Clatterer

One who clatters; a prater; a babbler. Clatteringly, adv. With a clattering manner. Claude Lorrain, ( klawd ',) a celebrated landscape painter, B. in Lorraine, 1600. His real name was CLAUDE GELÉE, and he was the son of poor parents, who put him apprentice to a pastry-cook. The love of art, however, prevailed over the circumstances in which he was placed, and having received some instructions in drawing from his brother, who was a wood-engraver, he went to Rome, and was employed as cook and color-grinder by the painter Ta i, from whom he received instructions in the fundamental principles of his art. He gradually won his way upwards to independence and fame, and by 1630 was known as a good landscape-painter. Sandrart was his intimate companion, and first led him to paint from nature. In the study of nature he was unwearied; pa ing entire days in the fields, noting every change in the aspect of nature from sunrise to sunset. The fruits of this patient observation are seen, especially in his admirable treatment of aërial perspective. One of his most celebrated landscapes represents a little grove of the Villa Madama near Rome, for which Pope Clement XI. offered as much gold as would be required to cover the surface of the painting. According to the most general opinion, he D. in Rome, 1682. confining.