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GREVEN on the Shores of Troy, for which he received nation of Esther, Sentence of Hainan, Palais a first-class medal, he spent several years in Ephrussi, ill. ; 1'oscidon's Wedding Proces- St. Petersburg, where lie painted many tint- sion. Demons of Storm, Guardian Spirits of tered portraits, and was made _ *~ the Sea, Baron Sina, Venice; Wedding of Member of the Academy. l* Jr* Aphrodite and Adonis, Villa Simon, Hict- In 1812 he went to Stock- ^VA |ptf /m ^ r . "ear Vienna ; Venus Urania, Genii of holm, then painted portraits I I ji Ji Truth and Fancy, Myth of Prometheus, Al- in England, and after his re- N-y* ^/ legorical Figures of Plastic Art (1S~S), turn to France in 1811! be- ^*S Augusteum, Oldenburg; Myth of Prome- caine popular as a lithographer. Medals: 2d theus, Academy of Science, Athens ; thirteen class, 1824 ; 1st class, 18I51 ; L. of Honour, pictures from Antique Mythology and His- 18152. Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. <!!I7. tory, House of Lords, Vienna. Brockhaus, GREVEN, ANTON, born in Cologne in viii. 117; Illustr. /eitg. (IS*;:,); Kunst- 1810, died there in 18!!8. Portrait and Chronik, i. iv. ; xx. 7. ">.",; Miiller. 217. genre painter, studied in Diisseldorf and GUIFFIER, JAX, born in Amsterdam in Munich. Works : Drinking Monks ; Coffee- 1 (!">(>, died in London in 1718. Dutch Drinkers; Knight and his Sweetheart; school ; landscape painter, pupil of Roeland Count Eberhard the Rauschebart, The To- Hogman, in whose atelier he became! ne- per (1H.'S4). (juainted with Rembrandt, Ruvsdael, Adriaan GREY, LADV JANE, EXECUTION OF, van de Velde, and Lingelbach. In 1(1(17 ho Paul ItfluriM-hi', H. V. Eaton, M. P., London; went to London, where he painted Italian canvas. Beheading of Lady Jane Grey in landscapes with ruins, ami views of tho the Tower of London, February 12, 15~>4. Thames. As the latter found great, favour, She is kneeling upon the scaffold beside lie bought a vessel in lli'.l."> and sailed about, the block, her eyes bandaged, her hands ex- between Windsor and Grnvesend in order tended, while a priest encircles her form to study coast, scenery. In 1 ('.'..") he sailed with his arm and whispers consolation ; at for Rotterdam, but was wrecked and !<>>( all right, the executioner, standing, holding his his property. Nevertheless, he bought a axe; at left, two women overwhelmed with new vessel and again cruised from place to grief. Painted in 1834. Bought at San Do- place to paint. In 17*7 he returned to nato sale (1868), 110,000 francs. Engraved England, where his pictures were greatly by P. Mercury. L 'Illustration (1870), i. 100. valued. Works: Ruins, View of Windsor GRIEF. See (Inji-Jf. Castle, Hampton Court Palace: Landscape, GRIEN or GRUN. See lial'tiniy. Fitxwilliam Museum, Cambridge ; View on GRIEPENKERL, CHRISTIAN, born at the Khine (2), Louvre, Paris ; do. Bordeaux Oldenburg, March 17, 18:ii). History and Museum ; River View, Amsterdam Museum ; portrait painter, pupil in Vienna of Itnlil ; a Landscapes (2), Stuttgart Gallery ; do. (2), masterly colourist, with a predominant fancy Augsburg Gallery ; do. (2), Brunswick Mu- for allegories ; executed decorations in the Vienna Opera House with Bitterlich after 7 Itahl's compositions, then in 1878 in the / & ) F* f~* I f- Augusteum at Oldenburg, afterwards in the j s~+f H Academy of Science nt Athens, nnd in the / new Houses of Parliament in Vienna. Pro- Jk' /~ n j ITTt T 171 Q fessor at Vienna Academy since 1875.1 (J . 17 AJ Vf 1 C,JV. Works : Gixlipus led by Antigone, Scenes from Anacreon, Baron Todesco, Vienna ; seum ; Winter Lnndscnpe near Leyden, with Myth of Oq)hcus, Opera House, ib. ; Coro- Skaters, Uotha Museum ; do. (15), Dresilen 175