PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
Bologna, Costa was taken into the service of the
Marquis Francesco Gonzaga of Mantua, where he
remained until his death, his chief works being in
the palace of St. Sebastian. Of other pictures
which he produced at that time can be mentioned
a ' Virgin and Child between two Saints,' in the
Ferrara Gallery ; the ' Allegory of the Court of
Isabella of Este,' now in the Louvre ; a small
diinych formerly in the possession of Sir Charles
Eur^tlake ; and a 'Madonna and Saints,' of 1525, in
the church of Sant Andrea, Mantua. Costa pro-
bably painted some of the frescoes which .adorn the
Scliulcheria in the castle of Mantua. By him we
have also one engraving, the ' Presentation in the
Temple,' from the sketch for an altar-piece by
himself, dated 1502, the year in which were en-
graved the two Saints by Francia, by whom Costa
appears to have been led to engrave the plate in
question. Although much in the style of Francia,
it is treated in a freer and more picturesque manner.
His death took place at Mantua in 1535. Of his
pictures the following may be noted :
Berlin. Museum. Pieta. 1504. „ „ Presentation in the Temple. 1502. Madonna, adored by Giovanni Beutivoglio and his Family (in tempera). 14SS. The Triumph of Life and of Death (in tempeya). ^Vision of the Apocalypse ; fresco. S. Cecilia. Two subject-s from the Life of St. Cecilia ; frescoes (the eight other compartments painted by Francia and his pupils). The Twelve Apostles (in tempera). 14S5. St. Jerome. Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (some- tivies wrongly ascribed to Cossa). Virgin enthroned, surrounded by Saints. 1497. St.Petronius between SS. Francis and Dominic. 1502. Portrait of a Man in a red Cap. Madonna and Child enthroned, with Angels. 15**5. ,, Hampton Court. Portrait of a Lady, probably Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua. Virgin surrounded by Saints. 1525. Adoration of the Magi. 1499. Court of Isabella of Este, Duchess of Mantua. Mvthological Scene. Bologjja. .. Giacomo Maggiore. S. I'etronio. „ S. Gic^tanni J in Monte, j „ Pinacoteca. riorence. Pitti Palace. London. Kat. Gall. Mantua. S. Andrea. Milan. Paris. Brera. Louvre.
COSTA, Lorenzo, ' the younger,' who was bom in 1637, was the son of Girolamo Costa, and was instructed in the art of painting by his uncle Ippolito. He worked in concert with Taddeo Zuccaro in the Belvedere at Rome, about 1560, and died in 1583.
COSTA, ToMMASO, a painter of perspective views, and a pupil of Jean Boulanger, was born at Sassu- olo in 1635. He resided at Reggio, and died in 1690. He is represented in the Estense Gallery, Modena, by an exterior and an interior.
COSTANZI, Placido, who was born in Rome in 1688, was a pupil of B. Luti, and painted historical subjects. The most esteemed of his larger works, is his ' St. Camillus,' in Santa Maria Maddalena ; in which he has aspired to the imitation of Domeni- chino. His ' Resuscitation of Tabitha,' in Santa Maria degli Angeli, is the original of a mosaic in St. Peter's. He also painted in fresco the ceilings of the tribunes in Santa Maria in Campo Marzo and San Gregorio, and was much employed in painting figures in the landscapes of other artists, particu- larly in those of Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizonte. He died in 1759. A portrait of George Keith, Earl Marischal of Scotland, painted by him in Rome in 1752, is in the National Portrait Gallery, and ' St. Pancras and the Infant Christ,' by him, is in the Dublin National Gallery.
COSTE, Jean, a French historical painter, who flourished in the 14th century, was the painter in ordinary and favourite of King John. He distin- tinguished himself especially by some paintings of great merit which he executed in oil at the castle of Val-de-Rueil in 1356. He died in 1391.
COSTELLO, LODISA Stuart, the daughter of Colonel Costello, was bom in France in 1799. When about twenty years of age she visited London, and from 1822 to 1839 exliibited miniature portraits at the Royal Academy. She was likewise an authoress, and published ' Specimens of the Early Poetry of France,' the ' Rose Garden of Persia,' and other successful works. She died at Boulogne in 1870.
COSTER, Adam de. See De Coster.
COSTER, Anne. See Vallater.
COSTER, D., was a Flemish engraver, who flour- ished about tlie year 1700. He was chiefly em- ployed by the booksellers ; and. among other plates, engraved a portrait of Frans Hals, the painter, after Van Dvck.
COSWAY, Maria Cecilia Louisa, whose maiden name was Hadfield and whose father was a Manchester man, was bom at Florence in 1759. From a very early age she showed great powers of drawing, and as a child gained a silver medal for proficiency in that art. In 1778 she was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, and was one of the very youngest members ever admitted into that select society. She was also an excellent musician, and played the organ at the Monastery of the Visitation, where she had been educated. Her father died in 1778-9, and then at the earnest recommendation of her friend Angelica KaufEmann she came to London with her mother, sister and brother. At Mr. Townley's house in Park Street she met Richard Cosway, who was attracted by her unusual beauty and fell in love with her. They were married at St. George's on January 18, 1781, and Mr. Townley gave the bride awaj'. She was greatly attached to her eccentric husband, and they travelled on the Continent very much together, Mr. Cosway at times returning to England alone, and leaving his wife in France and Italy busy upon carrying out a scheme which interested her greatly, that of founding a special religious order for teaching and attaching a high-class girls' school to the convent. This scheme she started first at Lyons under her good friend Cardinal Fescli, and with the full approval and financial assistance of her husband, but eventually she transfered it to Lodi, where, by the aid of the Duke of that place, she obtained an old monastery which she fitted up for her purpose. During the life of her only Little girl, who died at the age of six, Maria Cosway was in England, and exhibited many works at the Royal Academy, painting miniatures and also works in oil and pastel, and preparing illustrations f jr Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and Macklin's I'oets. She also cleverly copied some of the works of Correggio and manyof her husband's miniatures. She tenderly nursed Richard Cosway during his mental disorder
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