A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
{For the T'ernon } Gallery,
A Persian Warrior; after Tf'. Etti/.
The Ruined Temple {after R. Jfilsm
The Hooka Badar. 1 After fVilkie: far the mikie
A Group of Camels. ) Gallery.
The Pasture— Osboroe ; after T. Sidney Cooper.
The Queen's Horses ; after J. F. Herring.
The Home Eipected ; after Pf. Mulready.
Rustic Cirility ; after W. Collins.
Hulks ; after Prout.
The Cornfield ; after Constable.
Primrose Gatherers ; after Birktt Foster.
Touchstone and Andn-y ; after J. Pettie.
The Mountain Shepherd ; after J. Linnell.
Showery Weather; after Vicat Cole.
Oxen at tlie Tank — Geneva; after Sir E. Landseer.
The Shepherd ; after Rosa Bonhevr.
Their only Harvest ; after Colin Hunter.
Home again ; after E. A. Waterlow.
COUSEN, John, a landscape engraver, was born at Bradford in Yorkshire in 1804, and was articled to John Scott, the animal engraver. His larger works after Turner, Stnnfield, and others are of great excellence, but his exquisite taste is best displayed in his smaller plates after Turner, especi- ally those in the ' Rivers of France,' which are full of poetic feeling. He died at South Norwood in 1880, but had retired from the practice of his art some sixteen years before, in consequence of ill- health.
His more important works are : Mercury and Herse ; after Turner. Towing the Victory into Gibraltar ; after Stanfield The Morning after the Wreck ; after the lame. Calais Pier: Fishing-Boats ofif Calais. ^ Snow-Storm : Hannibal and his Army crossing the Alps. Peace : Burial at Sea of the Body of Sir Dand Wilkie. St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. ^ The Battle of Trafalgar ; after Stanfeld. The Canal of the Giudecca and Church of the Jesuits, Venice ; after the same. The Old Pier at Littlehampton ; after Sir A. W. Callcott. Returning from Market ; after the same. Cattle : Early Morning on the Cumber- ) land Hills ; after T. Sidney Cooper. The Mountain Torrent; after Sir E. Landseer. The Cover Side ; after F. R. Lee. Rest in the Desert ; after TV. J. Mailer. A Woodland View ; after Sir D. Wilkit. J
COUSIN, Jean, may be regarded as the founder of the French school, as previous to his time the painters of his country confined themselves to portrait painting. He was born at Soucy, near Sens, in 1500 or 1501, and died about 1589, at all events before 1593. Little is known of his life, with certainty, except that his first occupation was glass-painting at Sens, and that he afterwards established himself as a goldsmith at Pari.s. His principal work, as a painter, is the ' Last Judgment,' which was formerly in the convent of the Minimes at Vincennes, but is now in the Louvre. It is a grand composition, and the design is more in the taste of Parmegiano than the French style. He was a sculptor as well as a painter, but he excelled especially aa a painter upon glass. He was in every respect superior to his rival, Jean Duvet. As a painter on glass, the windows of the Sainte- Chapelle at Vincennes are his best works. They represent the ' Annunciation,' the ' Approach of the Last Judgment,' and full-length portraits of Francis I. and Henry II. Lenoir regards these magnificent windows as the finest monuments of painting upon glass which exist in France. He also painted
After Turner: for the Turner Gallery. For the t'ernon Gallery. windows in the Cathedral at Sens with the Legend of St. Eutropius, dated 1530, and others in the ChSteau of Anet and elsewhere. TIjc windows which Cousin painted for the church of St. Gervais at Paris were destroyed about 1775. A picture uf the ' Descent from the Cross,' bearing date 1523, in the Museum at Mentz, and other subject pic- tures, are attributed to him ; and there also exist records of several family portraits by him : but the painting in the Louvre is the only known authentic work by his hand. It has been engraved by Pieter De Jode the elder. Various miniatures in books, in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and elsewhere, are said to be by Cousin, who was also an engraver on metal, and has left etchings of the ' Annunciation,' the ' Holy Family,' the ' Descent from the Cross,' the ' Conversion of St. Paul,' ' Bacchus and the Vintage,' and ' A Man holding a tablet' But it is by his designs for woodcuts, some of which he himself engraved, that Cousin is now best known. The most important of these are the designs which he made for the Bible published by Jean Le Clerc in 1590 ; the ' Entree de Henri II. a Paris,' 1549 ; the ' Entree de Henri II. et Catherine de M6dicis 4 Rouen,' 1551 ; the ' Eloge et Tombeau de Henri II.,' 1560; the 'Livrede CoutumesdeSens, 1551 ; the ' Vsaige et description de I'Holometre,' 1555; the 'Songe de Poliphile,' 1561; and the ' Metamorphoses ' and ' Epistres ' of Ovid of 1566 and 1571. In 1560 he pubhshed his ' Livre de Per- spective,' and in 1571 his 'Livre de Pourtraicture,' which treats of the proportions of the human figure, and displays considerable knowledge.
,M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot published in 1872 an 'Etude sur Jean Cousin,' which is very complete and full of interest, and in 1873 a folio ' Recueil des CEuvres choisies de Jean Cousin.'
COUSINET, Catheeine E. See Lempereur.
COUSINS, Henky, the brother of Samuel Cousins, was also an engraver, and practised in London. He engraved many portraits in mezzotint, and some other plates ; among them ' Refreshment,' after Landseer; 'Prayer,' after Sant; 'Thelnfint Shake- speare,' after Romney ; and ' Home of the Home- loss,' after T. Faed. He died at Dorking in 1864.
COUSINS, Samuel,, mezzotint engraver, was born at Exeter, May 9, 1801, and received his early education in his native city. He is said to have astonished his friends while still a child by the truth and spirit of the portraits he was con- stantly drawing in pencil. At the age of eleven he gained a silver palette from the Society of Arts for a pencil copy of James Heath's plate of the 'Good Shepherd,' after Murillo, and in the following year won the Society's silver medal. His vocation was determined by a chance meeting with the late Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, who saw the boy sketching outside a printseller's window in Exeter. Recognizing the precocious talent of the copyist, he helped him to London, where he was apprenticed to S. W. Reynolds. After working as an apprentice for seven years, Cousins remained with Reynolds four years as assistant, and a few plates of this date bear the joint signature of master and pupil. Cousins' first independent work was a commission from Sir T. Dyke Acland for a plate after Lawrence's group of Lad^- Acland and her children. Lawrence was so pleased with the result that he wished to engage the young engraver to work exclusively for him. This, how- ever, Cousins would not agree to. He, however,
undertook a second plate after Lawrence, the
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