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.
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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