PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
works have long since been forgotten. He died
in Paris in 1707. His widow married Fran9oi8
Bonart, a painter and engraver, and died in Paris
in 1728. Noel Coypel has etched the following plates :
The Virgin caressing the Infant Jesus. The same subject ; larger. The Holy Family.
COYPEL, Noel Nicolas, a painter and etcher, bom in Paris in 1692, was a younger son of Noel Coypel. He recei'ed liis first instruction from h.is father, whom he had the misfortune to lose when he was fifteen years of age. It does not appear that he had the advantage of seeing Italy ; he studied from the best works of art in his own country, and became of sufficient celebrity to be received into the Academy in 1720, when he was twenty-eight years of age. His reception picture was ' Neptune carrying off Amymone.' Amongst his best works were, the ceiling of the chapel of the Virgin in the churcli of St. Saviour, and the altar- piece in the same chapel, representing the Assump- tion. His ' Triumph of Amphitrite,' painted in 1727, was considered the best work that entered the lists for the royal prize then offered. There are several other works of this artist in the churches of Paris. He died in Paris in 1734. We have the four following plates etched by him :
St. Theresa, with several Angels The Triumph of Amphitrite. Jupiter and Autiope. A young Woman caressing a Dove ; afterwards fiuished by iV. Edelinck.
COZENS, Alexander, a natural son of Peter the Great and an Englishwoman from Deptford, was born in Russia at the beginning of the 18th cen- tury, but studied painting in Italy, and then pro- ceeded, in 1746, to England, where he died, in London, in 1786. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1772 to 1781. Some tastefully- designed pen-and-ink sketches by him are in the British Museum, but he chiefly devoted himself to giving instruction and writing various books on art, adorned with numerous illustrations, among which are ' The Principles of Beauty, relative to the Human Head ' (1778), and 'The Shape, Skeleton, and Foliage of Trees' (1771). The South Kensington Museum has two Landscapes by him.
COZENS, John Rodert, tlje son of Alexander Cozens, was born in London in 1752. He visited Italy, and after his return, in 1783, painted in water- colours with great success. He possessed great taste in representing scenes of a still, tender, or melancholy nature. In 1794 he became de- ranged, and died in 1799. The South Kensington Museum has five examples of his work.
COZZA, Carlo, was the son of Giovanni Battista Cozza, and was bom at Ferrara about the year 1700. He was instructed by his father, in whose style he painted several pictures for the clmrches of his native city. In the Chiesa Nuova is a picture by him of the ' Annunciation ; ' in Santa Lucia of 'St. Anthony the Abbot;' and in San Matteo of 'St. Francis of Paola.' He died at Ferrara in 1769.
COZZA, Francesco, a painter and etcher, was a Calabrian, born at Istilo in 1605. He went early in life to Rome, and became a scholar of Domenichino, to whom he attached himself by the most marked affection, and, according to the Abbate Ti;i, finished some of the works of that master after his death. He was received into the Aca- demy at Rome in 1650, and died in that city in 1682. One of his best works is the ' Vergine del Riscatto,' in the church of Santa Francesca Romana at Rome. The Copenhagen Museum possesses a ' Landscape, with Hagar and the Angel,' by him. He etched several excellent plates in the style of Pietro del Po, as :
St. Peter. 1630. Cimon and Pera. Christ sleeping and adored by Angels. St. Mary Magdalene. 1650.
COZZA, GiovANN-i Battista, was bom at Milan in 1676. While he was yet young he settled at Ferrara, where he was much employed for the churches. Without great correctness of design, he possessed a copious invention, and an unusual facility of handling. Of his numerous works at Ferrara, the following are the principal. In the cathedral, the 'Immaculate Conception;' at the Ognissanti, the ' Holy Family ; ' in Santa Lucia, the 'Annunciation;' and in San Guglielmo, the ' Assumption of the Virgin.' He died at Ferrara in 1742.
COZZALE, Grazio, (or Cossale,) was a native of Brescia, who flourished about the year 1605. He is said by Cozzando, in his ' Ristretto della Storia Bresciaua,' to have possessed an uncommon readiness of invention, and in his larger works appears to have imitated the style of Palma without having sunk into his mannerism. His principal works are, the ' Adoration of the Magi,' in S. Maria delle Grazie, at Brescia ; and the ' Pre- sentation in the Temple,' in S. Maria de' Miracoli. This artist was assassinated by one of his sons.
CRAASBECKE. See Craesbeeck.
CRABBE, Frans, (or Van Espleghem,) was a Flemish painter, who became a master of the Guild of St. Luke at Mechlin in 1501, and is supposed to be the same as Frans Minnebroer. He was the son of Jan Crabbe, a painter, but it is not known under whom he studied. He painted in tempera, and possessed the faculty of giving his works so much vigour that they seem to be oil paintings. His heads are in the style of Quintin Massys, but in all other respects his portraits resemble those of Lucas van Leyden. His principal work was a triptych painted over the high altar of the church of the Franciscan convent at Mechlin, the principal subject of which wag the ' Saviour on the Cross,' but this picture was believed to have perished when the church was sacked by the Giieux in the 16th century. In the possession of Mr. F. R. E. Kochler of Radnor Street, London, is 'however a picture signed with ' a Crab ' and believed to be the long- lost work. Crabbe died at Mechlin in 1553, leav- ing a son, Jan Crabbe, who was also a painter, and who died at Mechlin in 1576.
Crabbe is pn..bably identical with the engraver who is known as the ' Master of the Crab,' by %vhora we have 50 plates, mostly in the style of Lucas van Leyden, but in some cases in that of Jan van Mabuse. 'They are described in Bartsch's 'Peintre-Graveur,' vii. 527 and Passavant's ' Peintre-Graveur,' iii. 15, and among them the following are the best :
The Annunciation. The Nativity. Christ taking leave of His Mother. The Pnssion ; fourteen plates. Christ on the Cross. Ecce Homo. The Four Evangelists ; four plates. Jephthah's Daughter. Esther before Ahasuerus. Lucretia.
CRABETH. Adbiaen, of Gouda. Three por-
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