Constant
JEAN JOSEPH BENJA- MIN, a French portrait painter; born in Paris, June 10, 1845. He studied in the Ecole des Beaux Arts and under Cabanel. He has exhibited with growing distinction, at successive salons, from that of 186 that of 1860, with his "Hamlet," his "Samson" in 1872, his "Scenes from Algiers" in 1873-1874, his great historical painting of "Mohammed II. in 1453" own time. What Constable's pictures in the Exposition of 1878, and in 1885 did was to make a conspicuous rallying- a large Oriental subject, as melodram- atic as possible, with splendid rendering conspicuous rallying- a large Oriental subject, as melodramenry point for the new school. Mr. Henry Marquand presented two fine Constables to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Constable died in London, March 30, 1837. CONSTABLE OF BOURBON.
BOURBON, CHARLES, DUKE OF.
See or CONSTANCE (Ger. Constanz, Konstanz, ancient Constantia), city and lake-port of Germany, in the grandduchy of Baden, occupying the only territory belonging to Germany on the S. side of the Lake of Constance. The chief edifices are a cathedral, the Kaufhaus, in which the famous Council of Constance sat from 1414 to 1418 (and which deposed three antipopes, and condemned Huss and Jerome of Prague); an ancient palace; a grand ducal residence. One of its suburbs is connected atic as possible, with splendid rendering of the human figure and strong effects of color. His noble picture of "Justinian" is in the Metropolitan Art Museum, New York. He was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor in 1878. He died May 26, 1902.