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 together with Sementi, in his great works in Ravenna, Naples, and Mantua. Some of his earlier pictures nearly approach the excellence of his master, but his facility of execution led him to abuse his talents, and his later works show the coldness of a mannerist. He had a well-attended school at Bologna. Many of his pictures are in Bologna, e.g., St. Francis receiving the Stigmata, 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 Carità; St. Francis at the Nunziata. Other works: St. Francis, Estense Gallery, Modena; Cupid, Madrid Museum; Madonna with Saints, Brera, Milan; Morpheus appearing to Halcyon, Vienna Museum; Magdalen, Dresden Museum; Diana and Actæon, Stuttgart Gallery; Infant Christ, Christ crowned with Thorns, Stockholm Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Burckhardt, 764; Gualandi, Guida, 117, 135; Malvasia, ii. 243; Lanzi, iii. 97.

GESSNER, SALOMON, born in Zürich, April 1, 1730, died there, March 2, 1788. German school. Well-known Swiss poet. Landscape painter, self-taught; began to paint in Berlin, where he was sent in 1749 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 1765. Works: Well in the Woods, Dreamer, Arcadian Well, Fisherman, Zürich Gallery. His son, Konrad, painted with some reputation in England and Scotland. Works: Cavalry Skirmish (2), View in Park (2), Driving up Hill, Horses Grazing, Zürich Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 122; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 566.

GETTYSBURG, BATTLE OF, Peter F. Rothermel, Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia; canvas, H. 19 ft. × 33 ft. Painted in 1871 for State of Pennsylvania; $25,000.—Art Journal (1872), 20.

GEYER, ALEXIUS, born in Berlin in 1826, died there, July 16, 1883. Landscape painter, pupil of Berlin, Munich, and Dresden Academies; studied then several years in Rome and Paris, and travelled for ten years through Italy, Greece, the East, and the greater part of Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland. Works: Ten pictures for King Frederick William IV.; Series for Archæological Museum in Rome; Cyclorama of the Bosphorus; do. of the Nile; Termini; Civita Lavigna; View in Volsker Mountains; Palermo; Arabian Landscape.—Brockhaus, viii. 7; Müller, 203.

GEYER, JOHANN, born at Augsburg, Jan. 1, 1807, died there, Nov. 26, 1875. Genre painter, pupil of Augsburg art-school and of Munich Academy under Clemens Zimmermann; visited France and Belgium, and was from 1833 until 1865 professor at the Polytechnic School in Augsburg. Treated rococo genre scenes with exquisite humour, and represented stuffs, especially satin, with great skill. Works: Consilium Medicum, End of Masked Ball, Physician feeling Lady's Pulse, New Pinakothek, Munich; Concert Rehearsal; Christening Feast, Menagerie (1835), Leipsic Museum; Frightened Watchman; Quarrelling Ministrants; Capuchin's Sermon in Wallenstein's Camp; Council of Augsburg receiving Louis the Bavarian (1844), Town Hall, Augsburg; Painter and Doorkeeper (1846); Fornarina in Raphael's Studio; Reception of a Prince in Small Town, Hanover Gallery; Charles V. in Titian's Studio (1850); Betrothal (1852); Anteroom of a Prince (1856); Opening of Will (1857), Seizure of a Patrician (1863), Bremen Gallery; Götz von Berlichingen (1859), Erfurt Gallery; Duke of Alva at Castle Rudolstadt, Prague Gallery.—Brockhaus, viii. 7; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 193.

GEYLING, RUDOLF, born in Vienna in 1840. Genre painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Ruben and Wurzinger; spent some time in Italy, and settled in Vienna. Works: Homeward Journey with Siegfried's Body (1868); Playing Amorettes; Florentine Girl; Interior of Peasant's Yard; Interior of Convent; Sacrilegists, Vienna