then through the hands of the Woodburns to Sir Thomas Lawrence; thence to Lord Ward, afterwards Earl Dudley; sold (1885) to Duc d'Aumale for £25,000. Sketch of two Graces in Venice Academy. Engraved by F. Foster; J. K. Sherwin.—C. & C., Raphael, i. 207; Gruyer, Raphael et l'Antiquité, i. 229; Müntz, 90, 220; Passavant, ii. 50; Perkins, 63; Lübke, Raphael, 19, 135.
GRACHT, JACOB VAN DER, born at
The Hague in 1593, died in 1647. Flemish
school; pupil of Raphael van Coxcyen.
Principally known through a meritorious
work on anatomy for artists, published at
The Hague in 1634, but must also have been
a good painter, to judge from an excellent
portrait by him in the Weimar Museum.
Spent most of his life in Italy.—Kramm, ii.
598.
GRAEB, KARL (GEORG ANTON), born
in Berlin, March 18, 1816, died there, April
8, 1884. Architecture and landscape painter,
pupil of Gerst and of Berlin Academy;
visited Switzerland, Southern France, and
Paris, and in 1843 Italy and Sicily. Was
made court-painter in 1851, professor in
1855, and member of the Berlin Academy
in 1860. Great gold medal in 1854; member
of Amsterdam and Vienna Academies.
Works: View of Palermo (1848); Cross-Way
in Ratisbon Cathedral (1850); Interior
of Halberstadt Cathedral (1854), Italian
Landscape (1855), Cross-Way in a Monastery,
Fontana Medina in Naples, Ravené
Gallery, Berlin; Strand of Amalfi, Mausoleum
of Charlottenburg (1855); City, Castle,
and Park of Muskau, Stolzenfels; Graves of
Mansfeld Family in Eisleben (1860), View
in Halberstadt Cathedral (1860), Thuringian
Mill, National Gallery, Berlin; Old
City Hall in Berlin (1867); Choir of St.
George's in Tübingen (1869); Interior of
Synagogue in Prague; two views of ancient
Athens and of Olympia, Berlin Museum.—Allgem.
Kunst-Chronik, ix. 114; Brockhaus,
viii. 254; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule,
348; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 445, 462;
xx. 181.
GRAEB, PAUL, born in Berlin in 1842.
Architecture painter, son and pupil of Karl
Graeb; travelled in Germany, Switzerland,
and North Italy. Works: Vestibule of St.
George's, Tübingen (1869), Raczynski Gallery,
Berlin; S. Fosca at Torcello near Venice.—Müller,
215.
GRAEF, GUSTAV, born at Königsberg,
Dec. 14, 1821. History and portrait painter,
pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Th.
Hildebrandt and W. Schadow; was in Italy
in 1846-50, acquired a simpler and grander
style, and settled in Berlin in 1852; visited
Munich and Paris in 1853, Vienna and North
Italy in 1872, London and Scotland in 1873,
and Italy in 1874-75. Since 1862 has devoted
himself more especially to portrait
painting. Member of and professor at Berlin
Academy. Works: The Niebelungen
Lay (1846); Jephthah and his Daughter;
Charlemagne and Wittekind; four scenes
from Myth of Hercules and Theseus; Departure
of Prussian Landwehr (1860);
Voluntary gifts in 1813 (1861), National
Gallery, Berlin; Farewell of Lithuanian
Landwehrman, Solon, Phidias and Demosthenes
(1868-70), Königsberg University.—Illustr.
Zeitg. (1880), ii. 345; Müller, 215;
Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 137; Leixner,
Mod. K., i. 23; ii. 44; D. Rundschau,
ix. 470; Zeitsch., xv. 47.
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GRAFF, ANTON, born at Winterthur,
Switzerland, Dec. 20,
1736, died in Dresden,
June 22, 1813.
German school; portrait
painter, pupil of
Johann Ulrich Schellenberg;
went about
1756 to Augsburg,
whence, being hampered
by the guild in
the free exercise of his art, he proceeded
to Ansbach, where he aided the court-painter
Schneider in his portraits of famous
personages, and studied industriously
after Rigaud and Kupeczky. In 1759 he
returned to Augsburg, and soon acquired
