GILLISEN, KARL, born at Aachen, April 23, 1842. Military genre painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under Nicaise de Keyser, and in Düsseldorf of Hünten; joined in 1864 the Belgian Corps for Mexico as a volunteer, returned in 1866, and took part in the campaign of 1870 in France. Works: Guerillas are Coming! (1870); Morning after Battle, Volunteer Nurses on Battlefield; Temporary Dressing; Outposts near Paris; Indians before Invasion of Mexican Estate; Prairie Hunters in Flight.—Müller, 207.
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GILLOT, CLAUDE, born at Langres,
Haute-Marne, in
1673, died in Paris,
May 4, 1722. French
school; genre painter
and engraver,
first instructed by
his father, then pupil
of J. B. Corneille
in Paris. He was
one of the first artists
in France to
paint conversation pieces, tragic and comic
actors, satyrs and fauns, charlatans, masquerades
and balls. These paintings, cleverly
conceived, and executed with spirit and
taste, were for a long time the object of
universal admiration, and led to his admission
into the
Academy in
1715. Works:
Feast of Pan;
do. of Bacchus,
Raczynski
Gallery,
Berlin; do. of Diana disturbed by Satyrs;
the Milkmaid.—Ch. Blanc, École française.
GILMAN, Mrs. C. R, born at Steubenville,
O.; contemporary. Flower painter,
pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, later of Carolus Duran. Studied abroad
from 1878 to 1882. Studio in Philadelphia.
Work, Roses, T. B. Clarke, New York.
GILPIN, SAWREY, born at Carlisle,
England, Nov. 11, 1733, died at Brompton,
March 8, 1807. Pupil of Samuel Scott,
marine painter, London, but devoted himself
to painting of animals, especially horses.
Exhibited in 1763-64 at the Society of Artists,
of which he was for a time president,
portraits of horses; in 1770, Darius obtaining
the Persian Empire by the Neighing of
his Horse; and in 1771, Gulliver taking
leave of the Houyhnhnms. In 1795 he
became an A.R.A., and in 1797 R.A. His
brother, Rev. William Gilpin (1724-1804),
was an amateur landscape painter and a
writer on art; and his son, William Sawrey
Gilpin, was a water-colour painter, and first
president (1804) of the Water Colour Society.—Redgrave;
F. de Conches, 344; Ch.
Blanc, École anglaise; Sandby, i. 310.
GIMIGNANI (Gemignani, Giminiani,
Geminiani), GIACINTO, born at Pistoja in
1611, died in 1681. History painter, Roman
school; pupil at Rome of Nicolas Poussin,
whom he followed in composition and
design, and later in the school of Pietro da
Cortona, whose style of colouring he adopted.
He painted in fresco in the Baptistery
of S. Giovanni in Laterano, Rome, subjects
from the life of Constantine. Works: Leander,
Ariadne, Uffizi, Florence; Rebekah
at the Well, Palazzo Pitti, ib.; two pictures
from life of St. John, S. Giovanni, Pistoja;
St. Roch, Duomo, ib. His son, Lodovico
(1644-97), excelled in fresco; also painted
altarpieces.
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GINAIN, EUGÈNE LOUIS, born in Paris, July 28, 1818. Military and horse painter, pupil of Charlet and of Abel de Pujol. In 1840 he followed the campaign in Algeria, and in 1846 one in Spain. Medals: 3d class, 1857, 1861; 2d class, 1863; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Duc d'Orleans during the Campaign of Teniah (1841); Review in Champ de Mars (1849), Versailles Museum; Colonel Daumas receiving the
