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 Song, Song of the Nubian Slave (1864); Rising of the Nile (1865); Bedouin Mother and Child (1872); Arab Improvisatore, Subsiding of the Nile (1873); Time of Roses, Egyptian Water-Carriers (1877); Palm Sunday, Daughter of Laban (1878); Water for the Camp (1879); Road to Mecca, Return from Mecca, Artist and Model, Rebecca (1881); Memphis (1882); Café at Cairo, Crossing the Desert (1883); Gordon's Last Messenger (1885). His son, Frederick Trevelyan Goodall (died April 11, 1871), was a painter of much promise.—Art Journal (1850), 213; (1855), 108; Sandby, ii. 331; Cat. Nat. Gal.

GOODWIN, ALBERT; contemporary. Water-colour landscape and genre painter. Exhibits at Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Venice, from S. Giorgio, Venetian Butterflies (1875); Sixth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, An Arabian Night (1879); Low Tide in the Harbour (1880); A Summer Sea, St. Michael's Mount—Cornwall (1881); Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, Fisherman and Genius (1882); Enchanted Lake, Scene from Tempest (1883); Passing, Unveiling of the Enchanted Palace (1884).

GOOL, JAN VAN, born at The Hague in 1690 or 1691, died there in 1765. Dutch school; landscape and animal painter, pupil of Mattheus Terwesten and of Simon van der Does. Imitated Paul Potter. He published "De nieuwe Schonburg der Nederlantsche Kunst-schilders," biographies of the artists of the Netherlands, which work may be considered as a continuation of that by Arnold Houbraken. Twice visited England. His works show the decadence of the Dutch school in colouring, effect, and style. Works: Landscape with Cattle, Amsterdam Museum; Girl milking a Cow, Rotterdam Museum; Landscape with Satyrs, Lille Museum; Wood Landscape with Figures and Herd (1719), Schwerin Gallery.—Immerzeel, i. 288; Kramm, ii. 589.

GOOSE GIRL (Gardeuse d'Oies), Jean François Millet, private gallery, New York. A little peasant girl watching a flock of geese. Sold by Pillet in Paris (1881), for 35,000 francs.

GORDON, Sir JOHN WATSON, born in Edinburgh in 1790, died there, June 1, 1864. Son of Captain Watson, R.N., and nephew of George Watson, portrait painter; assumed name of Gordon in 1826. Having first tried historical painting with little success, he turned his attention to portraiture, and became the leading portrait painter in Edinburgh, after the death of Raeburn. Elected in 1841 an A.R.A., and in 1851 R.A.; succeeded, in 1850, Sir William Allan as President of the Scotch Academy, being appointed at same time limner to the Queen in Scotland, and knighted. Works: Sir David Brewster, National Gallery, London; Marquis of Dalhousie, De Quincey, Professor J. Wilson, National Portrait Gallery, ib.; Lord Murray, Lord Cockburn, Sir Walter Scott, Grandfather's Lesson, six other male portraits, National Gallery, Edinburgh; Earl of Hopetoun, Earl of Dalhousie, Archers' Hall, ib.; Sir James Hall, Royal Society, ib.—Redgrave; F. de Conches, 416; Sandby, i. 287.

GORGASUS, painter and modeller in clay. Decorated, in company with Damophilus, the Temple of Ceres, Liber, and Libera, at Rome (dedicated 494 ).—Pliny, xxxv. 45 [154]; Brunn, i. 530; ii. 57.

GOSSART (Gossaert), JAN. See Mabuse.

GOSSE, NICOLAS LOUIS FRANÇOIS, born in Paris, Oct. 2, 1787, died at Soncourt (Haute-Marne), Feb. 9, 1878. History and portrait painter, pupil of Vincent; painted in a hall of the Louvre scenes from Greek and Roman mythology. Medals: 3d class, 1819; 2d class, 1824; L. of Honour, 1828; Officer, 1870. Works: Crossing the Styx (1819); Adoration of the Magi (1827); The