GASSEL GASSEL, LUCAS, born at Helmont, Bra- [ Guard in Courtyard of Louvre (1831); En- bant, about 1500, died at Brussels about : trance to Harbor of Boulogne ; Needles at 1550. Flemish school ; practised landscape Isle of Wight; Shakespeare Cliff; View of painting in Brussels, where he was an inti- mate friend of the painter-poet Lampsonius. He painted in the fantastic manner of Pate- nicr, and enlivened his landscapes with Old and New Testament subjects. His pictures Loch Lomond. Bellier de la Chaviguerie, are rare, as he painted but little. Works : i. G14 ; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 105 ; Larousse. St. George, Louvre, Paris ; Landscape, Lille J GASTIXEAU, HENRY, born in 1797, Museum ; Landscape with Judah and Tamar died at Camberwell, Surrey, in 187G. Land- (1548), Vienna Museum. The Land- scape painter in water-colours, pupil of the ft^ scape in the Contest between Apollo Royal Academy ; commenced as an engraver, V*f*. and Pan, by Goltzius, Dresden Gal- then took up oil-painting, and in 1818 be- Icry, is ascribed to Gassel. Allgem. came an associate and in 1824 a member of d. Biogr., viii. :i(i ( .) ; Biog. nat. de Belgique, the Water-Colour Society ; was intimately vii. 4117;. Jour. desB. Arts (18G4), 88; (187S), Connected with Turner, David Cox, and 118 ; Kramm, ii. 5:54. : Copley Fielding. Works : Penrliyn Castle, GASSEN, GOTTLIEB, born in Coblentz { Netley Abbey, South Kensington Museum, in 1805 or 1807. History painter, pupil , London ; Klamme Pass in Styria (1855); and follower of Cornelius, among the first j Glenarm Antrim, Hospice and Pass of St. to paint in fresco at Munich for King Louis Gothard (18G2); Pass of Killiecrankie (18G7). I. Works : Storming of the Godesberg near GASTON DE FOIX (?), Girolamo Sa- Bonn by Duke William V. of Bavaria, Ar- rulilo, Louvre; canvas, H. i5 ft. x 4 ft.; cades, Royal Garden, Munich ; eleven scenes , signed. A knight in armour, half recum- t'rom Poems of Walthcr von der ogelweide, bent, in a gloomy chamber, his form re- Royal Palace, Munich ; ceiling paintings in i fleeted in mirrors. Long called a portrait Loggia of Pinakothek ; paintings in Trinity of Gaston de Foix, by Giorgione ; but prob- Church, Wcissenthurm, near Coblentz. ably a picture painted to show that painting GASSIES, JEAN BRUNO, born in Bor- is preferable to sculpture, because a given deaux, Oct. 25, 1780, died in Paris, Oct. form can be reproduced on canvas by the 12, 18:52. French school ; history, genre, judicious use of reflecting surfaces. Rep- und landscape painter, pupil of Vincent lica, formerly belonging to Charles I., at and Lacour in Paris. Painted many bibli- Hampton Court. Villot, Cat. Louvre ; C. & cal, as well as French mediaeval and mod- C., N. Italy, ii. 419 ; Law, Hist. Cat. Harnp- crn subjects. Works : Labourer holding tor. Court, 43. Skull and Rusty Sword (1810), Douai Mu- GATTA, Don BARTOLOMMEO DELLA, scum ; Hagar and Ishmael (1811), Brus- , born about 1408, died in Arezzo in 1491. sels Museum ; Virgil reading the /Eueid to t Florentine school. Learned miniature Augustus (1814); Horace at Virgil's Tomb ; painting in the Camaldolensian Convent of (1817); Portrait of Louis XVIII. (1819), the Angeli, Florence, where he was a friar ; Bordeaux Museum ; Christ and Peter walk- j became abbot of the Convent of S. Clemente, ing on the Sea, Homer reciting to tlie Shep- , Arezzo, and decorated its walls with frescos, herds (1819); St. Louis visiting the Plague- ' now destroyed. Some panels by him in the Stricken Soldiers, Fight of the Thirty (1822); public gallery, Arezzo, one dated 1479, show Clemency of Louis XII. (1824), Versailles careful and patient execution, but little sense Museum ; Shipwreck of a Fisherman and of colour. In 1479-8(5 he was in Rome, his Child (1827); Bivouac of the National where he worked in the Sistine, according 112
