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 GUESNET in Cairo (180P>), Versailles Museum ; Andro- mach<- and Pyrrhus (1810), Louvre, Replica in Bordeaux Museum ; Cephalus and Au- rora (1810) ; Dido listening to Story of Awms (1817), Louvre ; Clytemnextra urged by Egisthus to murder Agamemnon (1817), Louvre ; Murder of Priam, St. Louis ren- dering Justice, Angers Museum ; Death of Marshal Lannes in Battle of Essling, Valen- ciennes Museum ; Portrait of Henri do la liochejacqueliii (1817). Bellicr de la Cha- vignerie, i. 71-t ; Ch. Blanc, Keole franyaiso ; Larousso ; Leuormant, B. Arts et Voyages, i. 142 ; Meyer, Gesch., 125. GUESNET, LOUIS FfcLIX, born at Fitz-James (Oise), April 27, 1843. Genre painter, pupil of Laiuothe. Medals : 2d class, 1872 ; 1st class, 1873. Works : Ma- zeppa (1872); Roland at lloncevalles (1873); Barbarians in a Roman Villa (1875) ; Hunt- ing (1882). GUET, CHARLEMAGNE OSCAR, born in Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), Jan. 24, 1801, died in Paris, Nov. 2!), 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 : Cui- rassiers 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 ; Phoebus and Mine. Gondelaurier ; Phcebus and Esmeralda with Falourdel ; Return from the Fields ; Return from Market ; The Fountain ; Mother's Caresses ; Preparing for the Ball ; Mag- nolia ; Woman Bathing ; Revery, Coming from the Bath. Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 717. GUEVARA, JUAN NIXO 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 atHasselt, Limburg, July 23, 1823. History painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy tinder 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 conjoin tly un- til 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. Hon- orary member of Munich, Dresden (1859), and Amsterdam (1861) Academies, of Ger- man Art Union (1859); corresponding mem- ber of Institut de France (1873); member of Brussels (1876) and Antwerp (1880) Academics. Gold medals, Brussels, 1848, 1851 ; Order of Leopold, 1855 ; Officer, 1869 ; Baden Order of Ziihringer Lion, 1860 ; Order of Oaken Crown, 1861 ; Wei- mar 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 Pris- on ; Coronation of Virgin ; Count van Looz granting Community of Hasselt the Privi- lege of City ; Scene from Destruction of Pompeii ; Prayer of the Three Sisters ; Im- prisoned Blanca von Felsenstein in Prayer ; Christ allaying the Storm ; Hymnus Mysti- cus ; Lucretia and her Women ; Pausias and Glycera ; Eouget de Lisle singing the Marseillaise for the First Time, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia ; Julia and her Moth- er ; Return from Holy Sepulchre, Altarpiece with Madonna and Saints ; Portraits. Fres- cos : Seven Sorrows of the Virgin (1855-70), Notre Dame at St. Nicolas, near Antwerp ; Scenes from Life of Christ (1859-71), St. 186