underwent great perils, but escaped by the aid of Kosciuszko. Went by invitation of the Duke of Courland to Sagan, and thence to Dresden, where in 1799 he became professor at the Academy. In 1816-21 was in Rome as director of the Saxon art pensionaries. Distinguished and decorated by the King of Saxony and the Duke of Gotha; also member of several Academies. Works: St. John Baptist, St. Peter, Dresden Gallery; The Arcadians, Callisto asleep, St. Ann instructing the Virgin, Female Figure walking, Fairy on Chariot, Portrait of Duke Frederic IV. of Saxe-Gotha, do. of Minister von Lindenau (1814), and copies after Albani, Correggio, and Raphael, Gotha Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 592; Wurzbach, v. 314.
GRATELLA. See Filippi, Sebastiano.
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GRAY, HENRY PETERS, born in New
York, June 23, 1819,
died there, Nov. 12,
1877. Portrait and
genre painter, pupil
of Huntington. Visited
Europe in 1840,
studied in Rome and
Venice; went abroad
again in 1846, and to
Florence in 1871, remaining
four years.
Elected N.A. in 1842, President of National
Academy from 1869 to 1871. Works: Pride
of the Village, R. M. Olyphant; Wages of
War, Metropolitan Museum, New York;
Portrait of William Cullen Bryant, Historical
Society, ib.; Cupid begging his Arrow,
Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia; Judgment
of Paris, Corcoran Gallery, Washington;
Twilight Musings; Blessed are the
Pure in Heart; Truth; Ophelia; Normandy
Girl; Jessica or the Pride of the Rialto;
Model from Cadore; Immortality of the
Soul, Edwin Hoyt; Birth of our Flag (1875);
Flower of Fiesole, Just Fifteen (1875), M.
O. Roberts, New York; Apple of Discord
(1876).—Tuckerman, 442.
GRAYSON, CLIFFORD PREVOST, born
in Philadelphia in 1857. Genre painter,
pupil of Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris
of Gérôme. Works: Breton Idyl (1881);
Going to Market (1882); Un fichu temps
(1883); Ohe, le canot! (1884); Fisher-chilren
at Concarneau (1885).—Art Journal
(1884), 222.
GRAZIANI, ERCOLE, born at Bologna
in 1688, died in 1765. Bolognese school.
History painter, pupil of Donato Creti
(1671-1749, a coronation of Charles V., by
whom is in the Bologna Gallery), whom he
surpassed in both design and colouring;
painted a great number of pictures for public
buildings at Bologna and Piacenza, and
especially for the churches of Bologna.
Works: St. Peter consecrating St. Apollinaris
amidst an Assembly of Early Christians,
Bologna; Marriage of St. Catherine, St.
Ann teaching the Virgin to read, S. Bartolommeo
di Reno, ib.; Ascension, Chiesa
della Purità, ib.; Annunciation, Madonna
delle Rondini, ib.; replica of first-named, and
Baptism of Christ, Sant' Apollinare, Rome.
GREATOREX, ELIZA, born at Manor-Hamilton,
Ireland, Dec. 25, 1820. Landscape
painter; settled in New York in 1839.
Pupil of Émile Lambinet in Paris, in 1861;
earlier helped by the criticisms of Cafferty,
W. W. Wotherspoon, and James M. Hart.
Has visited Europe repeatedly. Elected an
A.N.A. in 1868. Studio in New York.
Works: Road Scene in Connecticut; Old
House in Bloomingdale; Joy Bridge—Peltigor,
Ireland; Amsterdam; Fort Hamilton—Long
Island; Bay Ridge; Normandy
Cottage (1881); Fontainebleau Forest, Cressonières-Veules
en Caux (1882); Laurel Run—Virginia;
Louis Philippe House in 1868—Bloomingdale,
M. de Mendonça; Somerendyke
Lake—Bloomingdale (1884). Kate
and Eleanor, daughters of Mrs. Greatorex,
also paint and exhibit at the National Academy;
they have studied abroad and under
their mother, whose studio they share.
Miss Kate Greatorex has exhibited: Last
Bit of Autumn (1875); Goethe's Fountain—Frankfort
(1876); Thistles (1877); Alge-
