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GRANDI, ERCOLE DI GIULIO, born in Ferrara about 1462, died there, July, 1531. Lombard school. Called also Ercole da Ferrara. Son of Giulio Cesare Grandi; was in the service of the Duke of Ferrara in 1492-99. He was a disciple of Costa, or rather of Francia as represented by Costa, in his later period. Among his typical works may be cited the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian in S. Paolo, Ferrara, and the St. George and the Dragon in the Corsini Gallery, Rome; Conversion of St. Paul, National Gallery, London.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 531, 550; Cittadella, Notizie di Ferrara, 422; Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 141; ed. Le Mon., iv. 247; Burckhardt, 582.

GRANDI, ERCOLE DI ROBERTO, died in Ferrara before 1513. Lombard school. Called also Ercole da Ferrara or Ferrarese. Son of Roberto Grandi, and partner of his brother as a painter and gold-beater in Ferrara in 1479. Salaried by the Duke of Ferrara, by whom he was frequently employed; finished a view of Naples in 1490-93; and painted in 1494 the likeness of Hercules I. for Isabella of Mantua. Vasari, who confounds him with Ercole the disciple of Costa, ascribes to him the frescos in the Garganelli Chapel of S. Pietro, now destroyed. His Capture and Procession to Golgotha in the Dresden Museum (the centre-piece, belonging to these, a Pietà, is in the Royal Institution at Liverpool) show that he was a close follower of Mantegna rather than of Costa. In similar style are: Christ on the Mount, Ravenna Gallery; Crucified Saviour, Museo Civico, Venice; and the Lucretia, Modena Gallery.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 530; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iv. 247; ed. Mil., iii. 141; Cittadella, Notizie di Ferrara, 583; Burckhardt, 582.

GRANDSIRE, EUGÈNE, born at Orléans, March 18, 1825. Landscape painter, pupil of J. Noël and Jules Dupré. Teacher of drawing in the École des Arts et Métiers, Paris. L. of Honour, 1874. Works: Pont du Moulin (1865), Orléans Museum; The Brook (1866), Nantes Museum; River Meurthe (1874); Mill of Simoneau, Road to Fountain of St. Guinolé (1877); View near Gratain, Pasture in Sologne (1878); Valley of Plainfaing (1879); Valley of Bains, River Meurthe (1880); Port of Dieppe, Canal at Tréport (1881), Luxembourg Museum; Valley of the Bagnerot in November (1882); The Campine at Antwerp, Dieppe (1883); Kattendyk at Antwerp, Canal at Antwerp (1884); Sunrise, Sunset—Antwerp (1885).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 687.

GRANET, FRANÇOIS-MARIUS, born in Aix, Provence, Dec. 17, 1775, died there, Nov. 21, 1849. Architecture painter, first instructed by an unknown Italian, then by the landscape painter Constantin, and afterwards by David in Paris. In 1802 he went to Rome, where he spent the greater part of his life and painted most of his pictures. They were chiefly interiors of churches, monasteries, etc., with historical scenes. Returned to Paris in 1819, made custodian of the paintings of the Louvre in 1826, and member of the Institute in 1830. After the revolution of 1848 he retired to Aix, and bequeathed to his native city his fortune and all his pictures to found a museum. Medal, 1808; L. of Honour, 1819; Officer, 1833; Order of St. Michael, 1826. Works: Interior of the Coliseum (1806), The Painter Sodoma carried to the Hospital (1815), Interior of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi (1823), Ransom of Prisoners in Algiers (1831), Portrait of Himself, Louvre, Paris; Funeral Honours to the Victims of Fieschi's Infernal Machine (1839), Invalides, ib.;