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 A visit to Posen in 1872, to Meran in 1873, and to Rome in the winter of 1873-4, failed to restore his health, broken by privations undergone in Poland during the insurrection, in which he took part in 1863, with the rank of officer. Honorary member of the Berlin Academy. Works: Return without the Master, Attack of Cossacks, Funeral in Polish Town (1868); Alarm-Shot, Reconnoitring, Spinning-Room in Poland, Duel on Horseback, The Train is Coming, Light-Horse Marching (1869); Return from the Chase, Spring Promenade (1870); Meeting before the Chase, On the Vistula, After the first Ball, Starting for the Chase, Hunting Scene (1871); Night Scene, Country Road in Poland, Ride through Beech-Grove, Polish Village Street, In front of Polish Inn (1872); Morning in Polish Camp, Moonlight Scene, Advance Guard Alarmed, Cossacks on the March (1873); Stag-Hunt in Eighteenth Century (1874), National Gallery, Berlin.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 150; Allgem. Zeitg., Aug. 27, 1872, Beilage, 240; Dioskuren (1874), 357; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 7; x. 440.

GIESSMANN, FRIEDRICH, born in Leipsic, Dec. 31, 1810, died in Munich, Sept. 27, 1847. History painter, pupil of Dresden and Munich Academies, in the latter under Julius Schnorr, from whose cartoons he painted five great compositions in the new Royal Palace. Works: Scenes from Life of Charlemagne, Rudolph von Hapsburg, and Frederick Barbarossa, and 4 other pictures, Royal Palace, Munich; Prodigal Son.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 166.

GIFFORD, FANNIE ELLIOT, born in New Bedford, Mass., in 1844. Landscape and bird painter; wife of Robert Swain Gifford; studied at the Cooper Institute schools, New York, and under Samuel Gerry of Boston. Studio in New York.

GIFFORD, ROBERT SWAIN, born on the Island of Naushon, Gosnold, Mass., Dec. 23, 1840. Landscape painter and etcher; studied in New Bedford under Albert van Beest, marine painter, in 1864, and settled in New York in 1866; made sketching tours in California and Oregon in 1869, and in Europe and North Africa in 1870-71, and again in 1874-75. Began to paint in water-colours in 1865, and soon became a prominent member of the Water Colour Society. Elected an A.N.A. in 1870, and N.A. in 1878. Works in oil: Scene at Manchester (1867); Mount Hood—Oregon (1870); Entrance to Moorish House—Tangier, View of the Golden Horn (1873); Halting for Water, Passenger Boats on Nile (1874); Booth in Algeria, Rossetti Garden—Cairo (1875); Freight Boat on Nile, Egyptian Caravan (1876); Border of the Desert (1877); Dartmouth Moors (1878); Salters Beach (1879); Coast of New England (1880); Hillside, Old Fields (1881); Non-*quitt Cliff (1882); Near Zaandam—Holland, Salt Marshes (1883); Point Road, Zuyder-Zee (1884); On the Paskamansett, Shores of Buzzard's Bay, Salt Mills at Dartmouth (1885). Water-colours: Deserted Whaler (1867); Autumn on the Sea-shore (1868); Return from Philæ—Egypt (1871); Low Tide, Old Fort (1874); Venetian Companion, Guérande (1876); Evening in the Sahara, Scene on the Campagna, Oasis of Filiarch—Algeria (1877); On the Lagoon—Venice (1878).—Am. Art Rev. (1880), 417.

GIFFORD, SANDFORD ROBINSON, born at Greenfield, N.Y., July 10, 1823, died in New York, Aug. 29, 1880. Landscape painter, graduate of Brown University in 1842; in 1844 went to New York, and became pupil of J. R. Smith and of the National Academy. Elected an A.N.A. in 1851, and N.A. in 1854. In 1855-57 studied in Paris and Rome, and sketched in different parts of Europe; in 1868-69 sketched in Italy, Greece, Syria, and Egypt, and in 1870 in the Rocky Mountains. Works: Kauters