COLYER, Vincent, painter, born in Bloomingdale, New York, in 1825; died on Contentment island, Connecticut, 12 July, 1888. He studied four years in New York with John R. Smith, and then was a pupil at the National academy, of which he became an associate member in 1849, and from that time until the beginning of the civil war he painted in New York city. After the war, during which he had devoted all his time to his duties as a mereber of the Christian and the Indian commissions, he settled at Rowayton, in the town of Darien, Connecticut His works include "Johnson Straits, British Columbia" ; "Columbia River" (1875); " Pueblo"; "Passing Shower" (1876); "Home of the Yackamas, Oregon" ; "Darien Shore, Connecticut "; " Rainy Day on Connecticut Shore " (1881); "Winter on Connecticut Shore "(1884); " Spring Flowers" (1885); and " French Waiter" (1886).