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 GESSXEIt together with Sementi, in his great works in Ravenna, Naples, and Mantua. Some of his earlier pictures nearly approach the ex- cellence of his master, but his facility of execution led him to abuse his talents, and his later works show the coldness of a man- nerist. He had a well-attended school at Bologna. Many of his pictures are in Bo- logna, c.</., St. Francis receiving the Stig- mata, Madonna, Christ praying to the East. Holy Family and Angels, St. Bonaventura, Madonna with Angels, in the Pinacoteca ; Martyrdom of St. Catharine, in S. Caterina ; Madonna and Saints, in S. M. della Carit.i ; St. Francis at the Xunziata. Other works : St. Francis, Estonse Gallery, Modena ; Cu- pid, Madrid Museum ; Madonna with Saints, Brera, Milan ; Morpheus appearing to Hal- cyon, Vienna Museum ; Magdalen, Dresden Museum ; Diana and Acheon, Stuttgart Gal- lery ; Infant Christ, Christ crowned with Thorns, Stockholm Museum. Ch. Blanc. Ecole bolonaise ; Burekhardt, 7f!4 ; Gual- itiuli, Guida, 117, 1155 ; Malvasia, ii. 24:5 ; Lan/i, iii. !I7. GESSXER, SALOMON, horn in Ziirich, April 1, 17:50, died there, March "2, 17SS. German school. Well-known Swiss poet. Landscape painter, self-taught ; began to paint in Berlin, where he was sent in 1741) to learn the book trade. Later in Hamburg, and on his return home, he devoted himself alternately to poetry and painting, and to the latter art exclusively after 17(!f>. Works: Well in the Woods, Dreamer, Arcadian Well, Fisherman, /cinch Gallery. His son, Kon- rad, painted with some reputation in Eng- land and Scotland. Works : Cavalry Skir- mish (2), View in Park (2), Driving up Hill, Horses Grazing, Ziirich Gallery. Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 122 ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 5(>. GETTYSBURG, BATTLE OF, Peter F. Hnthi-rmi'1, Memorial Hall, Fail-mount Park, Philadelphia; canvas, H. 1!) ft. x 15:5 ft. Painted in 1871 for State of Pennsylvania ; $25,000. Art Journal (1872), 20. GEYER, ALEXIUS, born in Berlin in 1826, died there, July 10, 1883. Landscape , painter, pupil of Berlin, Munich, and Dres- den Academies ; studied then several years in Rome and Paris, and travelled for ten years through Italy, Greece, the East, ami the greater part of Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland. Works : Ten pict- ures for King Frederick William IV. ; Series for Archaeological Museum in Rome; Cyclo- rama of the Bosphorus ; do. of the Nile ; Termini ; Civita Lavigna ; View in Volsker Mountains ; Palermo ; Arabian Landscape. - Brockhaus, viii. 7 ; Milller, 20:5. <;EYKK. .JOHAXX, bom at Augsburg, Jan. 1, 1807, died there, Nov. 2(i, 1875. ( ienre painter, pupil of Augsburg art-school and of Munich Academy under Clemens Zimmerman!) ; visited France ami Belgium, and was from ISIi.'i until 1M!."> professor at the Polytechnic School in Augsburg. Treated rococo genre scenes with exquisite humour, and represented stuH's, especially satin, with great skill. Works: Cousiliuni Mcdicum, End of Masked Ball, Physician feeling Lady's Pulse, New Pinakothek, Munich; Concert Rehearsal ; Christening Feast, Menagerie (IS!!.")), Leipsic Museum ; Frightened Watch- man ; Quarrelling Ministrants ; Capuchin's Sermon in Wallenstein's Camp; Council of Augsburg receiving Louis the Bavarian (1844), Town Hall, Augsburg; Painter and Doorkeeper (1840) ; Fornarina in Raphael's Studio ; Reception of a Prince in Small Town, Hanover Gallery; Charles V. in Ti- tian's Studio (1850); Betrothal (18.V2) : Anteroom of a Prince (185(!) ; Opening of Will (1857), Sei/.ure of a Patrician (1S<;:1), Bremen Gallery; Got/ von Berlichingeil (185!t), Erfurt Gallery ; Duke of Alva at, Castle Rudolstadt, Prague Gallery. Brock- haus, viii. 7 ; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 1!(I5. GKYLING, RUDOLF, born in Vienna in 1840. (ienre painter, pupil of Vienna Acad- emy under Ruben and Wurxinger ; spent some time in Italy, and settled in Vienna. Works : Homeward Journey with Siegfried's Body (1808); Playing Amorettes ; Floren- tine Girl; Interior of Peasant's Yard ; In- terior of Convent ; Sacrilcgists, Vienna 131