PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
COLLIER, John, who assumed the name of Tim
Bobbin, was born at Warrington in the early part
of the 18th century. He was an eccentric indi-
vidual — travelling the country, first aa a school-
master, then as a sign-painter, portrait-painter, and
caricaturist, living from hand to mouth. He was
a!so an author, and issued in 1810, 'The Passions
humourously delineated,' with 25 coloured plates ;
a volume of his ' Miscellaneous Works,' with his
Life by R. Townley, and with portrait and copper-
piates.was published in 1818. He lived to the age
of 80, but the dates of his birth and death are
uncertain.
COLLIER, Marian, an English amateur painter, was the daughter of Professor Huxley. In 1879 ehe married Mr. John Collier. She painted figure pictures, and occasionally exhibited at the Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery. She died November 18, 1887.
COLLIER, Tom, was bom a' Glossop, Derbyshire, in 1840. Though he studied for a short time at the Manchester School of Art, he was practically self-taught. In 18G1 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours, to the esliibitions of which he was a frequent contributor. He sent pictures to the Paris Ex- hibitions of 1878 and 1889, and on the former occasion was created a Knight of the Legion of Honour. Collier painted landscapes of English scenery, in water-colour, of which three examples are at South Kensington. He painted also in oils, and exhibited at the Royal Academy. He died at Hampstead in 1891.
COLLIER. SeeMoNKSWELL.
COLLIN, Richard, a German designer and en- graver, was born at Luxemburg in 1627. He went to Rome when young, and became a scholar of his countryman, Sandrart, for whose 'Accademia' he engraved some plates. On his return from Italy he resided at Antwerp and Brussels, where he engraved several portraits and other subjects, in a neat but laboured style. The following are his principal plates :
PORTRAITS.
Jane Eickerton, Duchess of Norfolk. Sir Godfrey Kneller ; for Sandrart 's * Accademia.' John Zachary Kneller; for the same. Artus Quellinus, sculptor ; aftfr E. Quellinus. Jan Philip van Thielen, flower painter ; after the same. Joachim Sandrart. 1679. Eartolome Esteban Murillo, painter ; after Murillo. Christian Albert, Prince Bishop of Lubeck. 1654. Anna Adelhildi , mfe of the Prince de la Tour et Tassis. 1682. A set of forty portraits of the Saints of Mount Carmel.
SUBJECTS AFTER VARIOUS MASTERS.
Esther before Ahasuerus ; after Ruhens. Christ bearing iiis Cross ; after A. Diepenheeck. St. Arnold ; after the same.
COLLIN DE VERMONT, Hvacinthe, a French historical painter, was bom at Versailles in 1693. He was a grandson of H. Rigaud and a pupil of Jouvenet, and was received into the Academy in 1725, when he painted the ' Birth of Bacchus,' now in the Museum of Tours. Collin de Vermont was one of the twelve painters who in 1727 took part in the competition held in the Gallery of Apollo. He died in Paris in 1761.
COLLINGS, S. , a caricaturist and subject painter, flourished in the latter part of the 18th century. He occasionally exhibited at the Royal Academy.
COLLINS, Charles, who died in 1744, painted birds, game, and still-life.
COLLINS, Charles Allston, a younger son of William Collins, was born at Hampstead in 1828. He first exhibited in 1847, and gave up the art in 1858. Among the chief pictures exhibited by him at the Royal Academy we may mention ' Convent Thoughts' (1851), 'The Devout Childhood of St. Elizabeth of Hungary' (1852), and 'The Good Harvest of 1854' (1855); wiiich is now at South Kensington. He was also an author, and con- tributed to ' Household Words ' and ' All the Year Round,' when the latter was edited by Charles Dickens. He also wrote (in 1863) ' A Cruise upon Wheels,' a clever description of his travels, which met with a deservedly favourable reception, and several novels. He was a younger brother of Wilkie Collins the novelist, and son-in-law of Dickens, for whom he furnished the illustrated title-page of ' Edwin Drood.' His contributions to 'All the Year Round' are amongst the most charmins;' of its papers. He died after a long illness in 1873.
COLLINS, Elizabeth Johanna, flourished about the middle of the 18th century. She made designs for book illustrations.
COLLINS, Jacob, an engraver of portraits and frontispieces for books, worked in the 18th century.
COLLINS, James, flourished about the year 1715. We have some prints by liim representing views of buildings, among which is the large plate of Canterbury cathedral.
COLLINS, John, was an English engraver, who flourished about the year 1682. He engraved some very indifferent copies from the grotesque figures' published by the Bonnarts at Paris, called Scaramouch and his Company of Comedians. We have also some portraits by him ; and the Funeral Procession of George, Duke of Albemarle.
COLLINS, John, flourished in England about 1744. At Hampton Court are a 'Shepherd' and a 'Shepherdess' by him.
COLLINS, Richard, a miniature painter, was born in Hampshire in 1755. He was a pupil of Jeremias Meyer. In 1777 he exhibited some por- traits at the Royal Academy, and in 1787 became chief miniature and enamel painter to George III. He died in London in 1831.
COLLINS, Samuel, a native of Bristol, practised miniature painting at Bath, and there imparted instruction to Ozias Humphrey. About 1762 he removed to Dublin and practised there with success. His death is not recorded.
COLLINS, William, who is so well known by the rustic simplicity of his pictures, was born in London in 1788. His father, a native of Wicklow in Ireland, although of literary abilities and a poet, was obliged also to carry on the business of a picture dealer in order to obtain the means to support his family. Amongst other works, he wrote a Life of Morland, who allowed the young painter to visit his studio and to watch him paint, and by examining the works of the two men it will be seen that the early impressions made by the eccentric artist had a decided influence on the art of Collins, although the latter denied that he ever obtained any great advantage in the practical part of his art from the instruction which he received from Morland. In 1807, after having studied for many years under his father's guidance, he at length obtained admission as a student into the Royal Academy, where he gained a silver medal for drawing from the life in 1809. Even at this early period he
besan to exhibit at the annual exhibitions, and his
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