About and of Jules David. His pictures have a certain elegance of style and are agreeable in colour. Medals in 1864, 1865, and 1866; L. of Honour, 1867. Works: Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus, Nymph and Satyr (1861), Besançon Museum; Love quenching his Thirst (1863); Agrippina leaving the Camp (1864), Lille Museum; Abduction of Amymone (1865), Luxembourg Museum; Christ blessing Little Children (1867); Carmela's Last Pin (1868); Pentecost (1870); Cupid and Venus (1873); Calvary, The Cemetery (1875); Sonnino (1876); Night (1877); Christ among the Doctors, Christ blessing the Children, Descent of the Holy Ghost, St. Étienne du Mont, Paris; Portraits of Generals Marulaz and Morand, Hôtel de Ville, Besançon; Portrait of Chancellor d'Aguesseau, Palais de Justice, Paris; La Giottina (1879); Centaur and Nymph (1880); Innocence (1884).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 643; Larousse.
GIAMBONO, MICHELE, Venetian
school, middle of 15th century. A humble
follower in the path of Jacobello del Fiore,
but showing an improvement in technical
handling, due to the study of Gentile da
Fabriano and of Pisanello. Giambono
treated mosaic with more skill than painting.—C.
& C., N. Italy, i. 13; Lermolieff, 395.
GIANNICOLA BITTI. See Manni.
GIANNUZZI, GIULIO PIPPI DE'. See
Giulio Romano.
GIBERT, JEAN BAPTISTE ADOLPHE,
born at Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, January
24, 1803. Landscape painter, pupil in Paris
of Guillon-Lethière and of the École des
Beaux Arts; obtained in 1829 the grand
prix de Rome, in which city he settled.
Works: Forest of Nettuno; Battle of Eckmühl,
Versailles Museum; Calydonian Boar-Hunt;
Banks of the Teverone (1850); Acropolis
of Athens (1853); View in Pontine
Swamps (1855), Avignon Museum; View of
Ardea (1859); View of Abu Mandur in Egypt
(1863); View from Terrace of French Academy
in Rome (1872); Views in Sicily.
GIBRALTAR, SIEGE OF, John Singleton
Copley, Guildhall, London; canvas.
Scene: the repulse of the Spanish floating
batteries; the firing has partly ceased, and
the English officers are endeavouring to rescue
the sufferers from the burning vessels.
Painted in 1789-90 for Court of Common
Council of City of London. Study (4 ft. 4
in. × 6 ft. 2 in.) in National Gallery; engraved
by William Sharp.—Cat. Nat. Gal.
GIDE, THÉOPHILE, born in Paris,
March 15, 1822. History and genre painter,
pupil of Delaroche and Cogniet. Usually
paints scenes from life in Italian monasteries.
Medals: 3d class, 1861; Medal,
1865, 1866; L. of Honour, 1866. Works:
Condemnation of Cinq Mars (1855); Raising
of Youth at Nain (1857); Sully leaving the
Court of Louis XIII. (1863), Angers Museum;
Farewell to the Convent (1864), Amiens
Museum; Neapolitan Singer (1864);
Studious Monks (1865), Alençon Museum;
Pius IX. visiting a Convent; Practising a
Musical Mass (1866), Roubaix Museum;
School; Letter of Recommendation, Coligny
visited by Charles IX., Two Bad Acquaintances,
Cooper's Shop (1874); Indiscreet
Confidence, Another Glass! (1875);
Charles IX. forced to sign the Order for the
Massacre of the Huguenots (1876); Interior
of St. Mark's in Venice, Louis XI. surprised
by his Fool when at Prayer (1877); Young
Invalid (1878); Othello narrating his Adventures,
Father Fiorista (1879); Marie Antoinette
in the Conciergerie (1880); Cavalier
and Maid-Servant, Interior of a Monastery
in Nice (1881); Mazarin receiving a Messenger
(1882); The Importunate Person,
Visitors to the Palace of Fontainebleau
(1883); Take Care! Checkmate (1884); No
Jesting with edged Tools (1885).—Bellier
de la Chavignerie, i. 645.
GIERYMSKI, MAX, born at Warsaw,
Oct. 15, 1846, died at Reichenhall, Bavaria,
Sept. 16, 1874. Landscape and genre painter,
pupil of Munich Academy under Alexander
Wagner, then of Franz Adam, and
later led to landscape by Eduard Schleich.
