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 failed to attain the skill of his disciple Antonello da Messina. Domenici, who is little to be trusted, gives the above dates of his birth and death, and attributes to him a triptych, dated 1375, in S. Antonio Abate, Naples; a second picture in two parts, supposed to have formerly been dated 1436, one part in S. Lorenzo, Naples, the other in the Naples Museum; and a fresco in S. Angelo a Nilo, Naples. C. & C., however, doubt if there ever was a Colantonio, and think it possible that Summonzio may have confounded him with Antonello da Messina.—C. & C., Italy, i. 322, 334; do., N. Italy, ii. 82; Vasari, ed. Mil., ii. 585; ed. Le Mon., i. 163, iv. 95; Lanzi, ii. 4; Burckhardt, 523; Domenici, Vite de' Pittori, etc., Napoletani; Ch. Blanc, École napolitaine.

COLAS, ALPHONSE, born at Lille, Sept. 24, 1818. French school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Souchon. Medals, 3d class, 1849, 1863. Director of School of Painting at Lille. Works: Calling of St. James (1869), St. James's, Douai; France in 1870-71 (1872); Portraits (1877, 1879, 1880, 1883).

COLE, GEORGE, born at Portsmouth in 1810, died in London, Sept. 7, 1883. Landscape painter, self-taught; began as a portrait and animal painter in Portsmouth; exhibited first in London in 1840; member in 1850 of the Society of British Artists, of which he became vice-president. Works: Surrey Harvest (1864); Pride and Humility; Loch Lubnaig; Gunnard's Head—Cornwall (1870); River Scene—Sussex (1874); Wheat Harvest—Hampshire (1877); Morning on the Thames—Windsor, Windsor Castle—Morning, Thirlmere (1878); Timber Drag (1880).—Art Journal (1883), 343; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 743.

COLE, THOMAS, born at Bolton le Moor, England, Feb. 1, 1801, died near Catskill, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1848. Landscape painter; in 1819 his father emigrated to America and settled in Ohio, where Thomas first learned the rudiments of art from a portrait painter named Stein. After studying nature under great difficulties, he went in 1825 to New York, and was first brought into notice by his views on the Hudson. He made several visits to England, France, and Italy, but passed the greater part of his professional life in New York. Exhibited at Royal Academy, London, View in New Hampshire, Tomb of General Brock (1830), and View in United States (1831). Two of his allegorical series, the Course of Empire and Voyage of Life, were very popular. Works: Dream of Arcadia; Departure; Return; Garden of Eden (1828); Expulsion from Paradise (1828), Lenox Library, New York; Titian's Goblet (1833), J. M. Falconer, New York; Mount Etna, White Mountains, Wadsworth Collection, Hartford; Angel appearing to the Shepherds, Boston Athenæum; Primitive State of Man, E. L. Rogers, Baltimore; View on the Thames, Jonathan Sturges, New York; Cross in the Wilderness; L'Allegro; Il Penseroso; Mountain Ford, M. K. Jesup; Cross and the World (unfinished), Vincent Colyer; Course of Empire, Vale of Segesta, Italian Landscape, Moonlight, Conway Peak, Catskill Creek, Summer Sunset, Historical Society, New York.—Noble, Life and Works (1850); Tuckerman, 223.

COLE, VICAT, born at Portsmouth, England, in 1833. Landscape painter, son and pupil of George Cole; exhibited first picture at British Institution in 1851, and at Royal Academy in 1854; elected an A.R.A. in 1870, and R.A. in 1880. Works: Under