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 in Cairo (1806), Versailles Museum; Andromache and Pyrrhus (1810), Louvre, Replica in Bordeaux Museum; Cephalus and Aurora (1810); Dido listening to Story of Æneas (1817), Louvre; Clytemnestra urged by Egisthus to murder Agamemnon (1817), Louvre; Murder of Priam, St. Louis rendering Justice, Angers Museum; Death of Marshal Lannes in Battle of Essling, Valenciennes Museum; Portrait of Henri de la Rochejacquelin (1817).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 714; Ch. Blanc, École française; Larousse; Lenormant, B. Arts et Voyages, i. 142; Meyer, Gesch., 125.

GUESNET, LOUIS FÉLIX, born at Fitz-James (Oise), April 27, 1843. Genre painter, pupil of Lamothe. Medals: 2d class, 1872; 1st class, 1873. Works: Mazeppa (1872); Roland at Roncevalles (1873); Barbarians in a Roman Villa (1875); Hunting (1882).

GUET, CHARLEMAGNE OSCAR, born in Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), Jan. 24, 1801, died in Paris, Nov. 29, 1871. Genre painter, pupil of Hersent and of Horace Vernet. He gathered his subjects from many countries, and exhibited regularly from 1819 to 1850. Medals: 2d class, 1822 and 1831; 1st class, 1839; L. of Honour, 1846. Works: Cuirassiers of the Guard (1822); Little Organ-Player; Soldier's Return; Military Stable; Oyster-Bed at Grandville; Fishermen of Grandville and Cancale; A Barbarism; Trout-Fishing; Pluck the Rose in the Morning of Life; The Panniers, Marino Faliero and Helena; Norman and Breton Sailors; Sick Child; Phœbus and Mme. Gondelaurier; Phœbus and Esmeralda with Falourdel; Return from the Fields; Return from Market; The Fountain; Mother's Caresses; Preparing for the Ball; Magnolia; Woman Bathing; Revery, Coming from the Bath.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 717.

GUEVARA, JUAN NIÑO DE, born at Madrid in 1632, died at Malaga in 1698. History painter, pupil of Miguel Manrique and of Alonso Cano. His works in Malaga, Granada, and Cordova have been compared to those of Van Dyck.

GUFFENS, GODFROID, born at Hasselt, Limburg, July 23, 1823. History painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under Nicaise de Keyser, then with his fellow-student Jan Swerts visited Paris in 1847, the art centres of Germany in 1850, and Italy in 1850-52. After their return they worked conjointly until 1874, when Swerts became director of the Prague Academy. In 1858 they were sent by the government to Munich, to report on the first great German Art exhibition, which caused the exhibition in Brussels in 1859 of cartoons by Cornelius, Kaulbach, Schwind, etc., greatly influencing Belgian art. Honorary member of Munich, Dresden (1859), and Amsterdam (1861) Academies, of German Art Union (1859); corresponding member of Institut de France (1873); member of Brussels (1876) and Antwerp (1880) Academies. Gold medals, Brussels, 1848, 1851; Order of Leopold, 1855; Officer, 1869; Baden Order of Zähringer Lion, 1860; Order of Oaken Crown, 1861; Weimar Order of White Falcon, 1865; Papal Order of Gregory, 1871; Order of Francis Joseph, 1875. Removed from Antwerp to Brussels in 1871. Works: Galileo in Prison; Coronation of Virgin; Count van Looz granting Community of Hasselt the Privilege of City; Scene from Destruction of Pompeii; Prayer of the Three Sisters; Imprisoned Blanca von Felsenstein in Prayer; Christ allaying the Storm; Hymnus Mysticus; Lucretia and her Women; Pausias and Glycera; Rouget de Lisle singing the Marseillaise for the First Time, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia; Julia and her Mother; Return from Holy Sepulchre, Altarpiece with Madonna and Saints; Portraits. Frescos: Seven Sorrows of the Virgin (1855-70), Notre Dame at St. Nicolas, near Antwerp; Scenes from Life of Christ (1859-71), St.