the Samaritan Woman, Descent from the Cross (1839); Byron's Corsair, Crown of Thorns (1840); Spaniards Threshing, Returning from the Fields (1841); Spanish Gypsy Women Bathing, Massacre of Innocents (1845), Rouen Museum; Gypsies and Spanish Smugglers, Tomb of Les Énerves at Jumièges (1847); Perseus rescuing Andromeda (1849); Pietà (1850); Establishing the Magistracy (1855), bought by State; Virgin with SS. Joseph and Simon, Greek Woman Bathing (1863); Christ among the Doctors (1865), Préfecture de la Seine, Paris; Cornelia's Jewels, Art in the Time of Pericles (1869); Combat of Hooglide, 1794, do. of Aicha, 1805 (1836); Louis XII. in Battle of Agnadel, 1509, Taking of Château de Foix (1837); Godfrey de Bouillon holding the first Assizes in Jerusalem, 1110 (1839), Louis le Gros capturing the Oriflamme at St. Denis, Battle of Seminara, Battle of Tourcoing, Portraits of Philip III. and Marshal Catinat, Versailles Museum; Portraits of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and others.—Bellier, i. 834; Larousse, ix. 1006; Nou. biog. gen., xxvi. 850.
JONAH, Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel,
Rome; fresco on ceiling.
By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; oval, on ceiling of upper room. The whale, whose mouth is as large as a cavern, has lifted Jonah out on his tongue, so that it forms a kind of red cushion for him to kneel on in his submission to the Deity.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 348; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 198.
JONAS, RUDOLF, born at Goldapp,
East-Prussia, in 1822. Landscape painter,
pupil of Königsberg Academy under Behrendsen;
went in 1851 to Munich, whence
he visited the Bavarian Alps, Tyrol, Switzerland,
and North Italy; taught in Dantzic
from 1852 to 1854, when he moved to Munich.
In 1856 made a four months' journey
through Corsica, and settled in Berlin in
1860. Works: View of Ajaccio; High
Plain on Bay of Ajaccio; Burial Hill in
Corsica; View near the Haff; Oliva Monastery
near Dantzic; Deserted Saw Mill; Inn
Valley in Southern Bavaria; Monastery
near Elbing; Mountain-Brook; Strait of
Bonifacio.—Müller, 285.
JONES, GEORGE, born in London, Jan.
6, 1786, died there, Sept. 19, 1869. Battle
painter, son of John Jones, engraver; student
of Royal Academy in 1801, and an exhibitor
in 1803; was an officer of militia in
Peninsular War, and was in Paris in 1815.
Painted battle and subject pieces on return
of peace, and became A.R.A. in 1822 and
R.A. in 1824; librarian in 1834-40, and
keeper in 1840-50. Works: Battle of Borodino
(1829), Town-hall at Utrecht (1829,
lent to Corporation of Oldham), The Fiery
Furnace (1832), Lady Godiva (1833), Relief
of Lucknow, Cawnpore—Passage of the
Ganges (1869, last three lent to Corporation
of Coventry), National Gallery, London;
View in Rotterdam, Grosvenor House, ib.;
Nelson boarding the San Josef at St. Vincent,
Greenwich Hospital; Battle of Waterloo,
Chelsea Hospital; do., National Gallery,
Edinburgh; Orléans, Woburn Abbey; Relief
of Lucknow, Cawnpore, Glasgow Gallery;
others in South Kensington Museum;
portrait of Sir Charles Napier, National
Portrait Gallery.—Redgrave; Cat. Nat. Gal.;
Sandby, ii. 36.
JONES, HUGH BOLTON, born in Baltimore,
Md., Oct. 20, 1848. Landscape
painter, studied in Baltimore. In 1877 visited
Europe, and studied there four years,
sketching in Spain and Brittany. Elected
an A.N.A. in 1881 and N.A. in 1883. Studio
in New York. Works: Ferry Inn, Summer
on the Blue Ridge (1874); Twilight on Bean
Creek, J. W. McCoy, Baltimore; Tangier,
W. T. Walters, ib.; Return of the Cows—Brittany,
Heath in Bloom—Brittany (1878);
French Landscape (1880); The Kasba from
Moorish Cemetery—Tangier (1881); October,
Early Spring (1882); Near Annisquam—Massachusetts
Coast, Landscape—South
Orange (1883); Near Plymouth Meeting—Pa.,
On Herring Run—Baltimore (1884).
Frank C. Jones, brother of the preceding,
