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GUELDRY He was marine painter to the court under to Cento in 1G23, and in 1G42 established Louis Philippe and Napoleon III. Medals : himself in Bologna. His house in Cento, 2d class, 1824 ; 1st class, 1848, 1855; L. of Casa di Guercino, Honour, 1828; Ofiicer, 1841; Commander, contains many of his 1855. AVorks: Return of the Fishermen, works ; others are Burning of the Kent (1827) ; Rescue of the in the Church del Passengers of the Colomb, Frigate Siren in Ilosario. His statue a Gale, Explosion of the Emperor's Fort at by Galletti is in the Algiers, A'iew of Constantinople looking to- Piazza. Guercino . ward Pera, A'ieu- of Saleuelles at the Mouth painted at first in of the Orne, Schooner Hazard captured by the manner of the Boarding (1830 to 1840) ; On the Shore of Carracci, but after- the Channel, Evening on the Shore of the ' ward inclined to imitate Caravaggio, and a North Sea (187!)), Sunrise on the lie de few of his latest works approach the man- Bourbon, Sun rising over Vesuvius (1880) ; nor of Guido ; but he is very unequal, and Sixty Marines (1838-55), A'ersailles Muse- some of his pictures are crude and marked urn ; A'iew of Havre, Avignon Museum ; De- by an insipid mannerism. His masterpiece votion of Captain Desse, Bordeaux Museum ; is St. PetronUla raised from the Tomb, Cap- Others in Nantes, Perpignan, and Rodez itoline Gallery, Rome. AVorks : Investiture Museums ; Coast Scene, Brussels Museum ; of St. Guglielmo (1G20), St. John Evangelist, Fishermen on the Beach, Kunsthalle, Ham- Death of St. Peter Martyr, A'ision of St. burg ; A'iew on French Coast (182(5), I Jiruno in the Desert, Bologna Gallery ; St. Schwerin Gallery ; Coast of Brittany (1844), j Sebastian (2), Madonna della Rondinella, Smugglers on Coast of Biscay (1845), Na- Apollo and Marsyas, St. Peter raising Ta- tional Gallery, Berlin ; Coast Scene (1839), bitha, Moses, St. Peter, Susanna at the Storm at Sea (1843), Ravene Gallery, ib. ; Bath, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; Samian Sibyl Shipwreck on Coast of Genoa (1837), Agi- 1G51), Endymion, Uffizi, ib. ; Dying Clco- tated Sea (1839), Leipsie Museum ; Naval pntra, Death of Cato, Holy Family, Palazzo Battle in Time of Louis XIV. (1852), Dres- Brignoli-Sale, Genoa ; Mutius Sctcvola, Pa- den Gallery ; Agitated Sea with Vessels, lazzo Palavicini, ib. ; Andromeda, Death Kasle Museum. Art Journal (1880), 300; of Cleopatra, Palazzo Balbi, ib. ; Dismis- Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 70G ; Kunst- ' sal of Hayar, Brera, Milan ; May<lal<', Mar- Chronik, xv. 450 ; Illustr. Zeitg. (1880), i. 37. , riage of St. Catherine, Deposition, Naples GUELDRY, JOSEPH FERDINAND, Museum; Mater Dolorosa, Return of the Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Gerome; Prodigal, Palazzo Borghese, Rome ; Persian member of Inst. Medal, 3d class, 1885. AVorks: Sibyl, St. Petroitilla, Cleopatra and Octavius, Regatta at Joinvillc (1881); Arrival from. John Baptist, Capitol Gallery, ib. ; Au- Cruise (1882) ; Ferry-man at Bry-sur-Marne , rora, Fame with Force and Virtue, Palazzo (1883) ; On the Bluff (1884); Foundry (1885). I Ludovisi, ib. ; Christ at the Well, Ecce GUERCIXO, IL, born at Cento, Feb. 8, Homo, St. Jerome, Palazzo Corsini, ib. ; 1591, died in Bologna, Dec. 22, 1GGG. Bo- Death of Dido, Palazzo Spada, ib. ; In- logncse school. Real name Giovanni Fran- credulity of St. Thomas, St. Margaret of Cor- cesco Barbieri, but called Guercino because tona, Maydalen, Vatican, ib. ; Martyrdom he squinted. Son of a peasant and mostly of St. Peter, Mars, Venus and Cupid, Mo- self-taught, but studied the works of the dena Gallery ; Ecce Homo, St. Francis of Carracci ; afterward studied under Bene- [ Assisi, St Jerome, St. Elizabeth Queen of detto Gennari and later in Venice and Bo- Hungary, St. James, St. Frances, Return of logna. AVent to Rome in 1621, returned Prodigal, and others, Turin Gallery ; Ma- 184