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 Lived with the knights of St. John at Haarlem, and hence was called Geertgen tot Sint Jans, although not of their order and probably a native of Leyden. He painted for the church of the order an altarpiece, two wings of which are preserved in the Vienna Museum, one a Pietà, the other representing the Legend of the bones of St. John the Baptist. Other works attributed to him are: Scene from the Legend of St. Lucy, in the Lippmann Collection at Vienna; View of Haarlem Cathedral, in that edifice; Crucifixion, in the Galleria Estense at Modena. Dr. Bode is inclined to assign to this master also an Adoration of the Magi in the Prague Gallery, the Expiatory Offering in the Amsterdam Museum, and Christ in the Tomb surrounded by the Instruments of the Passion in the Archiepiscopal Museum at Utrecht.—Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 261; Bode, Studien, 6; C. & C., Flemish Painters, 248; Dohme, li.; Kramm, ii. 546; Kugler (Crowe), i. 91; Riegel, Beiträge, i. 59.

GEERTZ, JULIUS, born in Hamburg, April 21, 1837. Genre painter, pupil in Hamburg of the brothers Gensler, then in 1856-60 of the Carlsruhe Art School under Des Coudres, and, after a short stay in Munich, of Rudolph Jordan in Düsseldorf; studied in 1864 in Paris, visited Brittany and Holland, and settled in Düsseldorf. Works: Sour and Sweet, Maternal Joy, The Student (1867); Disturbing Return Home, Consequences of School-Arrest, Shut In, Watch on the Rhine (1870); Prisoners of War, At the Menagerie, Criminal after Sentence (1873); Organ Grinder, Last Ornament (1874); Catching Flies, Girl with Bird's Nest, Capitulation (1876); Beggar's Penny (1877).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1874), i. 79; (1875), i. 187; Kunst-Chronik, ix. 342; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 149.

GEFFROY, EDMOND AIMÉ FLORENTIN, born at Maignelay (Oise), July 29, 1804. Genre painter, pupil of Amaury-Duval. Educated a lawyer, but married an actress and went on the stage. Though he had considerable success as a painter, he is best known as an actor. Medals: 3d class, 1840; 2d class, 1841 and 1857. Works: Virgin and Child; Pierre Corneille; The Actor Mirécourt (1840); The Members of the Comédie Française (1841), Comédie Française; Ariadne and Theseus (1844); Molière and his Characters (1857); Sganarelle in the School for Husbands (1863); Members of the Comédie Française (1864); Hylas (1868).—Larousse.

GEGENBAUR, JOSEF ANTON VON, born at Wangen, Würtemberg, March 6, 1800, died in Rome, Jan. 31, 1876. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Robert von Langer. Studied in Rome, especially after Raphael, in 1823-26, and after his return was appointed court-painter to the King of Würtemberg, for whom (1836-54) he decorated the royal palace in Stuttgart with frescos from Würtemberg history. Works: St. Sebastian (1820); Two Shepherds, First Parents after Loss of Paradise, Moses striking the Rock (1823-26), Royal Palace, Stuttgart; Hercules and Omphale, Stuttgart Gallery; Cupid and Psyche, Assumption, Madonna, Aphrodite, Crucifixion (1829-35); Sleeping Venus and two Satyrs, Leda, several Aphrodites and Madonnas, Portraits (1836-56); Apollo and Muses, Bacchus and Ariadne, Venus and Cupid, Ceres and Jason, Æolus and Æola, Pluto and Proserpine, Neptune and Thetis, Genii and Amorettes (all 1860), Royal Palace, Stuttgart. Frescos: Hercules and Omphale (1826), Thorwaldsen Museum, Copenhagen; Jupiter giving Immortality to Psyche, Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, Four scenes from Life of Psyche, Four Seasons, Aurora (all in 1826-29), Villa Rosenstein; Sixteen scenes from History of Würtemberg (1836-54), Royal Palace, Stuttgart.—Allgem. d. Biogr., viii. 495; Brockhaus, vii. 652; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 349; Reber-Pecht, ii. 229.