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George's, Antwerp; Episodes in History of Flanders (1861-69), Town Hall, Ypern; Christ and Two Angels (1870), Ince Blundell Hall, near Liverpool; Scenes from Local History (1873-75), Town Hall, Courtray; Fall of Man, Redemption, Baptism of Christ (1879), St. Quentin's, Hasselt; Sacrifice of Melchisedek, Last Supper, Entry with the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem, Procession of Corpus Christi (1881), St. Joseph's, Louvain.—Müller, 223; Riegel, Wandmalerei in Belgien, 19, 39, 42, 46-62, 86, 105, 247; Gaz. des B. Arts (1864), xvii. 465; (1868), xxv. 74; Förster, Denkmale, VIII. iii. 23; Illustr. Zeitg. (1872), i. 227.


GUGEL, KARL, born at Bergzabern, Rhenish Palatinate, April 12, 1820, died in Munich, June 26, 1885. Genre and portrait painter; painted at first in imitation of Murillo's style, which he abandoned for the representation of ideal female heads and figures in the manner of Giorgione. Has lived in Munich since 1852. Works: Lute-Player; Gypsy Girl; After the Bath; Girl Writing; Girl Reading; Gardener-Maid; Mother and Child; Reading Aloud; Witches' Ride to the Blocksberg; Lady of 17th Century, New Pinakothek, Munich.—Müller, 224; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 669.


GUIAUD, JACQUES, born at Chambéry (Savoy), May 15, 1811, died in 1876. Landscape and architecture painter, pupil of Watelet and of Cogniet. Medals: 3d class, 1843; 2d class, 1846. Works: Landscapes and City views in Italy, Tyrol, and Germany (1831-42); do. in Italy, Spain, and France (1847-76); Castles Gieberg and St. Ulrich at Ribeauville—Haut-Rhin, View of Procida (1843); Castle of Henry IV. at Pau, View of Steinach-Tyrol (1846); View of Antwerp Cathedral, Amiens Museum; Château de Madrid and Bois de Boulogne, Château and Park at Monceaux (1866), Galerie des Cerfs, Fontainebleau.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 719.


GUIBAL, NICOLAS, born at Luneville, Nov. 29, 1725, died in Stuttgart, Nov. 3, 1784. French school; history painter, son of the sculptor Barthélemi G., pupil of Claude Charles in Nancy, and of Natoire in Paris. Called in 1749 to Stuttgart by Duke Charles Eugene of Würtemberg, who sent him in 1752 to Rome, where he studied under Mengs. On his return in 1755 he was appointed first painter to the Duke, as well as professor and director of the gallery of paintings. Works: Ceiling of Bath House, Schwetzingen; Ceilings in Library, ib.; also at Hohenheim, Monrepos, and chapel at Ludwigsburg; Paintings in churches at Zwiefalten, Gmünd, and Solothurn.—Allgem. deutsche Biogr., x. 102; Dussieux, Les artistes français à l'étranger, 239; Haakh, Beiträge, 5; Zeitschr. f.b. K., xii. 151.


GUIDI, TOMMASO DI GIOVANNI. See Masaccio.



GUIDO (Guido Reni), born in Bologna, Nov. 4, 1575, died there, Aug. 18, 1642. Bolognese school. Son of Daniele Reni, a musician; pupil of Denis Calvart, afterward of the Carracci. For a time he was the favourite pupil of Lodovico, but he soon aroused so much jealousy that he was dismissed from the academy. After painting several years in Bologna, where his pictures excited much admiration, he went to Rome about 1608, with his fellow-pupil Francesco Albani, and notwithstanding the opposition of Caravaggio and of Annibale Carracci, then at work in the Palazzo Farnese, he soon won an honourable position. Caravaggio was then the fashion in Rome, and when Cardinal Borghese gave Guido an order for the Cru-