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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