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 hand. Delessert sale, Paris (1869), 150,000 francs; Narischkine sale, Paris (1883), 160,000 francs—Smith, iv. 229; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 202; L'Art (1883), i. 113.

CONTARINI, GIOVANNI, Cavaliere, born in Venice in 1549, died in 1605. Venetian school; history and portrait painter; contemporary of Palma, studied works of Titian and Tintoretto. Went to Germany and painted much at court of Rudolph II., by whom he was knighted. Works: Resurrection, S. Francesco di Paola, Venice; Crucifixion, Chiesa della Croce, Venice; St. Jerome, Brera, Milan; St. Sebastian, Berlin Museum; Baptism of Christ, Vienna Museum; his own portrait, Uffizi, Florence.

CONTI, TITO, born in Italy; contemporary. History and genre painter; lives in Florence. Works: Wine Taster, Samuel Hawk Collection, New York; Meeting of Dante and Beatrice; Meeting of Petrarch and Laura; Dante and his Friends; Lute Player (1883).

CONVENT, RETURN TO, Eduardo Zamacoïs, R. L. Cutting, New York; canvas. Scene: entrance to a Spanish Franciscan monastery, with mendicant monks returning from a begging expedition to the village, the roofs of which, covered with snow, are seen in the background; several donkeys are tied up to rings in the wall, but one balking animal is pulling an exasperated monk backwards, his track making a slide in the snow. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America.—Art Treas. of Amer., ii. 33.

CONVOCATION OF CLERGY, Sir John Gilbert, Royal Academy, London; canvas. A meeting of dignitaries of the Roman Church, listening to a monk who stands defending some point of doctrine from a volume held in his hand; background, tapestry hangings representing a triumphal church procession. Painted in 1870-71; presented to Academy as his diploma picture. Etched by L. Flameng in Portfolio.—Portfolio (1878), 113.

CONZ, GUSTAV, born at Tübingen in 1832. Landscape painter, pupil of Stuttgart Art School under Funk; studied in Munich in 1856-58, and in Düsseldorf, in 1862, under Oswald Achenbach; then for one year in Rome, and in 1865 became professor at the Katharinen Stift in Stuttgart. Works: View in Upper Bavaria (1862); Coast of Terracina; View of Aricia; View near Olevano; View of S. M. della Vittoria in Rome.—Müller, 112.

COOK, H., born in England; contemporary. Landscape painter. Exhibits chiefly at Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Lago Maggiore (1880); View in Venice (1881); Church and Bridge of St. Polo, San Giorgio—Venice (1882); Sunset—Venice (1883).

COOKE, EDWARD WILLIAM, born in London in 1811, died near Groombridge, Jan. 4, 1880. Son and pupil of George Cooke, engraver (1781-1834); studied architecture and perspective under the elder Pugin; first exhibited at Royal Academy in 1835, Honfleur Fishing Boats, and Hay-Barge off Greenwich. Two years later he went to Holland, which he re-visited many times; travelled also in Spain, France, Italy, and Egypt, painting many architectural subjects, landscapes, and marine views. Became A.R.A. in 1851, and R.A. in 1864. His Dutch Boats in a Calm and The Boat House are in the National Gallery; others in S. Kensington Museum.—Cats. Nat. Gal. and R. Acad.; Sandby, ii. 327; Graves, 52.

COOMANS, JOSEPH, born at Brussels in 1816. History and genre painter; first instructed in Ghent by Hasselaere, a mediocre artist, then pupil of Antwerp Academy under N. de Keyser and Wappers; went with the French army to Algiers, where he spent several years, then visited Italy, Turkey, Greece, and the Crimea; in Italy again in 1857, since when, attracted by the Pompeian paintings, he has painted almost exclusively subjects from antiquity. Works: Conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders (1841); Battle of Ascalon (1842); The Deluge; Landscape in Province of Constantine; Emigration of