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masterly touch. Works: Portrait of Peter the Great, Judah and Thamar, National Museum, Amsterdam; An Eastern Prince (1685), Copenhagen Gallery; Simeon in the Temple, Darmstadt Gallery; Portrait of Old Woman (1685), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Jewish Bride, Study for Portrait of Old Man, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Ecce Homo (1671), Dresden Gallery; Judah and Thamar, Vienna Academy; Male Portrait, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Portrait of a Dutch Admiral, New York Museum; Twenty-two Scenes from Christ's Passion.—Immerzeel, i. 273; Kramm, ii. 555; De Stuers, 333; Vosmaer, 318.
GELDORP (Gualdorp), GORTZIUS, born
at Louvain in 1553, died in Cologne in
1616 or 1618. Flemish school; history and
portrait painter, pupil in Antwerp of Frans
Francken the elder, afterwards of Frans
Pourbus the elder. Entered the service of
the Duke of Terra Nova, with whom he
went to Cologne in 1579. His portraits are
lively in conception, expressive, and finely
coloured; pictures mostly painted on wood.
Works: Portrait of Jansenius, Aremberg
Gallery, Brussels; Christ on the Cross,
Penitent Magdalen, Madonna(?), Portraits
of Husband and Wife (1572), Male Portrait
(1610), eight others, Cologne Museum;
Male Portrait (1611), Weimar Museum; do.
(1628), and Female Portrait, Schwerin Gallery;
Lucretia, Male Portrait, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg; Portraits in Augsburg Gallery,
Brera, Milan, Darmstadt (2), Gotha (4),
and Vienna Museums. His son, Melchior
Geldorp (flourished 1620-40), also painted
history and portraits.—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
viii. 531; Biog. nat. de Belgique, vii. 563;
Kramm, ii. 558; Merlo, 128.
GÉLIBERT, JULES BERTRAND, born
at Bagnères-de-Bigorre (Hautes-Pyrénées),
Nov. 26, 1834. Animal painter, pupil of
his father and of Toulouse Academy under
Griffoul-Dorval. Medal, 1869; 2d class,
1883. Works: Wolf attacked by Dogs,
Rallye-Sivry! (1869); Exit from Kennel
(1872); After the Hunt in Fontainebleau
Forest (1873); Swamp near Belle Croix
(1874); Young Hounds in the Thicket;
Hunting Episode in Scotland, New Acquaintances
(1875); Sweet Repose (1878);
Stag beating the Water, The Victors (1880);
Rendez-vous, A First Experience (1881);
Taken, In a Mass (1882); Wounded, Alert
(1883); Limehounds, Ready to Start (1884);
Capture of a Young Wolf, Hearing the Dogs
Attack (1885).—Bellier de la Chavignerie,
i. 629.
GELLÉE. See Claude Lorrain.
GEMMEL, HERMANN, born at Barten,
East Prussia, in 1814, died in Königsberg,
March 22, 1868. Architecture painter, pupil
of Biermann and of W. Schirmer, became
professor at the Königsberg Academy
in 1845, and visited Italy in 1850 and 1855.
Works: Family Hall in Mediæval Castle
(1855); Chapel of Cardinal Zeno in St.
Mark's; Baptistery in St. Mark's, Venice.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., viii. 556; Dioskuren,
1868, 127; Brockhaus, vii. 741.
GENDRON, AUGUSTE, born in Paris,
March 17, 1817, died there, July 23, 1881.
History and genre painter, pupil of Delaroche,
studied for several years in Italy
after the old masters, to the detriment of
his originality, and returned to Paris about
1847. Decorated St. Gervais, the Louvre,
Palais de Justice, Hôtel Pereire. Medals:
3d class, 1846, 1855; 2d class, 1849; L. of
Honour, 1855. Works: The Willis and
Sylphids (1844); Boccaccio commenting
upon Dante (1845); The Horæ and Nereids
(1846); St. Catherine buried by Angels,
After Death (1847); Isle of Cythera, Aulic
Scene (1848); Young Christian Girl converting
her Lover (1849); Human Sacrifice
by the Druids (1850), Nîmes Museum; Venetian
Fantasy (1850); Tiberius on Isle of
Capri (1852), Marseilles Museum; Autumn
Evening (1853); Florentine Sunday in 15th
Century (1855), formerly in Luxembourg
Museum; Burial of Young Venetian Lady
(1859); St. Catherine of Alexandria (1863);
Nymphs at the Grave of Adonis (1864); Tiberius
at Capri, Marseilles Museum; Man