in Cairo (1806), Versailles Museum; Andromache and Pyrrhus (1810), Louvre, Replica in Bordeaux Museum; Cephalus and Aurora (1810); Dido listening to Story of Æneas (1817), Louvre; Clytemnestra urged by Egisthus to murder Agamemnon (1817), Louvre; Murder of Priam, St. Louis rendering Justice, Angers Museum; Death of Marshal Lannes in Battle of Essling, Valenciennes Museum; Portrait of Henri de la Rochejacquelin (1817).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 714; Ch. Blanc, École française; Larousse; Lenormant, B. Arts et Voyages, i. 142; Meyer, Gesch., 125.
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GUESNET, LOUIS FÉLIX, born at Fitz-James (Oise), April 27, 1843. Genre painter, pupil of Lamothe. Medals: 2d class, 1872; 1st class, 1873. Works: Mazeppa (1872); Roland at Roncevalles (1873); Barbarians in a Roman Villa (1875); Hunting (1882).
GUET, CHARLEMAGNE OSCAR, born
in Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), Jan. 24, 1801,
died in Paris, Nov. 29, 1871. Genre painter,
pupil of Hersent and of Horace Vernet. He
gathered his subjects from many countries,
and exhibited regularly from 1819 to 1850.
Medals: 2d class, 1822 and 1831; 1st class,
1839; L. of Honour, 1846. Works: Cuirassiers
of the Guard (1822); Little Organ-Player;
Soldier's Return; Military Stable;
Oyster-Bed at Grandville; Fishermen of
Grandville and Cancale; A Barbarism;
Trout-Fishing; Pluck the Rose in the
Morning of Life; The Panniers, Marino
Faliero and Helena; Norman and Breton
Sailors; Sick Child; Phœbus and Mme.
Gondelaurier; Phœbus and Esmeralda with
Falourdel; Return from the Fields; Return
from Market; The Fountain; Mother's
Caresses; Preparing for the Ball; Magnolia;
Woman Bathing; Revery, Coming
from the Bath.—Bellier de la Chavignerie,
i. 717.
GUEVARA, JUAN NIÑO DE, born at
Madrid in 1632, died at Malaga in 1698.
History painter, pupil of Miguel Manrique
and of Alonso Cano. His works in Malaga,
Granada, and Cordova have been compared
to those of Van Dyck.
GUFFENS, GODFROID, born at Hasselt,
Limburg, July 23, 1823. History painter,
pupil of Antwerp Academy under Nicaise de
Keyser, then with his fellow-student Jan
Swerts visited Paris in 1847, the art centres
of Germany in 1850, and Italy in 1850-52.
After their return they worked conjointly until
1874, when Swerts became director of the
Prague Academy. In 1858 they were sent
by the government to Munich, to report on
the first great German Art exhibition, which
caused the exhibition in Brussels in 1859 of
cartoons by Cornelius, Kaulbach, Schwind,
etc., greatly influencing Belgian art. Honorary
member of Munich, Dresden (1859),
and Amsterdam (1861) Academies, of German
Art Union (1859); corresponding member
of Institut de France (1873); member
of Brussels (1876) and Antwerp (1880)
Academies. Gold medals, Brussels, 1848,
1851; Order of Leopold, 1855; Officer,
1869; Baden Order of Zähringer Lion,
1860; Order of Oaken Crown, 1861; Weimar
Order of White Falcon, 1865; Papal
Order of Gregory, 1871; Order of Francis
Joseph, 1875. Removed from Antwerp to
Brussels in 1871. Works: Galileo in Prison;
Coronation of Virgin; Count van Looz
granting Community of Hasselt the Privilege
of City; Scene from Destruction of
Pompeii; Prayer of the Three Sisters; Imprisoned
Blanca von Felsenstein in Prayer;
Christ allaying the Storm; Hymnus Mysticus;
Lucretia and her Women; Pausias
and Glycera; Rouget de Lisle singing the
Marseillaise for the First Time, Pennsylvania
Academy, Philadelphia; Julia and her Mother;
Return from Holy Sepulchre, Altarpiece
with Madonna and Saints; Portraits. Frescos:
Seven Sorrows of the Virgin (1855-70),
Notre Dame at St. Nicolas, near Antwerp;
Scenes from Life of Christ (1859-71), St.
