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GASSEL, LUCAS, born at Helmont, Brabant, about 1500, died at Brussels about 1550. Flemish school; practised landscape painting in Brussels, where he was an intimate friend of the painter-poet Lampsonius. He painted in the fantastic manner of Patenier, and enlivened his landscapes with Old and New Testament subjects. His pictures are rare, as he painted but little. Works: St. George, Louvre, Paris; Landscape, Lille Museum; Landscape with Judah and Tamar (1548), Vienna Museum. The Landscape in the Contest between Apollo and Pan, by Goltzius, Dresden Gallery, is ascribed to Gassel.—Allgem. d. Biogr., viii. 369; Biog. nat. de Belgique, vii. 497; Jour. des B. Arts (1864), 88; (1878), 118; Kramm, ii. 534.

GASSEN, GOTTLIEB, born in Coblentz in 1805 or 1807. History painter, pupil and follower of Cornelius, among the first to paint in fresco at Munich for King Louis I. Works: Storming of the Godesberg near Bonn by Duke William V. of Bavaria, Arcades, Royal Garden, Munich; eleven scenes from Poems of Walther von der Vogelweide, Royal Palace, Munich; ceiling paintings in Loggia of Pinakothek; paintings in Trinity Church, Weissenthurm, near Coblentz.

GASSIES, JEAN BRUNO, born in Bordeaux, Oct. 25, 1786, died in Paris, Oct. 12, 1832. French school; history, genre, and landscape painter, pupil of Vincent and Lacour in Paris. Painted many biblical, as well as French mediæval and modern subjects. Works: Labourer holding Skull and Rusty Sword (1810), Douai Museum; Hagar and Ishmael (1811), Brussels Museum; Virgil reading the Æneid to Augustus (1814); Horace at Virgil's Tomb (1817); Portrait of Louis XVIII. (1819), Bordeaux Museum; Christ and Peter walking on the Sea, Homer reciting to the Shepherds (1819); St. Louis visiting the Plague-Stricken Soldiers, Fight of the Thirty (1822); Clemency of Louis XII. (1824), Versailles Museum; Shipwreck of a Fisherman and his Child (1827); Bivouac of the National Guard in Courtyard of Louvre (1831); Entrance to Harbor of Boulogne; Needles at Isle of Wight; Shakespeare Cliff; View of Loch Lomond.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 614; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 105; Larousse.

GASTINEAU, HENRY, born in 1797, died at Camberwell, Surrey, in 1876. Landscape painter in water-colours, pupil of the Royal Academy; commenced as an engraver, then took up oil-painting, and in 1818 became an associate and in 1824 a member of the Water-Colour Society; was intimately connected with Turner, David Cox, and Copley Fielding. Works: Penrhyn Castle, Netley Abbey, South Kensington Museum, London; Klamme Pass in Styria (1855); Glenarm—Antrim, Hospice and Pass of St. Gothard (1862); Pass of Killiecrankie (1867).

GASTON DE FOIX (?), Girolamo Savoldo, Louvre; canvas, H. 3 ft. × 4 ft.; signed. A knight in armour, half recumbent, in a gloomy chamber, his form reflected in mirrors. Long called a portrait of Gaston de Foix, by Giorgione; but probably a picture painted to show that painting is preferable to sculpture, because a given form can be reproduced on canvas by the judicious use of reflecting surfaces. Replica, formerly belonging to Charles I., at Hampton Court.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 419; Law, Hist. Cat. Hampton Court, 43.

GATTA, Don BARTOLOMMEO DELLA, born about 1408, died in Arezzo in 1491. Florentine school. Learned miniature painting in the Camaldolensian Convent of the Angeli, Florence, where he was a friar; became abbot of the Convent of S. Clemente, Arezzo, and decorated its walls with frescos, now destroyed. Some panels by him in the public gallery, Arezzo, one dated 1479, show careful and patient execution, but little sense of colour. In 1479-86 he was in Rome, where he worked in the Sistine, according