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 on the Shores of Troy, for which he received a first-class medal, he spent several years in St. Petersburg, where he painted many flattered portraits, and was made Member of the Academy. In 1812 he went to Stockholm, then painted portraits in England, and after his return to France in 1816 became popular as a lithographer. Medals: 2d class, 1824; 1st class, 1831; L. of Honour, 1832.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 697.

GREVEN, ANTON, born in Cologne in 1810, died there in 1838. Portrait and genre painter, studied in Düsseldorf and Munich. Works: Drinking Monks; Coffee-Drinkers; Knight and his Sweetheart; Count Eberhard the Rauschebart, The Toper (1834).

GREY, LADY JANE, EXECUTION OF, Paul Delaroche, H. W. Eaton, M. P., London; canvas. Beheading of Lady Jane Grey in the Tower of London, February 12, 1554. She is kneeling upon the scaffold beside the block, her eyes bandaged, her hands extended, while a priest encircles her form with his arm and whispers consolation; at right, the executioner, standing, holding his axe; at left, two women overwhelmed with grief. Painted in 1834. Bought at San Donato sale (1868), 110,000 francs. Engraved by P. Mercury.—L'Illustration (1870), i. 100.

GRIEF. See Gryeff.

GRIEN or GRÜN. See Baldung.

GRIEPENKERL, CHRISTIAN, born at Oldenburg, March 17, 1839. History and portrait painter, pupil in Vienna of Rahl; a masterly colourist, with a predominant fancy for allegories; executed decorations in the Vienna Opera House with Bitterlich after Rahl's compositions, then in 1878 in the Augusteum at Oldenburg, afterwards in the Academy of Science at Athens, and in the new Houses of Parliament in Vienna. Professor at Vienna Academy since 1875. Works: Œdipus led by Antigone, Scenes from Anacreon, Baron Todesco, Vienna; Myth of Orpheus, Opera House, ib.; Coronation of Esther, Sentence of Haman, Palais Ephrussi, ib.; Poseidon's Wedding Procession, Demons of Storm, Guardian Spirits of the Sea, Baron Sina, Venice; Wedding of Aphrodite and Adonis, Villa Simon, Hietzing, near Vienna; Venus Urania, Genii of Truth and Fancy, Myth of Prometheus, Allegorical Figures of Plastic Art (1878), Augusteum, Oldenburg; Myth of Prometheus, Academy of Science, Athens; thirteen pictures from Antique Mythology and History, House of Lords, Vienna.—Brockhaus, viii. 417; Illustr. Zeitg. (1865); Kunst-Chronik, i.-iv.; xx. 755; Müller, 217.

GRIFFIER, JAN, born in Amsterdam in 1656, died in London in 1718. Dutch school; landscape painter, pupil of Roeland Rogman, in whose atelier he became acquainted with Rembrandt, Ruysdael, Adriaan van de Velde, and Lingelbach. In 1667 he went to London, where he painted Italian landscapes with ruins, and views of the Thames. As the latter found great favour, he bought a vessel in 1695 and sailed about between Windsor and Gravesend in order to study coast scenery. In 1695 he sailed for Rotterdam, but was wrecked and lost all his property. Nevertheless, he bought a new vessel and again cruised from place to place to paint. In 1787 he returned to England, where his pictures were greatly valued. Works: Ruins, View of Windsor Castle, Hampton Court Palace; Landscape, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; View on the Rhine (2), Louvre, Paris; do. Bordeaux Museum; River View, Amsterdam Museum; Landscapes (2), Stuttgart Gallery; do. (2), Augsburg Gallery; do. (2), Brunswick Museum; Winter Landscape near Leyden, with Skaters, Gotha Museum; do. (15), Dresden