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 underwent great perils, but escaped by the aid of Kosciuszko. Went by invitation of the Duke of Courland to Sagan, and thence to Dresden, where in 1799 he became professor at the Academy. In 1816-21 was in Rome as director of the Saxon art pensionaries. Distinguished and decorated by the King of Saxony and the Duke of Gotha; also member of several Academies. Works: St. John Baptist, St. Peter, Dresden Gallery; The Arcadians, Callisto asleep, St. Ann instructing the Virgin, Female Figure walking, Fairy on Chariot, Portrait of Duke Frederic IV. of Saxe-Gotha, do. of Minister von Lindenau (1814), and copies after Albani, Correggio, and Raphael, Gotha Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 592; Wurzbach, v. 314.

GRATELLA. See Filippi, Sebastiano.

GRAY, HENRY PETERS, born in New York, June 23, 1819, died there, Nov. 12, 1877. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of Huntington. Visited Europe in 1840, studied in Rome and Venice; went abroad again in 1846, and to Florence in 1871, remaining four years. Elected N.A. in 1842, President of National Academy from 1869 to 1871. Works: Pride of the Village, R. M. Olyphant; Wages of War, Metropolitan Museum, New York; Portrait of William Cullen Bryant, Historical Society, ib.; Cupid begging his Arrow, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia; Judgment of Paris, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Twilight Musings; Blessed are the Pure in Heart; Truth; Ophelia; Normandy Girl; Jessica or the Pride of the Rialto; Model from Cadore; Immortality of the Soul, Edwin Hoyt; Birth of our Flag (1875); Flower of Fiesole, Just Fifteen (1875), M. O. Roberts, New York; Apple of Discord (1876).—Tuckerman, 442.

GRAYSON, CLIFFORD PREVOST, born in Philadelphia in 1857. Genre painter, pupil of Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris of Gérôme. Works: Breton Idyl (1881); Going to Market (1882); Un fichu temps (1883); Ohe, le canot! (1884); Fisher-chilren at Concarneau (1885).—Art Journal (1884), 222.

GRAZIANI, ERCOLE, born at Bologna in 1688, died in 1765. Bolognese school. History painter, pupil of Donato Creti (1671-1749, a coronation of Charles V., by whom is in the Bologna Gallery), whom he surpassed in both design and colouring; painted a great number of pictures for public buildings at Bologna and Piacenza, and especially for the churches of Bologna. Works: St. Peter consecrating St. Apollinaris amidst an Assembly of Early Christians, Bologna; Marriage of St. Catherine, St. Ann teaching the Virgin to read, S. Bartolommeo di Reno, ib.; Ascension, Chiesa della Purità, ib.; Annunciation, Madonna delle Rondini, ib.; replica of first-named, and Baptism of Christ, Sant' Apollinare, Rome.

GREATOREX, ELIZA, born at Manor-Hamilton, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1820. Landscape painter; settled in New York in 1839. Pupil of Émile Lambinet in Paris, in 1861; earlier helped by the criticisms of Cafferty, W. W. Wotherspoon, and James M. Hart. Has visited Europe repeatedly. Elected an A.N.A. in 1868. Studio in New York. Works: Road Scene in Connecticut; Old House in Bloomingdale; Joy Bridge—Peltigor, Ireland; Amsterdam; Fort Hamilton—Long Island; Bay Ridge; Normandy Cottage (1881); Fontainebleau Forest, Cressonières-Veules en Caux (1882); Laurel Run—Virginia; Louis Philippe House in 1868—Bloomingdale, M. de Mendonça; Somerendyke Lake—Bloomingdale (1884). Kate and Eleanor, daughters of Mrs. Greatorex, also paint and exhibit at the National Academy; they have studied abroad and under their mother, whose studio they share. Miss Kate Greatorex has exhibited: Last Bit of Autumn (1875); Goethe's Fountain—Frankfort (1876); Thistles (1877); Alge