PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
traits. He was a great painter among the English
artists of his day, and is not to be judged by the
present standard ; being, in a manner, self-taught,
he achieved much more than many who had
received academical instruction. He lived, from
the time he settled in England, at a house in
George Street, Hanover Square, where he died in
1815, and where his son, Lord Lyndhurst, also lived
and died in 1864. Copley was buried in Croydon
church. The following are some of his principal
works : but many important portraits and sketches,
including his last portrait of himself, were destroyed
by the great fire at Boston in 1872.
The Death of Lord Chatham (painted in 1779-80 ; in the National Gallery, where art also monochrome studies for the picture).
The Death of Major Peirson (in the National Gallery). 1733. The Siege and Relief of Gibraltar (at Guildhall : a study for this picture is in the National Gallery ; and i-arious sketches for it are in the South Kensington Museum). Tue Princesses Mary, Sophia, and Amelia, daughters of George 111. (at Buckingham Palace). Samuel and Eli. (Destroyed lnj fire at Mr. Graves's (n Pall Mall, in 1867.) Charle.s 1. ordering the arrest of Five Members of the House of Commons. The Five Impeached Members brought back in triumph to Westmiuster. The Speaker thanking the Sheriffs for protecting the impeached members. The Dukes of Suffolk and Northumberland offering to Lady Jane Grey the Crown of England (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 180S ; now in the possession of Mr. Amory of Boston). Kesurrection of our Lord (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1812 : his last exhilnted uork). The Battle of the Boyne. The Assassination of tlie Duke of Buckingham. Charles I. signing the death-warrant of the Earl of Strafford. The King's Escape from Hampton Court. The House of Commons Wsitiug the Army at Hounslow. A Conversation. 1776. The Copley Family (in the possession of Mr. Amory of Boston). A Boy attacked by a Shark. 1773. Portrait of Lord Heathfield (at Guildhall: a study is in the National Portrait Gallery). Portrait of the Earl of Mansfield (in the National Portrait Gallery). 1783. A ' Sketch of the Life and a List of some of the Works of John Singleton Copley,' by A. T. Perkins, was privately printed at Boston in 1873.
COPPA, Antonio. See Giaeola.
COPPA, Stefako, was a native of Italy, and flourished at Rome about the year 1776. In con- junction with Giuseppe Perini, he executed the plates from the antique statues in the Clementine Gallery. He also engraved a print of the Ascen- sion, after Giovanni Lanfranco.
COPPENS, AUGUSTINUS, a Flemish landscape painter and engraver, was a native of Brussels, where he was received into the Guild of St. Luke in 1698. He engraved some plates representing views of ruins, and architecture, which are executed in a neat, finished style.
COPPI, GiACOMO, called Del Meglio, a Florentine historical painter, was bom at Peretola in 1523. He studied under Vasari, and worked with him at F'lirence, where he died in 1591. His own portrait h limself is in the UfEzi.
" COPPIN. See Delf.
COPPO Di MARCOVALDO. See Maecovaldo.
COQDERET, Pierre Charles, a French en- graver, was born in Paris in 1761, but the date of his death is not recorded. He studied under Janinet, and produced a large number of beautiful works. Besides whole-length portraits of Mar- shals Massfoa and Jourdan, and General Pichegru, after Hilaire Le Dru, as well as several plates for Desnoyer's ' Recueil d'Estampes,' may be mentioned :
Junius Brutus condemning his Sons ; after Lethi'ere. The Death of Virginia ; after the same. The Ninth Thermidor ; a frieze ; after the same. An Interior ; after Carle Vernet. A Hunting Scene ; after the same. A Portrait ; after Boucher.
COQUES, Gonzales. See Cocx.
COQUIN, Louis, called Cossin, was a French painter and line-engraver, who was born at Troyes in 1627, and died in Paris after 1686. We have by him some portraits, and a few subjects after various masters, executed with the graver in a style that has not much to recommend it. This artist has signed his plates Coijuin, Cauquin, Cossinus, and Cossiii. He assisted Collet in producing the 'Book of Goldsmiths' Designs' published in 1663, his plates being marked L. C- The follo'n'ing engravings are by him :
PORTRAITS. Louis XV., King of France ; life-size. Valentin Conrart, of the French Academy ; after C. Le Fevre. Frani;ois Cbauveau, engraver ; after Le Febure. Carl Johanu, Count von Konigsmark ; after Lahl.
SUBJECTS AFTER VARIOUS MASTERS. The Virgin Mary : after Lebrun. St. John the Evangelist suspended over a Cauldron of boiling Oil ; after the same. The Stoning of St. Paul at Lystra ; after J. B. de Chainpaiune. The School of Athens ; after Raphael.
CORBAUX, Fanny, water-colour painter, was bom in 1812. In 1827, after being self-tanght, she gained the silver medal of the Society of Arts, and in 1830 the gold medal. She was the same year elected an honorary member of the Society of British Artists, and in 1839 a member of the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours. She was further known as a student of and writer on Oriental subjects and biblical exegesis, and was granted a Civil List pension. She died at Brighton, February 1, 1883.
CORBET, Matthew Ridley, was bom at South Willingham, Lincolnshire, in 1850. After studying at the'Slade School he joined the schools of the Royal Academy and started painting portraits. Having spent three years in Rome under the tuition of Signer Giovanni Costa, he devoted his attention entirely to the painting of landscape, particularly of Italian scenery. He exhibited first in London in 1871 at the Grosvenor Gallery and afterwards at the New Gallery, and for the first time in 1884 exhibited at the Royal Academy two pictures entitled 'Morning Glory' and ' Arno in Flood.' Five years later at the Paris Exhibition of 1889 he gained a bronze medal for his 'Sunrise.' In the same year ' Morning,' an English landscape, and in 1901 ' Val d'Arno,' a scene in Italy, were purchased under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest. Among his other pictures were ' Autumn Rains' and 'Passing Storm' (189G), 'Carrara Mountains' (1897), 'Florence in Spring' (1898), 'The Dead Knight ' (1899), and 'Sunrise' (1902). Corbet, who was made an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1902, died in London the same year,
a few months after his election. H. C. S.
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