GRIMM, LUDWIG EMIL, born at Hanau, May 14, 1790, died at Cassel, April 4, 1863. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil in Munich of Karl Hess; took part in the campaign of 1814 against France, returned to Cassel, and in 1815 spent some time in Munich. Visited Italy in 1816, and then settled in Cassel, where he became professor at the Academy in 1833. Works: Madonna (1818); Holy Family; Baptism of the Moors; Death of St. Elizabeth; Hessian Peasant Girl in Sunday Attire; Young Peasant Girl going to Church; Peasant Woman at a Grave; Portraits of Artist, of Ludwig Hassenpflug, Baron von Dörnberg, Clemens Brentano.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 689; Andresen, v. 117.
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GRIMMER, HANS, German school, 16th
century. Portrait painter, pupil at Mentz
of Matthias Grünewald. Works: Altar wings,
Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Portraits (1570),
Vienna Museum;
do., Ratisbon
Gallery;
Male and Female
Portrait,
Germanic Museum, Nuremberg.—Kugler
(Crowe), i. 188; W. & W., ii. 440.
GRIMOU (Grimoux, or Grimoud),
ALEXIS (Jean?), born at Romont, Switzerland,
about 1680, died in Paris about 1740.
French school. Trained himself by copying
works of Van Dyck and Rembrandt;
painted mostly female half figures, represented
as singing or playing, or as pilgrims.
Received into the Academy in 1705, but
struck off the list in 1709 on account of his
habitual drunkenness and disorderly life.
Works: Portrait of Himself (1724), Man
Drinking (1724), Young Officer (2), Female
Pilgrim (1729), Louvre; Mme. Lebaïf, Versailles
Museum; Portrait of Little Girl,
Nîmes Museum; Young Woman, David
and Goliath, Besançon Museum; Female
Portraits (3), Avignon Museum; Capuchin,
Young Pilgrim, Female Musician, Bordeaux
Museum; Head of a Young Man, Grenoble
Museum; Portrait of an Architect, Nantes
Museum; do. of an Actor, Orléans Museum;
Artist's portrait, Perpignan Museum; Girl
as Page, Basle Museum; Female Portraits
(2, 1731), Carlsruhe Gallery; Portrait of
Young Man, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Boy
playing a Flute, Dresden Museum; Portrait
of a Woman, Dulwich Gallery; copy of
Murillo's Good Shepherd, Lord Ellesmere;
Woman holding a Mask, M. Furtado; Head
of a Young Woman, M. Adolphe Fould.—Bellier
de la Chavignerie, i. 699; Ch. Blanc,
École française; Lejeune, Guide, i. 422;
Mariette, Abecedario, 2.
GRISWOLD, C. C., born in Ohio in
1834. Landscape painter, formerly had a
studio in New York; has lived several years
in Rome. Elected an A.N.A. in 1866, and
N.A. in 1867. Works: Autumnal Scene,
December, Last of the Ice (1864); Winter
Morning (1865); August Day—Newport
(1866); Early Spring (1869); Purgatory
Point, Newport, Seaside Landscape (1870);
Lago de Nemi (1874); Ponte Nolle across
the Tiber (1878), E. B. Haskell; View on
the Hudson, J. J. Astor, New York.
GRITTI, ANDREA, Doge, portrait, Titian,
Palazzo Giustiniani, Padua; canvas, H.
3 ft. 11-1/2 in. × 3 ft. 3 in. Painted in 1524; in
Titian's house until his death; sold in 1581
by Pomponio Vecelli to Cristoforo Barberigo;
thence passed by inheritance to Count
Giustiniani. Many replicas by Titian; copies
by Pordenone in Czernin Collection, Vienna,
by Tintoretto in Hermitage, St. Petersburg,
and by Rubens, exhibited in Royal
Academy, London, 1870.—C. & C., Titian,
i. 299; Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 262; Vasari,
ed. Mil., vii. 438.
GROB, KONRAD, born at Andelfingen,
Switzerland, in 1828. Genre painter, pupil
of Munich Academy under Ramberg, after
he had studied (1842-45) the elements of
art in Winterthur, and spent many years in
Italy. Works: Captured Mouse (1870);
Italian Beggar Children; Painting a Peasant
Girl; Painter on Study Trip, Zürich Gallery;
Visit on the Ladder; Sunday Afternoon in
Switzerland; Father Pestalozzi (1879), Basle
