PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
Hampton C!ourt. Palace. Francis 11.
„ „ Mary, Queen of Scots.
London. A'at. Gall. Blan's Portrait.
,, ,, Boy's Portrait.
,, Hereford Hoxse. Wary, Queen of Scots.
Munich. Finakothek. Claudia, daughter of Henri
II. of France.
Paris. Louvre. Charles IX.
» It Elizabeth of Austria, wife of
Charles IX.
Vienna. Charles IX. 1563.
The Marqiiia of Biencourt possesses a remark-
able portrait of the Duke of Montiuorency, besides
other works by Clouet. There are in the British
Museuta some crayon heads, and at Chantilly there
are now eighty-eight portraits in black and white
chalk in the manner of Holbein, representing
persons eminent at the French court in Clouet's
day, which are considered to be his work.
See Lord Ronald GoweHs book on Castle
Howard pictures.
CLOUET, Jeam, (or Cloet,) the elder, a Flemish painter of historical subjects and portraits, was employed by the Duke of Burgundy, and was living at Brussels in 1475. He died about 1490. There is no proof of his having visited France, much less of his having settled at Tours between the years 1475 and 1485, as has been asserted. He was an artist of great talent, and may be included among the celebrated miniature painters of his time.
CLOUET, Jean, the younger, was a painter of Flemish origin who established himself in France, probably at Tours, prior to the accession of Francis I. It appears highly probable that his father was the Jean Clouet who was painter to the Duke of Burgundy. He himself became court painter to Francis I., and his name occurs in that capacity as early as 1518. He is supposed to have been born about 1485. In the documents in which reference is made to him he is called Jehan, Jehan- not, and Jehannet. Besides the oOice of court painter he held that of ' valet-de-chambre.' There is much uncertainty about his works, but the fol- lowing are generally attributed to him : a small painting of Francis I. in armour, in the Uffizi at Florence; a full-length figure of Eleanor of Spain, wife of Francis I., at Hampton Court ; and a picture of Margaret of Valois, in the Royal Institution at Liverpool. If these are correctly as- signed to him, it would appear that his pictures were distinguished from those of his son by sharper outline, and by a more antique rendering. He died in 1541, in all probability in Paris.
CLOUET, Petrus, (also Clowet, Clouwet, or Clovet,) a Flemish engraver, was born at Antwerp in 1606, and died there in 1670. After having learnt the rudiments of the art in his native city, he went to Italy, and at Rome became a pupil of Spierre, and Bloemaert. On his return to Antwerp, he engraved several portraits and subjects after Rubens. They are executed with the graver in a firm, clear manner, resembling the style of Pontius, but are not equal to the works of that master. His plates, particularly those after Rubens, are con- siderably esteemed. We have the following by him :
PORTKAITS.
Pietro Aretino. Thomas a Kempis. Ferdinando Cortes. "William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle , after Diepenbeeck. Christoffel van der Laneu, painter ; after Van Dj/ck. Theodorus Kogiers, Goldsmith ; after the same. Anne Wake, Countess of Sussex holding a Fan of Feathers ; after the saiyie. Henry Rich, Earl of Holland . after the same. Some of the Plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Monster ; after Fan Hulte.
SUBJECTS FROM VARIOUS MASTERS.
The Descent from the Cross ; after Rubem. The Death of St. Anthony; after the same; fine and scarce. St. Michael discomfiting the Evil Spirit ; after the same. The Epitaph of Eubens. with Accessories. Several gallant Figures in a Garden ; called The Garden of Love. The first impressions are with Flemish verses ; fine and scarce. Those with the address of C. van Merlin are retouched, and very inferior. A large Landscape, representing "Winter, with the Snow falling, and a Stable with Cows ; belonging to a set of six landscapes, of which five are engraved by Bohirert. The "Virgin suckling the Infant Jesus; after J'an Di/ckj who has etched the same subject. A Company of Cavaliers and Ladies at Table, said to be the Family of the Duke of Newcastle ; after Diepenbeeck.
CLOVIO, Giorgio Giulio, (called Macedo,) was an extraordinary artist, who was born at Grizane in Croatia in 1498. After learning the rudiments of drawing in a convent of his own country, he went to Rome, where he was patronized by Cardinal Grimani. In the years 1516 to 1519 Clovio executed for him several excellent pen-and-ink designs for medals and seals ; thereby acquiring the habit of designing small figures, which he executed with a taste, accuracy, and firmness that gave grandeur to miniature. He entered the school of Giulio Romano, and devoted himself entirely to miniature painting, — a branch of art which he ennobled by his inimitable talent, and in which he acquired a reputation that ranks him with the great, at a period which immediately succeeded the most distinguished epoch of Roman excellence. In his design of the figure, extraordinary as it may appear, he evinces something of the greatness of the Roman school, and of Michelangelo, whose works and those of Raphael he especially studied, and the naturalist will find every insect delineated with astonishing correctness, although on so diminutive a scale as to require the use of a magnifier. His works were executed solely for the sovereigns and princes of bis time, in whose libraries were found books embellished with his miniatures, painted with extraordinary force and beauty of colouring, with the most" correct design. The most extraordinary work of Clovio is the pro- cession of Corpus Domini, at Rome, painted in twenty-six pictures, which occupied the artist during nine years. The rich covers to this masterpiece were executed by Benvenuto Cellini. At Milan, the Cistercians possess a picture by Clovio of the 'Descent from the Cross,' which breathes all the spirit of the golden age of Roman art. He died at Rome in 1578. His cognomen Macedo, or Macedoiie, was given him, it is supposed, because his ancestors were of Macedonia. His works are so incredibly numerous that their description would fill a large volume ; we therefore give only a short list of some of his principal productions :
Florence. Pitti Pal. Deposition, signed juLius macedo FA. London. Soane Coll. The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans. „ British Mus. The "Victories of the Emperor (Grenville Charles V. (Tirelve miniatures Collection.) painted for Philip II., King of Spain, formerly in the EscorialS
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