- phael et l'Antiquité, i. 279; Springer, 260;
Perkins, Essay, 160.
Subject treated also by Francesco Albani, Dresden Gallery; Nicolas Poussin, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Agostino Carracci, Palazzo Farnese, Rome; Luca Giordano, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Domenico Feti, Vienna Museum; School of Botticelli, Dresden Museum.
GALATON of Alexandria, time of Ptolemy
Philopater (222-205 B.C.). Ælian (Var.
hist. xiii. 24) says he painted a picture intended
to cast ridicule on the epic poets of
Alexandria.
GALBRUND, ALPHONSE LOUIS, born
in Paris, June 30, 1810, died at Neuilly-sur-Seine
in June, 1885. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of Richomme and Regnault.
Medal, 1865. Works: St. Medardus
(1850); Chambermaid (1855); Girl
Scholar (1865); Young Housewife (1870);
Consolation (1875); Reverie (1878), Pau
Museum; The King's Cake (1880); Woman
Darning (1882); Gypsy Girl (1885).
GALE, WILLIAM, born in London in
1832. History and genre painter, pupil of
Royal Academy; first exhibited in 1845
Young Celadon and his Amelia. Spent
several years in Italy and travelled in Syria,
Palestine, and Algeria. Works: Weeping
Place of the Jews in Jerusalem (1863); Entrance
into Jerusalem (1867); Return of the
Prodigal (1869); Cupid's Ambassador (1871);
Abraham and Isaac going to Sacrifice (1872);
Eyes to the Blind (1873); Spring-Time in
the East (1874); The Competitive Examination
(1875); Chess-Players, Love-Tale (1876);
Spoils of War (1877); Algerian Interior
(1868); Song of Miriam (1881); Helweh
(1883).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 378.
GALILEO BEFORE BARBERINI,
Charles Louis Müller, Charles S. Smith,
New York; canvas. The astronomer received
by his friend Cardinal Barberini,
who afterwards became Pope Urban VIII.
GALILEO IN PRISON, Karl von Piloty,
Cologne Museum; canvas, H. 10 ft. × 7 ft.
3 in. The astronomer in pensive attitude
looking at some mathematical lines he has
drawn upon the floor, upon which falls a ray
of sunlight. In the background a grated
window through which two monks are observing
him.
GALIMARD, NICOLAS AUGUSTE, born
in Paris, March 25, 1813, died at Montigny-le-Cormeilles
(Seine-et-Oise), Jan. 17, 1880.
Genre painter, fellow pupil with Ingres
under A. Hesse. Medals: 3d class, 1835;
2d class, 1846. Works: Lady of the Castle
in the 16th century; Holy Women at
the Tomb of Christ (1835); Liberty leaning
on Christ (1836); Nausicaä (1841); Angel
(1845); Ode (1846), Luxembourg Museum;
Virgin at Prayer; Jealous Juno; Christ
Blessing (1848), Cathedral of Périgueux;
Virgin in Tears (1849), Church of Jonzac;
Leda (1857); The Papacy (1868); Portrait
of Hesse (1870); Pré-des-Lions in June
(1875); St. Louis, King of France, Henri
Jules de Bourbon, Versailles Museum.—Bellier
de la Chavignerie, i. 601; Chronique
des Arts, January 24, 1880; Am. Art. Rev.,
March, 1880; Kunst-Chronik, xv. 386; Vapereau
(1880), 763.
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GALLAIT, LOUIS, born at Tournay,
March 10, 1810.
History, genre, and
portrait painter, pupil
of Tournay Academy
under Hennequin.
Having
obtained the first
prize at Ghent in
1831, he studied at
the Antwerp Academy,
and in 1834
went to Paris, where his portraits and historical
paintings were soon highly esteemed.
His Abdication of Charles V., painted at
Brussels in 1841, placed him at once at the
head of Belgian historical painters, and won
for him the Belgian Order of Leopold, and
the French Legion of Honour. The city of
Brussels struck a medal in his honour,
Member of Brussels, Antwerp, Paris, Berlin,
and Munich Academies. Prussian Order of
