawing-master at the Military Academy, Woolwich ; but afterwards retired to Munich, where he died in 1870, at the age of 74. He was the author of ' The Adven- tures of a Chamois Hunter,' and he also wrote some notes on German art for the 'Art Journal.'

CAMPIONE, IsiDOBO DA. See Bianchi.

CAMPO, JtJAN, a Spanish painter, was bom of humble parentage at Ita in 1530. After enduring great privation he journeyed to Toledo, and solicited permission to enter the studio of Francisco de Comontes, where he made good progress. One day Don Geronimo de Corella, who had been appointed Bishop of Comayagua in Central America, visited the studio of Comontes, and in the master's absence was received by the pupil, who confidentially told the prelate that on account of his debts he should be obliged to leave the country or go to prison. The bishop thereupon offered to take the painter with him to America to decorate the churches, only upon the condition that he should, when able, pay hia debts. Campo left Spain in 1557, and appears to have painted a considerable number of works, which have been highly praised by travellers, but are totally unknown in Europe. In less than twenty years he had paid all his creditors and acquired a small fortune, with which he was about to return to his native country, when he was attacked by sudden iUnesB, from which he died. His early works, which may be seen in Spain, are imaginative in design, but weak in colour.

CAMPOLARGO, Pedbo de, was a Spanish painter of some repute in Seville in 1660, whose engrav- ings are held in higher estimation than are his paintings.

CAMPOLO, Placido, according to Hackert, in his ' Memorie de' Pittori Messinesi,' was bom at Messina in 1693. He studied at Rome under Sebastiano Conca, where he was more indebted for his advancement to his designs from the antique marbles, and his contemplation of the works of Raphael, than to the precepts of his instructor. On his return to Sicily he distinguished himself as a historical painter, particularly in fresco. One of his principal works is the ceiling of the GaUeria del Senate, at Messina, which is admired for the ingenuity of the composition and the correctness of the design. He died of the plague In the fatal year 1743.

CAMPROBIN, Pedro de, was a Spanish painter of animals, fruit, and flowers, who flourished at Seville about 1660. His flower-pieces are to be seen in several churches in Andalusia ; those which he considered his best are signed Pedro de Camp-robin Pasano fecit.

CAMRADT, JoHAN Ludvig, who was bom at Copenhagen in 1779, and died at Hillerod in 1849, painted flower-pieces.

CAMUCCINI, ViNCEyzo, a liistorical painter, was bom at Rome in 1773. He received his first instruction from his brother Pietro, who was a re- storer of pictures, and also from Borubelli, an engraver of moderate ability ; but he afterwards became a pupil of Corvi, and for some years devoted himself to the study of Andrea del Sarto, Raphael, Domenichino, and other great masters. When twenty-four years of age he produced his great picture of ' The Death of Cffisar,' which was much admired. Soon afterwards, the arrival at Rome of the great French artist David excited Camuc- cini's emulation, and he undertook to produce a series of pictures on subjects taken from the history of ancient Rome, and painted in the classic manner. Among these were :

Horatius Codes. The Departure of Eegolus for Carthage. The Continence of Scipio (!« the Palazzo Reale, Xaples). The Death of Virginia. ( The Death of Cassar.

He also painted : The Incredulity of St. Thomas {in mosaic,i>i SI. Feter'i, at Some). The Presentation in the Temple (in San Giovanni, at Piacenza; esteemed one of hit finest works). The Death of the Magdalen. The Entombment {painted for Charles IV. cf Spain).