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 CURRADO, FRANCESCO, born near Florence in 1570, died in Florence in 1661. Florentine school; history painter, pupil of B. Naldini; after working for churches in Florence, went to Rome, where he painted several pictures for the King of Portugal, who sent him the Order of Christ. Settled in Florence, where he brought up many pupils. Works: St. Francis Xavier preaching in India, S. Giovannino, Florence; Narcissus, St. Catherine, Palazzo Pitti, ib.; Magdalen, Martyrdom of St. Thecla, his own portrait, Uffizi, ib.; Abraham receiving the Angels, Vienna Museum. His brothers Pietro and Cosimo were his pupils and followers.

CURTI, GIROLAMO. See Dentone.

CURZON, PAUL ALFRED DE, born at Moulinat, near Poitiers, Sept. 7, 1820. Landscape and genre painter, pupil of Drolling and Cabat. Won second prize for historical landscape at the École des Beaux Arts in 1849. Is highly esteemed, especially for his genre pictures. Has also tried water-colour and lithography. Medals: 2d class, 1857, 1859, 1861, and 1863; 3d class, 1867; 2d class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1865. Works: Hops (1845); The River Clain, Auvergne, The Loire (1846); Water Spirits, Béranger's Fates (1848); Beside the Water (1849); Democritus Meditating, Ruins of Pæstum, View of Terracina, Acropolis of Athens (1852); The Cephisus (1855); Dante and Virgil on Shores of Purgatory, Blind Greeks, Women of Piscinisco, An Albanian Woman (1857); Psyche (1859), Luxembourg Museum; Tasso at Sorrento, Near Foligno, Near Civita-Castellana (1859); Neapolitan Flower-Girls, In the Woods, Pilgrims halting at Subiaco, Family of Fishermen in Capri, The Illissus and Ruins of Temple of Jupiter at Athens (1861); Ave Maria, Galinaro's Granddaughter, Vesuvius (1863); Vintage at Procida, Ruins of Roman Bridge near the Walls of Nami (1864); Consoling Angel, Torrent in the Apennines (1865); Dream in the Ruins of Pompeii (1866); Dominicans decorating their Chapel (1867), Ostia (1868), Luxembourg Museum; The Prophetess, Coast of Sorrento, The River Clain at Poitiers (1869); Birth of Homer, The Ocean (1870); Harbour of Toulon, Moulières River near Toulon (1872); A River (1873); First Portrait; Serenade in the Abruzzi (1874); Triptych, or 3 Scenes from the Life of Ruth (1875); Ruins of Temple of Jupiter near Athens, View from Summit of the Acropolis (1876); Graziella, Ruins of Aqueducts on the Roman Campagna (1877); Near Public Well at Amalfi, Ruins of the Acropolis of Athens in 1852 (1878); Stairs of Atrani at Ravello, Lake Avezzano (1879); Girl and her Guardian Angel, Garden near Nimes (1880); Erechtheum at Athens (1881); View of the Sea and Capri, Coast of Provence near Toulon (1882); Acropolis and Campagna of Athens, Foot of Mount Taygetus (1883); Banks of the Teverone—Roman Campagna, Environs and Bay of Athens (1884); View in Black Forest (1885).—Larousse; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), 510.

CUTHBERT, ST., Ernest Duez, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, triptych, H. 10 ft. 8 in. × 23 ft. Cuthbert, a shepherd in the Valley of the Tweed, was educated in a monastery, and became a noted preacher. He lived on Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, off the coast of Northumberland, where he supported himself by his own labour and was miraculously fed. Finally became Bishop of Lindisfarne and built there a monastery, destroyed by the Danes in 900. The middle part of the picture represents him in his bishop's robes. Salon, 1879.

CUYLENBORCH (Cuylenburg, Kuylenburg), ABRAHAM VAN, died after 1664. Dutch school; landscape painter in the manner of Poelenburg; master of Utrecht guild in 1639. Works: Grotto with Diana and her Nymphs, Hague Museum; Landscapes with similar Subject (1646, 1647), Brunswick Gallery; do. (1660), Cologne Museum; three (1643, attributed to Breenbergh), Mannheim Gallery; two (1640, 1647), Schleissheim Gallery; two (1644, 1646), Schwerin Gallery; one (1664), Copenhagen Gallery; two, Borghese Gallery, Rome;