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 GILLISEN, KARL, born at Aachen, April 23, 1842. Military genre painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under Nicaise de Keyser, and in Düsseldorf of Hünten; joined in 1864 the Belgian Corps for Mexico as a volunteer, returned in 1866, and took part in the campaign of 1870 in France. Works: Guerillas are Coming! (1870); Morning after Battle, Volunteer Nurses on Battlefield; Temporary Dressing; Outposts near Paris; Indians before Invasion of Mexican Estate; Prairie Hunters in Flight.—Müller, 207.

GILLOT, CLAUDE, born at Langres, Haute-Marne, in 1673, died in Paris, May 4, 1722. French school; genre painter and engraver, first instructed by his father, then pupil of J. B. Corneille in Paris. He was one of the first artists in France to paint conversation pieces, tragic and comic actors, satyrs and fauns, charlatans, masquerades and balls. These paintings, cleverly conceived, and executed with spirit and taste, were for a long time the object of universal admiration, and led to his admission into the Academy in 1715. Works: Feast of Pan; do. of Bacchus, Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; do. of Diana disturbed by Satyrs; the Milkmaid.—Ch. Blanc, École française.

GILMAN, Mrs. C. R, born at Steubenville, O.; contemporary. Flower painter, pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, later of Carolus Duran. Studied abroad from 1878 to 1882. Studio in Philadelphia. Work, Roses, T. B. Clarke, New York.

GILPIN, SAWREY, born at Carlisle, England, Nov. 11, 1733, died at Brompton, March 8, 1807. Pupil of Samuel Scott, marine painter, London, but devoted himself to painting of animals, especially horses. Exhibited in 1763-64 at the Society of Artists, of which he was for a time president, portraits of horses; in 1770, Darius obtaining the Persian Empire by the Neighing of his Horse; and in 1771, Gulliver taking leave of the Houyhnhnms. In 1795 he became an A.R.A., and in 1797 R.A. His brother, Rev. William Gilpin (1724-1804), was an amateur landscape painter and a writer on art; and his son, William Sawrey Gilpin, was a water-colour painter, and first president (1804) of the Water Colour Society.—Redgrave; F. de Conches, 344; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Sandby, i. 310.

GIMIGNANI (Gemignani, Giminiani, Geminiani), GIACINTO, born at Pistoja in 1611, died in 1681. History painter, Roman school; pupil at Rome of Nicolas Poussin, whom he followed in composition and design, and later in the school of Pietro da Cortona, whose style of colouring he adopted. He painted in fresco in the Baptistery of S. Giovanni in Laterano, Rome, subjects from the life of Constantine. Works: Leander, Ariadne, Uffizi, Florence; Rebekah at the Well, Palazzo Pitti, ib.; two pictures from life of St. John, S. Giovanni, Pistoja; St. Roch, Duomo, ib. His son, Lodovico (1644-97), excelled in fresco; also painted altarpieces.

GINAIN, EUGÈNE LOUIS, born in Paris, July 28, 1818. Military and horse painter, pupil of Charlet and of Abel de Pujol. In 1840 he followed the campaign in Algeria, and in 1846 one in Spain. Medals: 3d class, 1857, 1861; 2d class, 1863; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Duc d'Orleans during the Campaign of Teniah (1841); Review in Champ de Mars (1849), Versailles Museum; Colonel Daumas receiving the