together with Sementi, in his great works in Ravenna, Naples, and Mantua. Some of his earlier pictures nearly approach the excellence of his master, but his facility of execution led him to abuse his talents, and his later works show the coldness of a mannerist. He had a well-attended school at Bologna. Many of his pictures are in Bologna, e.g., St. Francis receiving the Stigmata, Madonna, Christ praying to the East, Holy Family and Angels, St. Bonaventura, Madonna with Angels, in the Pinacoteca; Martyrdom of St. Catharine, in S. Caterina; Madonna and Saints, in S. M. della Carità; St. Francis at the Nunziata. Other works: St. Francis, Estense Gallery, Modena; Cupid, Madrid Museum; Madonna with Saints, Brera, Milan; Morpheus appearing to Halcyon, Vienna Museum; Magdalen, Dresden Museum; Diana and Actæon, Stuttgart Gallery; Infant Christ, Christ crowned with Thorns, Stockholm Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Burckhardt, 764; Gualandi, Guida, 117, 135; Malvasia, ii. 243; Lanzi, iii. 97.
GESSNER, SALOMON, born in Zürich,
April 1, 1730, died there, March 2, 1788.
German school. Well-known Swiss poet.
Landscape painter, self-taught; began to
paint in Berlin, where he was sent in 1749
to learn the book trade. Later in Hamburg,
and on his return home, he devoted himself
alternately to poetry and painting, and to
the latter art exclusively after 1765. Works:
Well in the Woods, Dreamer, Arcadian Well,
Fisherman, Zürich Gallery. His son, Konrad,
painted with some reputation in England
and Scotland. Works: Cavalry Skirmish
(2), View in Park (2), Driving up Hill,
Horses Grazing, Zürich Gallery.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., ix. 122; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 566.
GETTYSBURG, BATTLE OF, Peter F.
Rothermel, Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia; canvas, H. 19 ft. × 33 ft.
Painted in 1871 for State of Pennsylvania;
$25,000.—Art Journal (1872), 20.
GEYER, ALEXIUS, born in Berlin in
1826, died there, July 16, 1883. Landscape
painter, pupil of Berlin, Munich, and Dresden
Academies; studied then several years
in Rome and Paris, and travelled for ten
years through Italy, Greece, the East, and
the greater part of Germany, Switzerland,
Belgium, and Holland. Works: Ten pictures
for King Frederick William IV.; Series
for Archæological Museum in Rome; Cyclorama
of the Bosphorus; do. of the Nile;
Termini; Civita Lavigna; View in Volsker
Mountains; Palermo; Arabian Landscape.—Brockhaus,
viii. 7; Müller, 203.
GEYER, JOHANN, born at Augsburg,
Jan. 1, 1807, died there, Nov. 26, 1875.
Genre painter, pupil of Augsburg art-school
and of Munich Academy under Clemens
Zimmermann; visited France and Belgium,
and was from 1833 until 1865 professor at
the Polytechnic School in Augsburg. Treated
rococo genre scenes with exquisite humour,
and represented stuffs, especially satin, with
great skill. Works: Consilium Medicum,
End of Masked Ball, Physician feeling Lady's
Pulse, New Pinakothek, Munich; Concert
Rehearsal; Christening Feast, Menagerie
(1835), Leipsic Museum; Frightened Watchman;
Quarrelling Ministrants; Capuchin's
Sermon in Wallenstein's Camp; Council of
Augsburg receiving Louis the Bavarian
(1844), Town Hall, Augsburg; Painter and
Doorkeeper (1846); Fornarina in Raphael's
Studio; Reception of a Prince in Small
Town, Hanover Gallery; Charles V. in Titian's
Studio (1850); Betrothal (1852);
Anteroom of a Prince (1856); Opening of
Will (1857), Seizure of a Patrician (1863),
Bremen Gallery; Götz von Berlichingen
(1859), Erfurt Gallery; Duke of Alva at
Castle Rudolstadt, Prague Gallery.—Brockhaus,
viii. 7; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 193.
GEYLING, RUDOLF, born in Vienna in
1840. Genre painter, pupil of Vienna Academy
under Ruben and Wurzinger; spent
some time in Italy, and settled in Vienna.
Works: Homeward Journey with Siegfried's
Body (1868); Playing Amorettes; Florentine
Girl; Interior of Peasant's Yard; Interior
of Convent; Sacrilegists, Vienna
