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century. He rebuilt London Bridge of timber in the year 1163. He died 1205.
COLEMAN, Edwabd, still-life painter. He practised at Birmingham about 1830. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1819 and 1820, ' Dead Game ; ' and in 1822 a portrait, his last contribution. His pic- tures were well and rapidly painted, out do not possess much merit as works of art.
COLEMAN, William, engraver. He was one of the early engravers on wood, and was distinguished by several premiums which he received from the Society of Arts, 1776-77. He died in Duke's Court, Bow Street, December 1807.
COLLET. John, portrait painter. Little is known of him. He retired from his
Srofession to Chelsea, where he died, anuary 17, 1771. He was distinguished as * John Collet, senior.*
COLLET, John, subject painter. He was born in London about 1725. Was a pupil of George Lambert, and studied at the St. Martin's Lane School. He was of a respectable family, his father filling a public office, and possessing a small inde- pendence, and was by some styled an amateur. He painted humorous subjects and plagiarised Hogarth, but missed his deep moral He was a sny man, of grave habits and conversation, yet his pictures were sometimes displeasinglv vulgar. His 'Female Bruisers' is of this class. He painted 'The Love Match,' a series of designs ; ' The Recruiting Sergeant,' a ser- vile imitation of Hogarth, some of the principal figures actually copied from him ;
- Picquet, or Virtue in Danger ; ' and ' The
Tailor riding to Brentford/ by which he was best known in his day. From 1765 to 1775 he exhibited with the Free Society of Artists. Several of his works were en- graved by Goldar and published by Caring- ton Bowles and by Sayer, of Fleet Street, and are not of the most pure character. He acquired a considerable addition to his property on the death of a relative, and retired to Chelsea, where he lived several years, and died in Cheyne Bow, August 6, 1780. He etched some of his own designs, among others two caricatures of anti- quaries, and published a Drawing-book, containing' some academy figures.
COLLIER, John (known as ' Tim Bob- bin ^^comic draftsman. He was born near Warrington, where his father held a small curacy and. kept a school. He was intended for the Church, but his father becoming blind, he was put out apprentice to a Dutch loom-weaver. Eccentric and full of spirits, he managed to obtain a re- lease from his master, and though very young, was able to support himself as an itinerant teacher, going from one small town to another, generally keeping both a
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day and a'night school for reading, writing; and accounts, and then found a place with a pay of 201. a year as usher in a school, to which he eventually succeeded. He learned to play on the hautboy, drew land- scapes, attempted some heads, and made some enemies by his satirical verses. He added to his means by painting signs in his vacant hours, and, it is said, altar-pieces for chapels. At last he found a more profit- able employment in drawing faces with grotesque expression, of which he sold large numbers, leaving them at inns, when the landlord disposed of them; so that with teaching, painting, and his writings, he managed to live to the age of 80. He published 'Shude Hill Fight,' a poem, 1757; 'The Cobbler's Politics;' 'The Human Passions,' 25 plates; 'The Lan* cashire Dialect,' 1775, with seven rudely clever copper-plates, apparently from his own designs. Richard Townley wrote ' The Life of Tim Bobbin, Esa^ 1806.
COLLINGS, S., subject painter. He is best known as a caricaturist, whose works were engraved in the 'Wits' Magazine,' 1784. But he was also an exhibitor at the Academy, contributing, in 1784, ' The Children in the Wood,' followed by ' The Chamber of Genius,' 'The Triumph of Sensibility,' and in 1789, when his name appears for the last time m the catalogue, 'Tne Frost on the Thames, sketched on the root.'
COLLINS, Charles, stiU-life painter. He painted birds, game, and works of this class early in the 18th century. He has introduced his own portrait, wearing his hat, in a group with a hare and birds. He died 1744.
COLLINS, Jacob, engraver. He prac- tised in obscurity till the end of the 17th century. He engraved portraits and frontis- pieces for books.
COLLINS, James, engraver, chiefly of views of buildings. Among his works is a large-sized view of Canteroury Cathedral. He practised about 1715.
COLLINS, John, engraver. Practised towards the end of the 1 7th century. There are some indiflferent portraits by him — ' The Funeral Procession of George, Duke of Albemarle ' — and some etchings.
COLLINS, John, landscape painter. Some landscapes with figures by him, in a scenic manner, from the ' Jerusalem Deli- vered/ were finely engraved by Sandby and Booker.
COLLINS, Riohabd, topographical draftsman. Was the son of a painter at Peterborough. He studied under Dahl. He was an antiquarian, and made many topographical drawings. A drawing by him of the front and grand vestibule of Peterborough Minster was engraved by Vander Gucht. Two drawings by him
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