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many distinguished sitters were the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort; Dukes of Cambridge, Roxborough, Rutland, and Buckingham; Duchess of Sutherland; Earls of Derby, Fife, and Elgin; Lords Palmerston, Herbert, and Stanley; Sir Colin Campbell, General J. Sir Hope Grant (his brother), Disraeli, Landseer, Macaulay, and Lockhart.—Ottley; Art Journal (1878), 232.


GRAN VASCO. See Fernandez Vasco.


GRANVELLA, NICHOLAS, portrait, Titian, Besançon Museum; canvas, figure to hips, large as life. The Chancellor, in state dress, with white beard falling to his chest; the chain of the Golden Fleece round his neck. Painted in Augsburg in 1548.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 183.

Passage of the Granicus, Charles Lebrun, Louvre, Paris.


GRASHOF, OTTO, born at Prenzlau, Brandenburg, in 1812, died in Cologne, April 23, 1876. German school; history, genre, portrait, and animal painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow; spent several years in Russia, visited Mexico, and the La Plata States in South America, and settled in 1845 at Cologne. He became blind in 1861. Works: Recha's Salvation (1834); The Cid (1835); Guardian Angel (1845); Christ and Samaritan Woman (1846); Presenting the Sword, Wolves by Dead Horse (1847); Battle of Shumla, Vanguard of Lesgians (1848); Russian Bear Hunt; St. Wassily; Russian Pilgrims; Odalisque; Horses in Flight; Russian Invalid; Halt of Georgians; Till Eulenspiegel; Fight between Circassian and Russian; St. William; Scene from Nathan the Wise; Portrait of Franz Liszt. Many dog and horse portraits.—Kunst-Chronik, xi. 514.


GRASS, KARL GOTTHARD, born at Serben, Livonia, Oct. 8 (19), 1767, died in Rome, Aug. 4, 1814. Landscape painter, pupil in Zürich of Ludwig Hess, visited Paris in 1801 and with Rehfues went to Italy in 1803, where he spent considerable time in Sicily. Works: Spring Morning in Valley San Angelo di Brolo; Concordia Temple near Girgenti; Falls of Carcacci under Mt. Etna; Idyl after Theocritus; Two views of Mt. Etna (1811).—Brockhaus, viii. 303; Tielemann, Karl Grass (Riga, 1818).


GRASSHOPPER AND ANT (Cigale et la Fourmi), Jehan Georges Vibert, Comte de Camondo, Paris. Illustration of La Fontaine, Fables, i. 1. Salon, 1875.


GRASSI, JOSEF, born in Vienna, April 22, 1757, died in Dresden, Jan. 7, 1838. German school; portrait and history painter, pupil of Vienna Academy; was in Warsaw during the revolution of 1793, and