A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
The Life of Jesns Christ ; in thirty-six plates.
Thirty plates of Birds.
One hundred and twenty-five plates of Fishes.
Twenty-four plates ; entitled Florileijium ah Hadriano
Collaert ctBlatum, ^c.
The Temptation of St. Anthony.
St. ApoUonia.
SUBJECTS AFTER VARIOUS MASTEKS.
The Twelve Months of the Tear; after Josse Pe Momyer ; the same that Callot has engraved. The Last Judgment ; after J. Stradan. St. Hubert ; after the same. Twelve plates of Horses ; after the same. A Huutiug aud Fishing Party ; after the same. The Israelitish AVomeu singing the Song of Pr.aise for the Destruction of the Egyptian Host in the Ked Sea ; after the satne. A "Woman saving her Child from a Lion ; after the same. Twelve Landscapes ; after Hendrik van C'leef. A set of Hermitesses ; after M. de J'os ; engraved con- jointly with his son Hans Collaert. The Calling of St. Andrew to the Apostleship ; after Barocci. The Eepose in Egypt ; after H. Golt:ius. 1585. A set of six plates, called the Annunciations ; considered among the best of his works.
COLLAERT, Hans or Jan, the son of Adriaen Collaert, was bom at Antwerp about 1540. After Deing instructed by his father for a while, he fol- lowed his example in visiting Italy, where he passed some time. He assisted his father in many of his works, and engraved a great number of plates, dated from 1555 to 1622, which are executed in the style of Adriaen, but with more taste and less stiffness. He died at Antwerp in 1628. He eometimes signed his plates with his name Hans Collaert fecit, sometimes with the initials H- C. F., and sometimes with the cipher J ( Q|j . The following are his prints most worthy of notice ;
SUBJECTS after HIS OWN DESIGNS.
The Life of St. Francis ; In sixteen plates, with grotesque borders. The Dead Christ in the Lap of the Virgin. Tlie Last Judgment, surrounded with small subjects of the Life of Christ. Peace. Charity. Ten plat«s ; entitled Monilium Bvllarum tnaunumque Icones. 1581.
SUBJECTS AFTER VARIOUS MASTERS.
St'. John preaching in the "Wilderness ; G.A. Z. inv. Moses striking the Kock ; after J^mhert Lomhard ; very fine. Marcus Curtius throwing himself into the Gulf; after the same. A Satyr pursued by Women ; after J. Stradan. Time and Truth ; after the same ; very fine. Mars and "Venus ; after the same. The Loves of Mars and "V^enus ; four plates ; after P. Galle. The Title to the Bihlia Sacra ; after liuhens ; fine. The Title to the Kerkelt/ke Histories after the same; fine. The Title to the Heylige Vaders Boeck ; after the same ; fine. Twelve plates for a ' Missal ; ' after the designs of Rubens. The subjects are taken from the Lives of Christ and the "Virgin.
COLLANDON, D. See Colandon.
COLLANTES, Francisco, a Spanish painter, was born at Madrid in 1699. He was instructed by "Vicente Carducci and painted figures, animals, land.scapes, fruit, and flower-pieces, and often united historical subjects with landscapes. His works are executed in a bold and masterly manner, in the style of Rubens, richly coloured, and with very romantic scenery. Of his historical works, the principal are ' St. Jerome,' and a picture of the Resurrection, in the Buen Retire. He died at Madrid in 1656. There are by him :
Copenhagen. Museum. St. Jerome. Madrid. Gallery. The "Vision of Ezekiel. ,, „ St. William of Aquitaine. „ „ I^andscapes {two). „ „ The Burning of Troy. Munich. Pinakoihek. Landscape. Paris. Louvre. Jehovah appearing to Moses in the Burning Bush. Petersburg. Hermitage. St. John the Baptist.
COLLAS, AcHiLLE, a French mechanician, was born in Paris in 1795. He was the inventor of the process of engraving in imitation of bas-reliefs and cameos which is known by his name. His principal work is the ' Tr^sor de Numisraatique et (le Glyptique,' 22 volumes in folio, published in 1834-1850. He died in Paris in 1859.
COLLE, RaffaelliN'I dal. See Dal Colle.
COLLEONI, Girolamo, was a native of Bergamo, born, according to Tassi, about the end of the 16th century. Most of the works of this able artist, in his own country, were formerly in the church of Sant' Antonio dell' Ospitale at Bergamo, but were destroyed at the time the church was re- built. In the church dedicated to St. Erasmo, at San Borgo Canale near Bergamo, is preserved one of his most esteemed works, painted in 1538. This picture is described by Tassi as one of the most admirable proiluctions of Bergamese art. It repre- sents the Virgin and Infant, with Mary Magdalene, St. John, and St. Erasmus. Lanzi mentions a pic- ture by CoUeoni of the ' Marriage of St. Catharine,' in the Carrara Gallery, which was thought by the best judges to be a work of Titian, until the inscrip- tion, Hieronymus Colleo, bhb, was found on it. Not meeting with the distinction he merited in his own country, and disgusted at the encouragement given to inferior talents of foreign growth, he determined to leave it ; but, previous to his depar- ture, Tassi asserts, he painted in one night on the fajade of his house a very beautiful horse, and inscribed under it. Nemo propheta acceptus in, patria sua. He went to Spain, where he met ith due encouragement, and was employed in the Escorial.
COLLET, John, known as ' John Collet, senior,' died in London in 1771. He painted portraits.
COLLET, John, an English artist, born in London in 1725, was a scholar of Lambert, the landscape painter. He painted subjects of humour, somewhat in the manner of Hogarth, approaching him only in vulgarity and caricature. In pieces wherein he did not attempt to imitate that genius, and confined himself to simple objects, he showed considerable merit in the representation of the characters and costume of his time. Several of his pictures have been engraved, and there are some etchings by him. He died in 1780. Two water-colour drawings by him are in the South Kensington Museum.
COLLET, Louis, was a native of Paris, and flourished about the year 1610. He engraved a set of plates or ornaments for goldsmiths and jewellers, from the designs of Giles Legare, which are exe- cuted with the graver in a very neat style : these were published in 16G3.
COLLETTE, Alexandre, a French lithographer, was born at Arras in 1814, and died in 1877.
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