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 an old woman counting money; a young servant with a wooden pail, and a boy carrying a vase. The whole is seen through a window, on the sill of which are vegetables and a jug. Beunengen sale, Amsterdam (1716), 1,200 florins; Backer sale, Leyden (1766), 7,150 florins; Randon de Boisset sale (1777), 15,500 livres; Comte de Vaudreuil sale (1784), 16,901 livres; Duc de Praslin sale (1793), 34,850 livres. Engraved by Dambrun.—Filhol, v. Pl. 356.

GREENHILL, JOHN, born at Salisbury in 1649, died in London, May 19, 1676. Pupil of Sir Peter Lely, whose style he imitated both in oil and crayons. Left a few fine portraits, but dissolute habits injured his reputation. Died suddenly by an accidental fall in Long Acre. Works: Bishop Seth Ward, Town Hall, Salisbury; Charles II., Earl of Shaftesbury, National Portrait Gallery, London.—Redgrave; F. de Conches, 60.

GREFE, KONRAD, born in Vienna, Sept. 7, 1823. Landscape painter, pupil of Schindler, then of Vienna Academy under Mössmer and Gsellhofer, but studied chiefly from nature; devoted himself for several years to etching, and since 1855 has painted in water-colours the mediæval churches of Austria. Works: Woodland in Fog, Sunset (1852); Ruin in Park of Schönbrunn, View near the Schneeberg (1853); Ruins near Hainburg, Evening Landscape (1855); Old Jewish Cemetery at Prague (1856); Deserted Mill (1858); Storm Landscape (1859).—Wurzbach, v. 321.

GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN, born at Southampton in 1850. Portrait and landscape painter, pupil of Southampton and South Kensington Art Schools. Elected member of Institute of Painters in Water Colours, where he exhibited his St. George in 1876. First exhibited at Royal Academy in 1875; elected an A.R.A. in 1883. Visited Italy in 1882. Works: Portrait of Duncan McLaren, M.P. (1877); Portrait of Rev. Thomas Stevens (1879); The Signal, A Rehearsal (1882); Piccadilly—Drawing-Room Day, Grand Canal—Venice, Boat-Builder's Yard—Venice, Gates of Arsenal—Venice, Cà d'Oro—Venice (1883); Startled, Fishing in Marlow Backwater (1884).—Art Journal (1883), 95; Portfolio (1878), 161; Mag. of Art (1884), 353.

GREGORY PROMULGATING THE DECRETALS, Raphael, Camera della Segnatura, Vatican; fresco, right of window. Pope Gregory IX. (portrait of Julius II.) seated, blessing the Decretals, which he hands to a kneeling jurist of the Consistory; among the prelates around him are Giovanni de' Medici (Leo X.), Alessandro Farnese (Paul III.), and Antonio del Monte. Illustrates the consecration of Canon Law; companion piece to Justinian promulgating the Pandects. Painted in 1511. Engraved by Fr. Aquila; Giangiacomo.—Passavant, ii. 87; Müntz, 345; Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 337.

GREGORY, ST., MIRACLE OF, Andrea Sacchi, Vatican; figures life-size. Some ambassadors desiring to carry certain relics into their country were given by Gregory the Great a vase containing cloths which had touched the bodies of saints. They having expressed dissatisfaction at the gift, Gregory took one of the cloths, and, piercing it, showed them, to their astonishment, drops of blood falling from it. Carried to Paris in 1799; returned in 1815.—Landon, Musée, 2d Col., ii. Pl. 41.

GREGORY, ST., SUPPER OF, Giorgio Vasari, Bologna Gallery; wood, H. 12 ft. 2 in. × 8 ft. 4 in.; signed, dated 1540. Pope Gregory I. (the Great) always had twelve poor men to sup with him; but one night he saw thirteen at the table, though his steward could count but twelve, and he believed the odd one to be Christ himself. The picture represents this scene. Formerly in refectory of monastery of S. Michele in Bosco. Engraved by G. Tomba.—*