hand. Delessert sale, Paris (1869), 150,000 francs; Narischkine sale, Paris (1883), 160,000 francs—Smith, iv. 229; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 202; L'Art (1883), i. 113.
CONTARINI, GIOVANNI, Cavaliere,
born in Venice in 1549, died in 1605. Venetian
school; history and portrait painter;
contemporary of Palma, studied works of
Titian and Tintoretto. Went to Germany
and painted much at court of Rudolph II.,
by whom he
was knighted.
Works: Resurrection,
S. Francesco di Paola, Venice;
Crucifixion, Chiesa della Croce, Venice; St.
Jerome, Brera, Milan; St. Sebastian, Berlin
Museum; Baptism of Christ, Vienna Museum;
his own portrait, Uffizi, Florence.
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CONTI, TITO, born in Italy; contemporary. History and genre painter; lives in Florence. Works: Wine Taster, Samuel Hawk Collection, New York; Meeting of Dante and Beatrice; Meeting of Petrarch and Laura; Dante and his Friends; Lute Player (1883).
CONVENT, RETURN TO, Eduardo
Zamacoïs, R. L. Cutting, New York; canvas.
Scene: entrance to a Spanish Franciscan
monastery, with mendicant monks returning
from a begging expedition to the village,
the roofs of which, covered with snow, are
seen in the background; several donkeys
are tied up to rings in the wall, but one
balking animal is pulling an exasperated
monk backwards, his track making a slide
in the snow. Photogravure in Art Treasures
of America.—Art Treas. of Amer., ii. 33.
CONVOCATION OF CLERGY, Sir John
Gilbert, Royal Academy, London; canvas.
A meeting of dignitaries of the Roman
Church, listening to a monk who stands defending
some point of doctrine from a volume
held in his hand; background, tapestry
hangings representing a triumphal
church procession. Painted in 1870-71;
presented to Academy as his diploma picture.
Etched by L. Flameng in Portfolio.—Portfolio
(1878), 113.
CONZ, GUSTAV, born at Tübingen in
1832. Landscape painter, pupil of Stuttgart
Art School under Funk; studied in
Munich in 1856-58, and in Düsseldorf, in
1862, under Oswald Achenbach; then for
one year in Rome, and in 1865 became professor
at the Katharinen Stift in Stuttgart.
Works: View in Upper Bavaria (1862); Coast
of Terracina; View of Aricia; View near Olevano;
View of S. M. della Vittoria in Rome.—Müller,
112.
COOK, H., born in England; contemporary.
Landscape painter. Exhibits chiefly
at Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Lago Maggiore
(1880); View in Venice (1881); Church
and Bridge of St. Polo, San Giorgio—Venice
(1882); Sunset—Venice (1883).
COOKE, EDWARD WILLIAM, born in
London in 1811, died near Groombridge,
Jan. 4, 1880. Son and pupil of George
Cooke, engraver (1781-1834); studied architecture
and perspective under the elder Pugin;
first exhibited at Royal Academy in
1835, Honfleur Fishing Boats, and Hay-Barge
off Greenwich. Two years later he
went to Holland, which he re-visited many
times; travelled also in Spain, France, Italy,
and Egypt, painting many architectural subjects,
landscapes, and marine views. Became
A.R.A. in 1851, and R.A. in 1864. His Dutch
Boats in a Calm and The Boat House are in
the National Gallery; others in S. Kensington
Museum.—Cats. Nat. Gal. and R. Acad.;
Sandby, ii. 327; Graves, 52.
COOMANS, JOSEPH, born at Brussels
in 1816. History and genre painter; first
instructed in Ghent by Hasselaere, a mediocre
artist, then pupil of Antwerp Academy
under N. de Keyser and Wappers; went with
the French army to Algiers, where he spent
several years, then visited Italy, Turkey,
Greece, and the Crimea; in Italy again in
1857, since when, attracted by the Pompeian
paintings, he has painted almost exclusively
subjects from antiquity. Works: Conquest
of Jerusalem by the Crusaders (1841); Battle
of Ascalon (1842); The Deluge; Landscape
in Province of Constantine; Emigration of
