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GRAFLE great reputation ; in 1700 was railed to Dresden as court-painter and professor at the Academy. There he developed an ex- traordinary activity, painted temporarily also in Berlin and Leip.sie, besides making excursions into Southern Germany and Switzerland. According to his own state- ment, he painted, in 1700-71!, 1143 portraits and family groups, besides copying old mas- ters for the Russian court and for his own improvement. "Vorks : Portrait of Frederic Augustus of Saxony, do. ()i) of himself, of (iellert, and six others, Dresden Gallery; do. of the Actor KckhoiV (1771), Gotha Mu- seum ; do. of the Painter /ingg, Saint Gall Museum ; seven portraits, Leipsic Museum ; six do., Weimar Museum ; two do., /iirich Gallery ; two do., National Gallery, Berlin ; two do., Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Prince Friedrich Albrccht of Anhalt, Brunswick Museum ; portraits of himself in Old Pina- kothek, Munich, and Christiania Museum ; do. of Lessing, Herder, Schiller, Moses Mendelssohn, Weisse, Rainier, Sul/.er (Berne Museum), Hagedorn, Tiedge, Gluck, C'hodo- wiecky, King Frederic William II. His son, Karl Anton (born in Dresden, March 10, 1774, died there, March 1), 18:52), was an able landscape painter, pupil of /ingg in Dresden. Allgem.d. Biogr.,i.x. 505 ; Brock - haus, viii. 20!) ; Muther, Ant. Graff, sein Leben, etc. (Leipsic, 1881). GRAFLE, ALBERT, born at Freiburg, Baden, May 2, 1801). History and portrait painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Cornelius and Sehnorr ; and in Paris in 1840 under Wiuterhaltcr ; returned to Munich, went in 1848 to Alsace, where he painted portraits, then to England, again to Paris, and settled in Munich in 1852. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1840. Works : Madonna, Triumphal Procession of Arminius, Carls- ruhe Gallery ; altarpieces in Lrihr and Dun- denheim, Baden ; Four Seasons, Royal Pal- ace, Carlsruho ; Procession in Dachau ; Intimate Friends at Beethoven's ; Dance of Elves ; Woman with a Hose, Provin/ial Mu- seuui, Hanover ; portraits of Queen Victoria and Family, Princess of Wales, Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia, Grand Duch- ess Louise of Baden, Emperor Maximilian and Empress of Mexico. Miiller, 210. GRAHAM, JOHN, born in Scotland in 1754, died at Edinburgh in 1817. History painter, first apprenticed to a coach painter in Edinburgh, then in London pupil at the Royal Academy, where he exhibited from 1780 to 17117. Appointed in 17HS master of Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh, where he had among his pupils Wilkie, Allan, Burnett, and Gordon. Works: Daniel in Lions' Den (17SII); TIKI (17<s:!|; Ceres in Search of Proserpine (1780); Escape, of Marv Stuart from Lochleven (1788), Portrait of an Alderman, Stationers' Hall, London ; Marv Stuart before Execution il7'.l^|: David in- structing Solomon (17H7); The Disobedient Prophet, National Gallcrv, Edinburgh. GRAHAM, MARY, 'port rait, Thomas (iiiiii.ilxirniii/li, National Gallerv, Edinburgh ; canvas. The Honourable Mrs. ( iraham, wife of Thomas Graham, of Balgowan, afterwards Lord Lynedoch ; full length, standing. Painted in 177S ; after death of Lord Lyne- doch (184;i), came into possession of Itohert Graham of Rcdgorton, who be<|iieathed it, in 185!) to National Gallery. Study for the tched by Waltner ; >. -Brock-Arnold, Portfolio (188(1), head in same Gallery. 1 ('. ( ). Murray in Portfol Biog. Great Artists, 50 2 ; Athena-urn, Aug., 1S( GRAHAM, PETER, born in Edinburgh in 1830. Landscape painter, pu p i 1 of School of Design, Edinburgh ; removed to London in 1800 ; elected an A.R.S.A. in 18(i(), but resigned in 1877, when he was made an honourable membe r ; A.R.A. in 1877, R.A. in 1882. Paints chiefly Highland scenes with cattle, and rocky shores. Works : Spate in the Highlands (1800), Hermou sale, 1882, 787 ; 105