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Warwick Castle, drawn and etched by himself.
Shortly afterwards he was employed by Harding
to draw and engrave the fine series of exterior
and interior views of the Cathedrals and Abbey
Churches of England, to illustrate the new edition
of Dugdale's 'Monasticon,' edited by Sir Henry
Ellis. These plates occupied a great portion of
his time for fourteen years, and are executed with
consummate skill. In 1829, he commenced the
engravings of ' Ancient Cathedrals, Hotels de Ville,
and other public buildings in France, Holland,
Germany, and Italy ; ' all of which were drawn
from the several objects by himself. This work
was intended to be comprised in twelve parts, but,
not meeting with the public encouragement to
which it was entitled, only eight were published.
Mr. Charles Heathcote Tatham wrote the necessary
descriptions. In 1831 Coney commenced a similar
series of the 'Architectural Beauties of Continental
Europe,' for which Mr. H. E. Lloyd wrote the descriptions. This handsome work consists of 28
large plates of remarkable edifices in France, the
Low Countries, Germany, and Italy, and 66 vignettes, all drawn and etched by himself. In addition to these laborious undertakings, he executed
numerous drawings in pencil, and also in colours,
for private commissions ; and necessity often compelled him to part with many to picture-dealers
and print-sellers. He was employed by Cockerell,
the architect, to engrave a very large ^View of
Rome,' and another plate as a companion to it,
neither of which has been published. His draw-
ings exhibit all the minutest details without the
appearance of labour, yet with a neatness that is
truly surprising. He died in Camberwell in 1833.
A 'View of the Interior of Milan Cathedral' was
published after his death for tlie benetit of his
widow.
CONGIO, Cammillo, an Italian designer and engraver, was born at Rome about the year 1604. In 1630, he engraved some plates for the 'Galleria Giiistiniana.' He also executed some of the en- gravings for Tasso's ' Jerusalem,' after the designs of Bernardo Castello. We have by him some prints after different Italian masters, which he generally marked CC F. His works most worthy of notice are
The Annunciation. The Adoration of the JIagi. Hercules combating the Hydra. A Frontispiece entitled, Diversi ornamenti capnciosi. The Creation of Angels ; after Camassei. Frontispiece to the ^des Barbariu» ; after Guido Ulialdo Ahbatini. An Assembly of Saints ; after Gasjiaro Celio.
CONGNET, GiLLES. (or Coiqnet,) was born at Antwerp in 1540. He was some time under a painter called Antonio Palermo, then resident at Antwerp, and afterwards went to Italy. After visiting Temi, Naples, and several towns in Sicily, he returned to the Low Countries, where he was much encouraged. He was admitted into the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp in 1561, and was dean in 1584-85. The troubles that existed at that time under the Prince of Parma, obliged Congnet to leave his native country about 1586, and take refuge in Amsterdam, where he remained several years. He painted historical and mythological subjects of an easel size, but was more successful in landscapes, in candle-light subjects, and moon- light. He finally settled at Hamburg, where he died in 1599. The Museum of Antwerp contains a ' St. George ' and a portrait by him, and that of Cassel a ' Venus and Cupid ' of the year 1579.
CONINCK. See Koninck.
CONINCK, De (or Coningh). See De Ko-ninck.
CONINXLO, CoRNELls VAN, (or CoNiXLO,) was a Flemish painter of the 16th century, of whom nothing has been recorded. He is only known by a painting which bears his signature, ' Cornilia va Cunixlo Scernir 1626,' in the Brussels Gallery ; it represents the ' Parentage of the Virgin.'
CONINXLO, GiLLES VAN, (CONINGSLOO Or Co-NINCSLOY.) a Flemish painter of landscapes, and a relation of the other artists of the same name, was born at Antwerp in 1544. He was first instructed by Leonard Kroes, but afterwards became a scholar of Gilles Mostaert. He travelled through France to Italy, and on his return to Flandera, was much em- ployed in painting landscapes, in which the figures were frequently added by Martin van Cleef. Co- ninxlo was esteemed one of the ablest artists, in the branch that he followed, of the time in which he lived. His touch is spirited and light, and his colour clear and agreeable. He died at Antwerp in 1609. His only known work, a landscape dated 1604, is in the possession of Prince Liechten- stein at Vienna. Nicolaas De Bruyn engraved much after him.
CONINXLO, Jan van, was born at Brussels in 1489 (?), but nothing is known of the details of his career. His father, who bore the same christian name, had another son, Pieter van Coninxlo : both were painters. The name is found -nTitten in a variety of ways — Coninxlo, Conninxlo, Connixlo, Cooninxloo, Conixloo — and sometimes with the additional name of Schemier. The Brussels Gallery contains five works by Jan van Coninxlo : a triptych of the ' Life of St. Anne,' which bears on its right wing (representing the death of that saint) the signature 'Jan van Conixlo 1546'; the ' Birth of St. Nicholas,' and the ' Death of St. Nicholas,' both of which were formerly in a church in Louvain ; ' Christ among the Doctors," and the ' Marriage at Cana.' These were formerly attributea to Gilles van Coninxlo.
CONJOLA, Carl, a landscape painter in water- colours and oil, was born at Mannheim in 1773, and died at Munich in 1831. His views are prin- cipally of the mountainous parts of Bavaria and the Tyrol.
CONQUY, Ephraim, a French line-engraver, was born at Marseilles in 1809, and died in Paris in 1843. His works, many of which are portraits, are noticeable for vigour and for delicacy of finish. The most important are the following :
The French Mother; after Stfuhen. The Child Jesus on the steps of the Temple ; after Carlo Dolri. St. Catharine ; after the same. St. Cecilia ; after Domenichino, The Neapolitan Mother ; after Horace I'ernet.
CONRAD, a monk, who lived about the middle of the 13th century, compiled a number of learned works, which he illustrated with pictures. The Court Library at Munich possesses several of his designs for these, especially an ' Evangeliarium ' and ' Lectionarium,' in which there is evinced a more advanced perception of the true natural form than is to be found in most miniatures of the Roman style in Germany.
"CONRAD, Abraham, (or Conhadus,) was a Dutch designer and engraver, who flourished about the
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