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 great reputation; in 1766 was called to Dresden as court-painter and professor at the Academy. There he developed an extraordinary activity, painted temporarily also in Berlin and Leipsic, besides making excursions into Southern Germany and Switzerland. According to his own statement, he painted, in 1766-73, 943 portraits and family groups, besides copying old masters for the Russian court and for his own improvement. Works: Portrait of Frederic Augustus of Saxony, do. (3) of himself, of Gellert, and six others, Dresden Gallery; do. of the Actor Eckhoff (1774), Gotha Museum; do. of the Painter Zingg, Saint Gall Museum; seven portraits, Leipsic Museum; six do., Weimar Museum; two do., Zürich Gallery; two do., National Gallery, Berlin; two do., Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Prince Friedrich Albrecht of Anhalt, Brunswick Museum; portraits of himself in Old Pinakothek, Munich, and Christiania Museum; do. of Lessing, Herder, Schiller, Moses Mendelssohn, Weisse, Ramler, Sulzer (Berne Museum), Hagedorn, Tiedge, Gluck, Chodowiecky, King Frederic William II. His son, Karl Anton (born in Dresden, March 10, 1774, died there, March 9, 1832), was an able landscape painter, pupil of Zingg in Dresden.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 565; Brockhaus, viii. 269; Muther, Ant. Graff, sein Leben, etc. (Leipsic, 1881).

GRÄFLE, ALBERT, born at Freiburg, Baden, May 2, 1809. History and portrait painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Cornelius and Schnorr; and in Paris in 1840 under Winterhalter; returned to Munich, went in 1848 to Alsace, where he painted portraits, then to England, again to Paris, and settled in Munich in 1852. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1846. Works: Madonna, Triumphal Procession of Arminius, Carlsruhe Gallery; altarpieces in Lahr and Dundenheim, Baden; Four Seasons, Royal Palace, Carlsruhe; Procession in Dachau; Intimate Friends at Beethoven's; Dance of Elves; Woman with a Rose, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; portraits of Queen Victoria and Family, Princess of Wales, Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia, Grand Duchess Louise of Baden, Emperor Maximilian and Empress of Mexico.—Müller, 216.

GRAHAM, JOHN, born in Scotland in 1754, died at Edinburgh in 1817. History painter, first apprenticed to a coach painter in Edinburgh, then in London pupil at the Royal Academy, where he exhibited from 1780 to 1797. Appointed in 1798 master of Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh, where he had among his pupils Wilkie, Allan, Burnett, and Gordon. Works: Daniel in Lions' Den (1780); Una (1783); Ceres in Search of Proserpine (1786); Escape of Mary Stuart from Lochleven (1788), Portrait of an Alderman, Stationers' Hall, London; Mary Stuart before Execution (1792); David instructing Solomon (1797); The Disobedient Prophet, National Gallery, Edinburgh.

GRAHAM, MARY, portrait, Thomas Gainsborough, National Gallery, Edinburgh; canvas. The Honourable Mrs. Graham, wife of Thomas Graham, of Balgowan, afterwards Lord Lynedoch; full length, standing. Painted in 1778; after death of Lord Lynedoch (1843), came into possession of Robert Graham of Redgorton, who bequeathed it in 1859 to National Gallery. Study for the head in same Gallery. Etched by Waltner; C. O. Murray in Portfolio.—Brock-Arnold, Biog. Great Artists, 50; Portfolio (1880), 2; Athenæum, Aug., 1869, 250.

GRAHAM, PETER, born in Edinburgh in 1836. Landscape painter, pupil of School of Design, Edinburgh; removed to London in 1866; elected an A.R.S.A. in 1860, but resigned in 1877, when he was made an honourable member; A.R.A. in 1877, R.A. in 1882. Paints chiefly Highland scenes with cattle, and rocky shores. Works: Spate in the Highlands (1866), Hermon sale, 1882, £787;