English Painter, 1681-1749 English painter. It seems likely that his family origins and name were French. The Painter-Stainers' Company records that he was apprenticed as a house painter to William Clarke from 1696, but by 1710 he had become a marine artist, filling the gap in the market left by the death of Willem van de Velde the younger in 1707. Most of his subsequent career was devoted to careful imitations of van de Velde's style (and, in some cases, of particular pictures), by which, according to Vertue, 'he distinguished himself and came into reputation'. He maintained his links with the Painter-Stainers, of which he had been made a freeman in 1703  Related Paintings of Monamy, Peter :. | Flagship of Sir John Leake,coming to anchor in the bay of Barcelona | Arrival of George II in England after a visit to Hanover | Stern view of the Royal Caroline | The taking of Porto Bello by Vice-Admiral Vernon on 22 November 1739 with six men-o-war only | The Royal yacht Royal Caroline in a Storm |
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COXCIE, Raphael
Flemish painter (b. 1540, Mechelen, d. 1616, Brussels).
Emile Levy
Paris 1826 - Paris 1890. French Academic Painter, 1826-1890. Studied under François-Edward Picot and Abel de Pujol.
COSSA, Francesco del
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1435-1477 Italian painter. Together with Cosimo Tura and Ercole de' Roberti, Cossa was one of the most important painters working in Ferrara and Bologna in the second half of the 15th century. With them he shared an expressive use of line and solidity of form, but he also had a gift for decorative and anecdotal scenes, most evident in the frescoes in the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara.