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In 1825 he completed Hanover Chapel/ Resent Street; and in 1829, St. David's, College, Lampeter, a Gothic design; and was in that year elected an associate of the Royal Academy. About the same time he. was a competitor for the erection of the Cambridge University Library, and wad eventually employed, but only one wing) of his design was built. His next large* work was the Westminster Fire Office, in King Street, Covent Garden. J

In 1833 he was appointed architect to, the Bank of England, and he erected the Dividend Office, and made some other alter-| ations, which were in his best manner, but they have chiefly been since pulled down; to provide for some necessary enlarge-! ments. In 1836 he was elected a member of the Academy, and in 1840 was ap-l pointed professor of architecture. He competed for the erection of the Houses of Parliament, the National Gallery, and| the London University, and later for the; Royal Exchange ; and failure was, in such strong contests, no dishonour to any artist. | In 1840 he designed the Taylor and Ran- dolph Buildings at Oxford, a noble work ;' and in 1845 was presented with the hon- orary degree of D.C.L. He was engaged during seven years in completing, on the death of their designer, Mr. Elmes, the Assize Courts and St George's Hall, Liver- pool, which the latter had commenced. In 1848 he was awarded the first gold medal given by the Institute of Architects, of which he was the president. In 1857 he completed at Liverpool, after his own designs, the London Insurance Company's offices, his last work. He had gained European reputation, was a member of several foreign orders and academies, and after a long and active life died at his house in Regent's Park, September 17, 1863, and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.

He was only an occasional exhibitor at the Academy, and then not of the works he was executing, but rather his classic restorations and dreams of the great works of antiquity, rendered valuable by his great knowledge and study. Thus, in 1830 and 1831, he exhibited restorations of the Parthenon and of the theatre at Pom- peii ; in 1838, ' A Tribute to the Memory of Wren/ comprising a group of his chief works ; in 1849, ' The Professor's Dream/ a composition including the principal archi- tectural monuments of ancient and modern times ; in 1859. his last contribution to the Academy Exhibitions, ' Study of the Mau- soleum of HaHcarnassus/ from the ancient texts and fragments, with the then recent measurements. He was also distinguished as a lecturer and writer on his art. He

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Iconography of the West front of Wells: Cathedral ', and, in 1860, 'The Temples of Jupiter Panhellenius and Apollo Epi- curius.'

COCK SON. Thomas, engraver and draftsman. He worked exclusively with the graver, in a neat, finished, stiff manner, and engraved a great variety of portraits ; among them, of 'James I. sitting in Parliament;' his daughter, the Princess Elizabeth; * Charles I. in Parliament;' Louis XIII. ; Mary de Medicis ; also the 'Revels of Christendom,' and some sea-

Sieces, with shipping. His best works are ated between 1620-30.

COLE, Humphrey, engraver, drafts- man, and goldsmith. Was born in the North of England about 1530. He was an officer of the Royal Mint, in the Tower. He engraved a frontispiece for Parker's ' Bible, published in 1572, in which he has represented a portrait of Queen Elizabeth., with the Earl of Leicester as ' Goliath ' ana Lord Burleigh as ' David.'

COLE, Peter, portrait painter. Prac- tised in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was some time director of the Mint. He is mentioned by Meres in his ' Wits' Com- monwealth,' 1592, and is supposed to have been the brother of the above Humphrey Cole.

COLE. John, engraver. He was much employed: by booksellers on works of a low class, which he produced entirely with the graver. He etched 136 plates for a ' His- tory of Canterbury Cathedral and West- minster Abbey,' published in 1727.

COLE, B., engraver. Practised in the first half of the 18th century. He en-

faved chiefly portraits, among them Lords ilmarnock, Cromarty, Balmerino, and Frazer of Lovat.

♦ COLE, Sir Ralph, Bart., amateur. Was the son of Sir Nicholas Cole, of Brancepeth Park, Durham, who was created a baronet in 1649. When young he studied paint- ing under Vandyke. He retained several Italian painters in his own service, and spent his fortune in his love for art. His friend, Francis Place, executed a good por- trait of him in mezzo-tint. He painted, in 1677, a half-length portrait of Thomas Wyndham, F.R.&, which is now in the library at Petworth, and has been mezzo- tinted, by R. Tompson.*

COLEBURN, Kribtian, 'paynter.' Practised in London, and was engaged to paint 'in most fine, fairest and curious wise four images of stone — Our Ladye, St. Gabrielle, St. Anne, and St. George, for the tomb of the Warwick family in Warwick Church.' Time of Henry VI. (1439).

COLECHURCH, Peter of, architect. He was chaplain of St. Mary, Colechurch, and practised as an architect in the 12th