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 the Samaritan Woman, Descent from the Cross (1839); Byron's Corsair, Crown of Thorns (1840); Spaniards Threshing, Returning from the Fields (1841); Spanish Gypsy Women Bathing, Massacre of Innocents (1845), Rouen Museum; Gypsies and Spanish Smugglers, Tomb of Les Énerves at Jumièges (1847); Perseus rescuing Andromeda (1849); Pietà (1850); Establishing the Magistracy (1855), bought by State; Virgin with SS. Joseph and Simon, Greek Woman Bathing (1863); Christ among the Doctors (1865), Préfecture de la Seine, Paris; Cornelia's Jewels, Art in the Time of Pericles (1869); Combat of Hooglide, 1794, do. of Aicha, 1805 (1836); Louis XII. in Battle of Agnadel, 1509, Taking of Château de Foix (1837); Godfrey de Bouillon holding the first Assizes in Jerusalem, 1110 (1839), Louis le Gros capturing the Oriflamme at St. Denis, Battle of Seminara, Battle of Tourcoing, Portraits of Philip III. and Marshal Catinat, Versailles Museum; Portraits of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and others.—Bellier, i. 834; Larousse, ix. 1006; Nou. biog. gen., xxvi. 850.

JONAH, Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Rome; fresco on ceiling.

By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; oval, on ceiling of upper room. The whale, whose mouth is as large as a cavern, has lifted Jonah out on his tongue, so that it forms a kind of red cushion for him to kneel on in his submission to the Deity.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 348; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 198.

JONAS, RUDOLF, born at Goldapp, East-Prussia, in 1822. Landscape painter, pupil of Königsberg Academy under Behrendsen; went in 1851 to Munich, whence he visited the Bavarian Alps, Tyrol, Switzerland, and North Italy; taught in Dantzic from 1852 to 1854, when he moved to Munich. In 1856 made a four months' journey through Corsica, and settled in Berlin in 1860. Works: View of Ajaccio; High Plain on Bay of Ajaccio; Burial Hill in Corsica; View near the Haff; Oliva Monastery near Dantzic; Deserted Saw Mill; Inn Valley in Southern Bavaria; Monastery near Elbing; Mountain-Brook; Strait of Bonifacio.—Müller, 285.

JONES, GEORGE, born in London, Jan. 6, 1786, died there, Sept. 19, 1869. Battle painter, son of John Jones, engraver; student of Royal Academy in 1801, and an exhibitor in 1803; was an officer of militia in Peninsular War, and was in Paris in 1815. Painted battle and subject pieces on return of peace, and became A.R.A. in 1822 and R.A. in 1824; librarian in 1834-40, and keeper in 1840-50. Works: Battle of Borodino (1829), Town-hall at Utrecht (1829, lent to Corporation of Oldham), The Fiery Furnace (1832), Lady Godiva (1833), Relief of Lucknow, Cawnpore—Passage of the Ganges (1869, last three lent to Corporation of Coventry), National Gallery, London; View in Rotterdam, Grosvenor House, ib.; Nelson boarding the San Josef at St. Vincent, Greenwich Hospital; Battle of Waterloo, Chelsea Hospital; do., National Gallery, Edinburgh; Orléans, Woburn Abbey; Relief of Lucknow, Cawnpore, Glasgow Gallery; others in South Kensington Museum; portrait of Sir Charles Napier, National Portrait Gallery.—Redgrave; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Sandby, ii. 36.

JONES, HUGH BOLTON, born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 20, 1848. Landscape painter, studied in Baltimore. In 1877 visited Europe, and studied there four years, sketching in Spain and Brittany. Elected an A.N.A. in 1881 and N.A. in 1883. Studio in New York. Works: Ferry Inn, Summer on the Blue Ridge (1874); Twilight on Bean Creek, J. W. McCoy, Baltimore; Tangier, W. T. Walters, ib.; Return of the Cows—Brittany, Heath in Bloom—Brittany (1878); French Landscape (1880); The Kasba from Moorish Cemetery—Tangier (1881); October, Early Spring (1882); Near Annisquam—Massachusetts Coast, Landscape—South Orange (1883); Near Plymouth Meeting—Pa., On Herring Run—Baltimore (1884). Frank C. Jones, brother of the preceding,