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CHARLES COLLINS. 



(Born 1680. Died 1744.) 



/^HARLES COLLINS, born in 1680, was 

 ^-^ essentially a painter of English bird-life. 

 His works are very beautiful, being executed with 

 rare delicacy and sense of colour. He possessed 

 a marvellous eye for the distinctive pose and 

 character of a bird and his work betrays close and 

 accurate study of birds in their haunts. His 

 pictures of game are particularly true to nature. 

 He painted his own portrait with a hare and birds. 



A picture of " Poultry," painted in 1733, from 

 the collection of Sir G. Osborne Page Turner, 

 Bittlesden Park, Woburn, was sold at Christie's in 

 1824. 



Another sale, in 1825, included " A Landscape," 

 with woodman and a woman with a basket ; this 

 picture belonged to Mr. James Milstead, the 

 Terrace, Edgware Road. 



He executed three oil paintings of British Birds 

 in the year 1736 ; each picture measures 18 inches 

 by 12 inches. These paintings, executed 162 years 

 ago, are in e.xcellent preservation and are in their 



