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 *erman, Book of the Artists (1867); Sandby, i. 189.

COPPO DI MARCOVALDO, of Florence, 13th century. His Madonna enthroned, called "del Bordone," in S. M. dei Servi, Siena, said to have been painted in 1261, is in the defective manner of the period. The colours are darkened by age and restoration.—C. & C., Italy, i. 200; Vasari, ed. Mil., i. 265, 266.

COQUES (Cocx), GONZALES (Gonsalve), born in Antwerp in 1618, died there, April 18, 1684. Flemish school; portrait painter, pupil of Peeter Brueghel (the 3d) in 1626-27, later of David Ryckaert, the elder, whose daughter he married, in 1643; was free of the guild in 1640, and its president in 1665-66 and 1680-81. His portraits, which are chiefly small, are in the manner of Van Dyck, whence he is sometimes called the Little Van Dyck. Clear and harmonious in his warm, brownish flesh-tones, his touch is broad and spirited; the backgrounds are generally the work of other painters. Works: Family Group, Portrait of a Lady, National Gallery, London; Verhelst Family, Buckingham Palace; Music Lesson, Family Group, Family Portraits, Sir R. Wallace; Family Group around Piano, Lord Taunton, London; Elector Frederic of the Palatinate and Wife, David Teniers, Lord Ellesmore; Family in Dutch Garden, Mr. John Walter, Bearwood; Picture Gallery with forty-four Artists' Portraits, Amsterdam Museum; Female Portrait, Antwerp Museum; Christ with Mary and Martha, Arenberg Gallery, Brussels; Young Scholar and Wife, Cassel Gallery; Portrait of Cornelis de Bie, Berlin Museum; Family Group of ten, Nantes Museum; Portrait of Maria de Haen, Lille Museum; Group of Artists, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Family Group, Dresden Gallery; Musical Assembly, National Gallery, Pesth.—Allgem. d. Biogr., iv. 471; Biog. nat. de Belgique, iv. 381; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Cat. de Musée d'Anvers (1874), 78; Michiels, ix. 30, 246; Rooses (Reber), 379; Zeitschr. f. b. K. vii. 9.

CORBOULD, EDWARD HENRY, born in London, Dec. 5, 1815. History painter, son and pupil of Henry C., painter and designer (1787-1844); twice won gold medal of Society of Arts; member of Institute of Painters in Water Colours. From 1851 to 1872 was teacher of drawing and painting to children of Queen Victoria. Works: Fall of Phaëthon (1834); St. George and Dragon (1835); Greek Chariot-Race (1836); Race between Atrides and Antilochus (1837); Woman taken in Adultery (1842); Marriage of Nigel Bruce and Agnes of Buchan (1870), Queen Victoria; Lady Godiva (1871); Enid's Dream (1872); Héloise (1873); Canterbury Pilgrims (1874); Iris (1878).—Müller, 114.

CORDAY, CHARLOTTE, IN PRISON, Charles Louis Müller, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; canvas, H. 3 ft. 5 in. × 2 ft. 8 in. Charlotte Corday, to rid her country of Marat, obtained an audience and stabbed him while in his bath. She was guillotined, July 17, 1793, aged 25 years. Represented to knees, seen through the iron bars of a prison window, one of which she grasps with her left hand, and supports her head with the right, in which she holds a pen. Engraved by A. Lamotte. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America.—Corcoran Gal. Cat.

CORDELIA AND KING LEAR, Theodor Hildebrandt, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York; canvas. King Lear, Act IV., Scene 7. Cordelia, though disowned, still clings to her father, whom Goneril and Regan, who have his blessing, have driven to despair and madness.—Art Treas. of Amer., i. 48.

CORDELIAGHI or CORDELLA, ANDREA. See Previtali, Andrea.

CORENZIO, BELISARIO, born in Greece about 1558, died in Naples in 1643. Nea