A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
GARY, Francis Stephen, the fifth son of tlje
Rev. Henry Francis Cary, the transhitor of Dante,
was born in 1808. He studied art in England and
Italy, and about 1840 succeeded Henry Sass,
the well-known master of the School of Art in
Bloomsbury, London. From that time till about
1870 he imparted instruction to many young
painters and sculptors who were afterwards suc-
cessful in life. Cary, whose works were constantly
seen at the London Exhibitions, died in 1880.
CASA, Niccol6 della. See Della Casa.
CASA, Pier Antonio della. See Bernabei.
CASADO DEL ALISAL, Jos^ was born in Valencia in 1832. He studied atthe Royal Academy of San Fernando, Madrid, and under Federico de Madrazo. In 1860 he won the 'prix de Rome,' and tirst-class medals at Madrid in 1862, 18G4 and 1881. He was Director of the Spanish Academy and court painter, and died in 1895. His principal picture, ' The Bell of Huesca,' for which he received the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel the Catholic, is now in the Museum of Modern Art at Madrid. His other pictures include 'The Death of Ferdinand IV., "Semiramis," Goya's Studio," Beheaded Arabs,' 'Flora' (1881), ' In the Boudoir' (1882), 'Tempta- tion ' (1884), and ' Laura ' (1885).
CASALI, Andre.4, called 'The Chevalier,' an Italian painter and engraver, was born at Civiti Vecchia about 1720, and is said to have been a pupil of S. Conca. He visited England about 1741, and was employed in the decoration of the houses of several of the nobility, and on altar- pieces for churches. He remained in England till 1766, after which he lived for some years at Rome. He etched some plates from his own designs and one from Raphael.
CASALINA, Lucia, an eminent portrait-painter, was born at Bologna in 1677. She was the pupil of Giuseppe dal Sole, and at first attempted some historical subjects, but became much more success- ful in portraits. Her own portrait, by herself, is in the Gallery of Florence. She married Felice Torelli, and died in 1762.
CASANOBRIO, Luca. See Carlevariis.
CASANOVA, Carlos, born at Exea de los Caballeros, in Aragon, studied painting under Geronimo Secano at Saragossa. He became painter to Ferdinand VI., and died at Madrid in 1762. He executed a portrait of Ferdinand VI., and one of Fray Miguel do San Josef presenting his 'Bibliografia critica ' to Pope Benedict XIV. He also engraved Herera's picture of ' St. Augustine,' at Madrid, and some plates for the first edition of Ulloa's ' Relacion historica del viage d la America meridional,' Madrid 1748.
CASANOVA, Francesco Giuseppe, was born in London in 1727, of Italian parents, who sent him while still young to Venice, where, after receiving some instruction from Guardi, he became a pupil of Francesco Simonini, a painter of battle-pieces, and, like him, took Borgognone for his model. Besides battle-pieces Casanova painted landscapes with figures and cattle, as well as sea-pieces and pastoral subjects. He arrived in Paris in 1751, and went to Dresden in the following year, where he remained until 1757. On his return to Paris he studied under Parocel, and was received into the Academy in 1763. He exhibited at the Salon till 1783, when he went to Vienna. He died at Briihl in 1802. He was a clever painter, often powerful, often fascinating, but inferior to Borgognone and f:.r below Salvator Rosa, and now thought no more of than his pupil Loutherbourg. The following are some of his principal paintings :
Bordeaux, Museum, Cavalry Engagement. Dulwi;h, GaUery, Wanderers near a river. Lille, Museum, Two Landscapes. Pari^, Lojnre, Battle of Fribourg, 1771 ; Battle of Lens, 1771; Landscape with animals; Landscape with animals; A Cavalier galloping; A Cavalier and other soldiers. Petersburg, £[ermit<tfje, A Cow. Vienna, Gallery, Cavalry Engagement.
ETCHINGS.
The Russian Drummer on horseback. The Three Cuirassiers. The Standard. A Cavalry Skirmish. The Ass and the Banner. The Painter's Dinner.
CASANOVA, Francisco, the son and scholar of Carlos Casanova, born at Saragossa in 1734, prac- tised painting and copper-plate engraving. Cean Bennudez mentions with commendation a print of ' St. Emidius ' executed by him at Cadiz in 1765. He was appointed engraver to the mint at Mexico, where he died in 1778.
CASANOVA, Giovanni Battista, brother of Francesco Casanova, was born at Venice in 1722. He studied painting under Silvestre and Dietrich at Dresden, and went in 1752 to Rome, where, under the tuition of Mengs, he became an accomplished artist in pencil and crayon. Amongst other works he designed the plates to Vinckelmann's ' Monuraenti antichi.' He was appointed professor in the Academy at Dresden in 1764. His death occurred in 1795.
CASANOVA, T EsTORACH, a Spanish painter, pio-daced many pictures of historical subjects, of which the most important was, 'The Queen Regent taking the Oath before the Cortes.' He died in 1890.
CASELLI, Cristoforo, who was also known as Cristoforo da Parma, or II Temporello, and called by Vasari Cristofano Castelli, was a pupil of Mazzuola, and lived in the 15th and 16th cen- turies. He earned his livelihood between 1489 and 1492 as a journeyman at Venice, where he painted, in 1495, an altar-piece now hanging in the Sacristy of Santa Maria della Salute. The Gallery of Parma contains a 'Virgin and Child, with SS. John the Baptist and Jerome,' probably painted by him before 1489. In 1496 he became a master at Parma, and painted in 1499 a ' Virgin and Child between SS. Hilarius and John the Baptist,' which is now in the Sala del Consorzio in that city. The same year he executed ' The Eternal ' on a gold ground in a chapel of the cathedral, and the ' Adoration of the Magi ' in San Giovanni Evangelista. In 1507 he finished the monochrome of the ' Dead Christ ' in the cathedral. The dates of his birth and death are alike uncertain.
CASEMBROODT, Abrahaji, a Dutch painter, flourished abuut the middle of the 17th century. He distinguished himself at Messina as a landscape and marine painter. He occasionally painted historical events, and some pictures by him are in the church of San Giovacchino at Messina. He has also left a few etchings of marine subjects.
CASENTINO, Jacopo del. SeeLANDiNi.
CASEY, Daniel, a French historical painter, was a pupil of Waj.pers, in whose atelier at Antwerp he was a fellow-student with Mr. Ford Madox Brown. He first exhibited at the Salon of 1842, when he contributed a ' St. Louis in the Desert, near Damietta,' which was bought by the Government, and is now in the Bordeaux Museum. He exhibited constantly in Paris and Belgium, and became known as a powerful painter of ambitious
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