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 CAT'S PAW, Sir Edwin Landseer, Earl of Essex, Cassiobury; wood. A monkey has grasped a cat, and notwithstanding her struggles is using her paw to remove some roasting chestnuts from the top of a hot stove; in background, a table with a kitten upon it beside a basket, out of which another frightened kitten is peeping. British Institution, 1824; sold for £100 and bought a few days afterward by Earl of Essex for £120. Engraved by C. G. Lewis.—Stephens, 52; Landseer Gallery.

CATTANIO, COSTANZO, born in Ferrara in 1602, died in Rome in 1665. Lombard school; pupil of Guido; was a bravo, often in exile or in defiance of the authorities, and his pictures frequently bear marks of his character. He painted soldiers and ruffians, but some of his works are more in keeping with the style of his master. Among the latter are a St. Anthony in the church of Corlo, and a Last Supper in the refectory of S. Silvestro, Ferrara.—Lanzi, iii. 220; Ch. Blanc, École ferraraise.

CATTERMOLE, GEORGE, born at Dickleburgh, near Diss, England, Aug. 8, 1800, died at Clapham Common, July 24, 1868. History painter, water-colours; studied architecture and became early a book illustrator, in which he exhibited much archæological and architectural skill. About 1830 he began to paint in water-colours, became a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, and contributed to their exhibitions until 1850, when he withdrew. He was awarded one of the two first class medals (the other, Landseer) at Paris in 1855, and was a member of the Royal Academy of Amsterdam and of the Belgian Society of Water Colour Painters. Works: Sir Walter Raleigh witnessing the Execution of Essex, Old English Hospitality (1839); The Castle Chapel (1840); Hamilton of Bothwel Haugh preparing to shoot the Regent Murray, After the Battle of Newbury (1843); Visit to the Monastery, Benvenuto Cellini defending the Castle of St. Angelo (1845); The Unwelcome Return (1846). In 1862 he exhibited an oil picture, A Terrible Secret, at the Royal Academy. Charles Cattermole, his nephew, paints in both oil and water-*colours.—Redgrave; Art Journal (1857), 209; (1868), 180; (1870), 92.

CAUCIG, FRANZ, born in Goritz, Dec. 3, 1762, died in Vienna, Nov. 18, 1828. German school; history painter. First taught in Vienna, then spent seven years in Italy, where he studied the Carracci in Bologna and in Rome. Revisited Italy in 1791, and remained six years, studying especially Titian in Venice. In 1799 he was appointed professor and in 1820 director at the Vienna Academy. His subjects, taken principally from Greek mythology and the Old Testament, are academic in treatment, and though good in drawing are weak in colour. Works: Solomon's Judgment, Museum, Vienna; others at the Academy and in Liechtenstein, Schönborn, and Czernin Galleries, ib.; Sappho, Prague Gallery; Death of Portia, Orpheus at Eurydice's Tomb, Joanneum, Gratz.—Allgem. d. Biogr., iv. 75; Wurzbach, ii. 312.

CAULITZ, PETER, born in Berlin about 1650, died there in 1719. German school; landscape and animal painter; studied in Rome; painted chiefly Italian landscapes and animal pieces, in the Dutch style. Works: Chicken Yard, Berlin Museum; Two Landscapes with Temple Ruins, and Bridge, Brunswick Museum; others at the Royal Castles in Berlin and Potsdam.—Allgem. d. Biogr., iv. 76.

CAUSIERS. See Cossiers.

CAVAZZOLA, or CAVAZZUOLA. See Morando, Paolo.

CAVEDONE, GIACOMO, born at Sassuolo in April, 1577, died in Bologna in 1660. Bolognese school; son of a poor apothecary, became page to an art amateur, who placed him in the school of the Carracci, and afterward in that of Passarotti. Studied in