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 Royal Theatre, Dante and Virgil (1879), Allegories in Cupola and Venetian Room (fresco, 1854), Dresden Museum; Scenes from History of House of Solms (1856-58), Castle Wildenfels; Abraham and the Angels (1862); Reign of Creative Power (1865-71, fresco), Leipsic Museum; Myth of Bacchus, cycle in fresco (1877), Foyer, New Theatre, Dresden; Science, Plato and Aristotle with their Disciples, Cicero (1885). Frescos: Aula, St. Afra's School, Meissen; Apollo and Marsyas (1885).—Brockhaus, viii. 535; Illustr. Zeitg. (1872), i. 387; (1873), i. 124; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 700; xxi. 81.

GROTTGER, ARTHUR, born at Ottynowice, Galicia, Nov. 11, 1837, died at Amélie-les-Bains, Pyrenees, Dec. 13, 1867. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil in Vienna of Karl Blaas; painted many excellent portraits, and, taking up political genre, attained renown through his able and original treatment of patriotic subjects. Works: Meeting of John Sobieski with Leopold I. (1859); Warsaw in seven scenes (1861); Poland in nine, and Lithuania in six pictures (1863); In the Valley of Tears—thirteen scenes (1865).—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 784; F. M. Aren, Arth. Grottger; Brockhaus, viii. 546; Illustr. Zeitg. (1866)—(1867)—; Wurzbach, xi. 420.

GROUX, CHARLES CORNEILLE AUGUSTE DE, born at Comines, West Flanders, in 1825, died March 30, 1870. History and genre painter, pupil of Brussels Academy under Navez. Medal, 1857; Order of Leopold, 1860. Works: The Idler; Ash Wednesday; Tavern-Brawl; Last Farewell; Sick Child; The Walk (1855); Saying Grace, Brussels Museum; Protestant Sermon; Death of Charles V.; Citizens of Calais before Edward III.; Pilgrimage; Alms; Doctor's Visit; Decorations in Market Hall at Ypres.

GRUBER, FRANZ XAVER, born in Vienna, Sept. 28, 1801, died there, April 12, 1862. Flower painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, where he obtained four prizes, and of which he became professor in 1835. In 1839 he was made member of the Milan Academy. Works in the Museum, the Academy, and Imperial Library, Vienna. His brother, Karl Franz (1803-45), and his sister, Katharina (1807-59), were also able flower painters.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 791; Wurzbach, v. 379.

GRUND, JOHANN, born in Vienna in 1808. History and genre painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, where he obtained two first prizes; went then to Munich, Düsseldorf, and Paris, lived for some time in Rome, settled in Carlsruhe, and afterwards in Baden-Baden. Works: Child and Guardian Angel (1835); Hungarian Tinker (1838); Bathing Girl (1840); Flight into Egypt, Italian Robber Asleep, Italian Woman and Child, Deborah, Carlsruhe Gallery; Roman Peasant Woman playing with her Child (1843), Vienna Museum; Invalid; Playing Sisters; Girl going to Nunnery; Country Parson's Birthday; Group of three Young Girls (1853), Medea (1855), Last Rose (1865), Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen; Young Smokers; Margaret in Prison; Deborah; Judith; Hagar and Ishmael; Diana; Esther; Magdalen; Rebekah at the Well (1879); Ganymede (1885).—Müller, 220; Wurzbach, v. 398.

GRUND, NORBERT, born in Prague in 1714, died there in 1767. Genre painter, pupil in Vienna of Ferg; travelled in Germany and Upper Italy, and returned in 1741 to Prague, where he soon became the favourite and the most prolific painter of his time. His numerous excellent pictures, consisting of battle scenes, kirmesses, pastorals, and children's play scenes, landscapes, and marines, are in private collections in Prague and in the castles of the Bohemian nobility. A Rural Dance, and A Banquet in a Garden, attributed to him, in the Dresden Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 34; Wurzbach, v. 397.

GRUNDMANN, OTTO, born in Dresden in 1848. Portrait and genre painter, studied under Professor Hübner and Van Lerius,