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to decorate the Escorial, and disappointment and jealousy finally led to his death. Works: Assumption of the Virgin (1669); do., Portrait of Charles II., Madrid Museum; Portraits of Jeanne and Maria of Austria, and Marguerite of Parma, daughters of Charles V., Brussels Museum; Portraits of Philip II., Berlin Museum; St. Peter of Alcantara walking on the Water, Munich Gallery; Portrait of Coello, The Magdalen, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Cean Bermudez; Stirling, iii. 1010; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Viardot, 296; Madrazo, 387.


COENE, CONSTANTINUS, born at Vilvoorden, in 1780, died in Brussels in 1841. Flemish school; history, genre, and landscape painter; pupil of Hendrik van Assche, and in 1809 of Barbiers at Amsterdam; settled afterward in Brussels, where, in 1820, he became professor at the Academy. Great prize in Ghent in 1808. Works: Rubens receiving from Charles I. the Sword with which he had been Knighted (1808), Ghent Museum; Soldier returning from Waterloo (1815), Brussels Museum; Group of Peasants, Haarlem Museum; View in Brussels, Amsterdam Museum.


COENE, JEAN HENRI DE, born at Veder-Brekel, East Flanders, in 1798, died in Brussels, April 6, 1866. Genre painter, pupil of David and J. Paëlinck; lived many years in Paris, afterward professor in Brussels Academy. Exhibited a number of pictures in the Salon, several of which have become well known in France by lithographs. Medal, 2d class, 1837. Works: Misery and Honesty (1835); Pastoral Tournament, Friday the Fasting Day (1837).—Larousse.


COENUS, painter of genealogical tablets, about 300 B.C.—Pliny, xxxv. 40 [140].


COFFIN, W. A., born in Allegheny City, Pa., 1855. Subject painter, pupil of Bonnát in Paris. Exhibited first in the Paris Salon in 1879. Studio in New York. Works: After Breakfast, T. B. Clarke, New York; Idyl, Toneur de Mandoline (1881); Brittany Inn (1882); Examination, Close of Day, August Day (1883); Lady in Black (1885).


COGELS, JOSEPH (sometimes called Cogels Mabilde), born at Brussels in 1786, died at Castle Leitheim, near Donauwörth, in 1831. Landscape and marine painter; pupil of Düsseldorf Academy; visited France, returned to Belgium in 1806 and became a member of Royal Society of Fine Arts at Ghent; went in 1810 to Munich, where he painted for the King and Queen, and the Duke of Leuchtenberg, pictures for their private collections and the Schleissheim Gallery. Member of Antwerp Academy in 1817, honorary member of the Munich Academy in 1824. His paintings, principally landscapes, waterfalls, and old monuments of his native country, are highly esteemed. Works: View of St. Salvator Platz in Munich (1819), Cassel Gallery.—Bryan (Graves).


COGEN, FÉLIX, born at St. Nicolas, Belgium. Genre and animal painter, pupil of F. Devigne. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1875; L. of Honour, 1883. Works: Calves and Heifers, Cows returning from Pasture (1870); Departure for Fishing, Return from Fishing (1874); Shrimp-Fishers on Coast of Flanders (1875); Varech (Sea-weed) Harvest in Holland (1876); Fisherman's Wife on Zuyder-Zee (1878); Inundation Scene (1881); Fisher-*women at Scheveningen (1883).


COGHETTI, FRANCESCO, born at Bergamo, Oct. 4, 1804, died in Rome, April 23, 1875. History painter, pupil in Bergamo of Diotti, and in Rome of Camuccini; President of Accademia di S. Luca, Rome. Order of St. Gregory the Great. Executed a series of decorative compositions in fresco in the Palazzo Torlonia, Rome, in the Cathedral, and in the Bishop's Palace at Bergamo, in the Basilica at Savona, and in the church at Porto Maurizio. Works: Presentation, Assumption, Ascension, Condemnation of St.