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 G ROGER Museum. Milller, 218; Kunst-Chronik, xi. ; Zeitschr., xii. (Mittheilungen, v. 10). GROGER, FRIEDRICH KARL, bom at Plocn, Holstciu, Oct. 14, 17GO, died in Ham- burg, Nov. 9, 1838. Portrait painter, self- taught. In 1789 lie went with Aldcnrath to Berlin, frequented the Academy for some time, then went to Hamburg, and in 1798 studied in Dresden. Painted for several years in Kiel and Copenhagen, and finally settled in Hamburg. Works : Portrait of the Artist, Dresden Gallery ; Portraits of ' Man and Wife (1829), Portrait of Pastor Klefeker, do. of Aldenrath, do. of himself, ] his adopted daughter, and Aldenrath (con- jointly with the latter), Kunsthalle, Ham burg ; others in Liibeek, Kiel, Copenhagen Galleries. Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 708 ; Weil- barh, 218. GKOXLAND, THEUDE, born at Altona, Aug. 31, 1817, died in Berlin, April 1(>, 1870. Landscape and still-life painter, pu- pil of Copenhagen Academy ; lived then for three years in Italy, as long in England, and twenty-five years in Paris. Settled in 18(i8 in Berlin, where he had many pupils. Mem- ber of Copenhagen Academy. Medals : ! Paris, 1st elass, 1848 ; 2d class, 1855. Work, Fruit-piece, National Gallery, Ber- lin. His son, Rene, born in Paris, Oct. 3, ' 1849, painted similar subjects. Weilbach, 213; Jordan, 108; Rosenberg, Berl. Mal- ersch., 852. GRONVOLD, MARCUS, born at Bergen, Norway, July 5, 1845. Portrait and genre ! painter, pupil of Copenhagen and of Munich Academies, and studied from 1870 to 1878 i under Wilhelm Diez, Otto Seitz, and Piloty ; won several medals, visited Italy in 1874, Berlin and Diisseldorf in 187G, and Paris in 1878 ; member of jury at Diisseldorf Ex- hibition in 1880. Works : The Burgomas- ter ; Consolation ; Uninvited Guests ; Poach- ers ; Sunday Morning ; Scene from Saga of Wieland the Smith, Cologne Museum ; Por- trait of Knut Baade. Illustr. Zeitg. (1881), i. 41 ; Miiller, 218 ; Leixner, D. mod. K, ii. 79. Italy. GROS, ANTOINE JEAN, Baron, born in Paris, March l(j, 1771, died there, June 27, 1835. History and portrait painter, son of Jean Antoine, miniature painter, and pupil of David ; competed unsuc- cessfully for the prix de Rome in 1792, supported himself by painting portraits, and in 1793 went to In 179(5 he was presented to Gen- eral Bonaparte at Milan, and obtained his favour by painting him on the bridge at Areole. The General had the picture en- graved by Longhi, gave the plate to Gros, appointed him review inspector, and put him on the commission charged to select works of art to bo sent to France. In 1799 he escaped from Genoa on an English ship, arrived half dead at Antibes, and in 1801 gained at Paris a competition prize for a sketch of Battle of Nazareth, an historical picture never executed. Up to 1812, he painted battles of the Empire and portraits, then was commissioned to paint the cupola of St. Genevieve, which he finished in 1824, when he was ennobled. In 1815 directed the school of David during that painter's exile ; iu 1810 named member of the Insti- tute, counsellor of Royal Museum, professor of Ecole des Beaux Arts ; 1819, Order of San Michel ; 1828, L. of Honour. His por- trait of Charles X. (1827), some ceilings at the Louvre, and a Hercules exhibited in 1835, were so severely criticised that Gros fell into a state of melancholy and drowned himself. Between 1S1G and 1835 he had formed more than four hundred pupils. Works : Girl Bathing (1791), Female Por- trait, Besancon Museum ; Female Portrait (1798), Marseilles Museum ; Battle of Naz- areth (1801, sketch), Nantes Museum ; Plague of Jaffa (1804), Battlefield of Eylau (1808), Francis I. and Charles V. visiting the Tombs in St. Denis (1812), Louvre, Paris ; 178