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 GRIMM, LUDWIG EMIL, born at Hanau, May 14, 1790, died at Cassel, April 4, 1863. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil in Munich of Karl Hess; took part in the campaign of 1814 against France, returned to Cassel, and in 1815 spent some time in Munich. Visited Italy in 1816, and then settled in Cassel, where he became professor at the Academy in 1833. Works: Madonna (1818); Holy Family; Baptism of the Moors; Death of St. Elizabeth; Hessian Peasant Girl in Sunday Attire; Young Peasant Girl going to Church; Peasant Woman at a Grave; Portraits of Artist, of Ludwig Hassenpflug, Baron von Dörnberg, Clemens Brentano.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 689; Andresen, v. 117.

GRIMMER, HANS, German school, 16th century. Portrait painter, pupil at Mentz of Matthias Grünewald. Works: Altar wings, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Portraits (1570), Vienna Museum; do., Ratisbon Gallery; Male and Female Portrait, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg.—Kugler (Crowe), i. 188; W. & W., ii. 440.

GRIMOU (Grimoux, or Grimoud), ALEXIS (Jean?), born at Romont, Switzerland, about 1680, died in Paris about 1740. French school. Trained himself by copying works of Van Dyck and Rembrandt; painted mostly female half figures, represented as singing or playing, or as pilgrims. Received into the Academy in 1705, but struck off the list in 1709 on account of his habitual drunkenness and disorderly life. Works: Portrait of Himself (1724), Man Drinking (1724), Young Officer (2), Female Pilgrim (1729), Louvre; Mme. Lebaïf, Versailles Museum; Portrait of Little Girl, Nîmes Museum; Young Woman, David and Goliath, Besançon Museum; Female Portraits (3), Avignon Museum; Capuchin, Young Pilgrim, Female Musician, Bordeaux Museum; Head of a Young Man, Grenoble Museum; Portrait of an Architect, Nantes Museum; do. of an Actor, Orléans Museum; Artist's portrait, Perpignan Museum; Girl as Page, Basle Museum; Female Portraits (2, 1731), Carlsruhe Gallery; Portrait of Young Man, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Boy playing a Flute, Dresden Museum; Portrait of a Woman, Dulwich Gallery; copy of Murillo's Good Shepherd, Lord Ellesmere; Woman holding a Mask, M. Furtado; Head of a Young Woman, M. Adolphe Fould.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 699; Ch. Blanc, École française; Lejeune, Guide, i. 422; Mariette, Abecedario, 2.

GRISWOLD, C. C., born in Ohio in 1834. Landscape painter, formerly had a studio in New York; has lived several years in Rome. Elected an A.N.A. in 1866, and N.A. in 1867. Works: Autumnal Scene, December, Last of the Ice (1864); Winter Morning (1865); August Day—Newport (1866); Early Spring (1869); Purgatory Point, Newport, Seaside Landscape (1870); Lago de Nemi (1874); Ponte Nolle across the Tiber (1878), E. B. Haskell; View on the Hudson, J. J. Astor, New York.

GRITTI, ANDREA, Doge, portrait, Titian, Palazzo Giustiniani, Padua; canvas, H. 3 ft. 11-1/2 in. × 3 ft. 3 in. Painted in 1524; in Titian's house until his death; sold in 1581 by Pomponio Vecelli to Cristoforo Barberigo; thence passed by inheritance to Count Giustiniani. Many replicas by Titian; copies by Pordenone in Czernin Collection, Vienna, by Tintoretto in Hermitage, St. Petersburg, and by Rubens, exhibited in Royal Academy, London, 1870.—C. & C., Titian, i. 299; Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 262; Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 438.

GROB, KONRAD, born at Andelfingen, Switzerland, in 1828. Genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Ramberg, after he had studied (1842-45) the elements of art in Winterthur, and spent many years in Italy. Works: Captured Mouse (1870); Italian Beggar Children; Painting a Peasant Girl; Painter on Study Trip, Zürich Gallery; Visit on the Ladder; Sunday Afternoon in Switzerland; Father Pestalozzi (1879), Basle