CORNEILLE, Michael, a celebrated painter, was born at Paris in the year 1642, and instructed by his father, who was himself a painter of great merit. Having gained a prize at the academy, young Corneille obtained a pension from Louis XIV. and was sent to Rome, where that prince had founded a school for young artists of genius. Having studied there for some time, he gave up his pension, and applied with great industry to the study of the antique. He is said to have equalled Caracci in drawing, but in colouring he was deficient. Upon his return from Rome he was chosen professor in the academy of Paris, and was employed in all the great works then carrying on at Versailles and Trianon, where are still to be seen some efforts of his genius.