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(IRA TELL A underwent grout perils, hut escaped by the aid of Kosciuszko. Went by invitation of the Duke of Coin-land to Sagan, and thence to Dresden, where in 17!)'.) he became pro- fessor at the Academy. In 1816-21 was in Koine as director of the Saxon art pension- aries. Distinguished and decorated by the King of Saxony and the Duke of Gotha ; also member of several Academies. Works : St. John Baptist. St. Peter, Dresden Gal- lery ; The Arcadians, Callisto asleep, St. Ann instructing the Virgin, Female Figure walking. Fairy on Chariot, Portrait of Duke Frederic IV. of Saxe-Gotha, do. of Minister von Lindenau (1814), and copies after Al- bani, Correggio, and Raphael, Gotha Gal- lery. Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 5!)'2 ; Wur/- bach, v. 314. GEATELLA. See /i/i/ipi, Sebastiano. GRAY, HENRY PETERS, born in New York, June 23, 181!), died there, Nov. 12, LS77. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of Huntington. Vis- ited Europe in 1840, studied in Rome and Venice ; went abroad _ again in 1846, and to Florence in 1871, re- maining four years. Elected N.A. in 1842, President of National Academy from 1809 to 1871. Works : Pride of the Village, R. M. Olyphant ; Wages of Yar, Metropolitan Museum, New York ; Portrait of William Cullen Bryant, Histori- cal Society, ib. ; Cupid begging his Arrow, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia ; Judg- ment of Paris, Corcoran Gallery, Washing- ton ; Twilight Musings ; Blessed are the ' Pure in Heart ; Truth ; Ophelia ; Normandy Girl ; Jessica or the Pride of the Rialto ; Model from Cadore ; Immortality of the Soul, Edwin Hoyt ; Birth of our Flag (1875); Flower of Fiesole, Just Fifteen (1875), M. O. Roberts, New York ; Apple of Discord (1876). Tuckerman, 442. GRAYSON, CLIFFORD PREVOST, born ! in Philadelphia in 1857. Genre painter, pupil of Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris of Gerome. Works : Breton Idyl (1881) ; Going to Market (1882) ; Un fichu temps (1883); Ohe, lecanot! (1884); Fisher-chil- reu at Concarneau (1885). Art Journal (1884), 222. GRAZIANI, ERCOLE, born at Bologna in 1088, died in 17G5. Bolognese school. History painter, pupil of Donato Creti (1671-174!), a coronation of Charles V., by whom is in the Bologna Gallery), whom he surpassed in both design and colouring ; painted a great number of pictures for pub- lic buildings at Bologna and Piacenza, and especially for the churches of Bologna. A orks : St. Peter consecrating St. Apollin- aris amidst an Assembly of Early Clmstiaus, Bologna ; Marriage of St. Catherine, St. Ann teaching the Virgin to read, S. Bar- tolommeo di Reno, ib. ; Ascension, Chiesa della Puritii, ib. ; Annunciation, Madonna delle Rondiui, ib. ; replica of first-named, and Baptism of Christ, Sant' Apollinare, Rome. GREATOREX, ELIZA, born at Manor- Hamilton, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1820. Land- scape painter ; settled in New York in 1839. Pupil of Emile Lambinet in Paris, in 1861 ; earlier helped by the criticisms of Cafferty, W. W. Wotherspoon, and James M. Hart. Has visited Europe repeatedly. Elected an A. N.A. in 18G8. Studio in New York. Works : Road Scene in Connecticut ; Old House in Bloomingdalo ; Joy Bridge Pel- tigor, Ireland ; Amsterdam ; Fort Hamil- ton Long Island ; Bay Ridge ; Normandy Cottage (1881); Fontainebleau Forest, Cres- sonieres-Yeules en Caux (1882); Laurel Run Virginia ; Louis Philippe House in 1868 Bloomingdale, M. de Mendonya ; Somer- endyke Lake Bloomingdale (1884). Kate and Eleanor, daughters of Mrs. Greatorex, also paint and exhibit at the National Acad- emy ; they have studied abroad and under their mother, whose studio they share. Miss Kate Greatorex has exhibited : Last Bit of Autumn (1875); Goethe's Fountain Frankfort (1876); Thistles (1877); Algo- 170