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GRANDI, ERCOLE DI GIULIO, born in
Ferrara about 1462, died there, July, 1531.
Lombard school. Called also Ercole da
Ferrara. Son of Giulio Cesare Grandi;
was in the service of the Duke of Ferrara in
1492-99. He was a disciple of Costa, or
rather of Francia as represented by Costa,
in his later period. Among his typical
works may be cited the Martyrdom of St.
Sebastian in S. Paolo, Ferrara, and the St.
George and the Dragon in the Corsini Gallery,
Rome;
Conversion of
St. Paul, National
Gallery,
London.—C. &
C., N. Italy, i.
531, 550; Cittadella,
Notizie di Ferrara, 422; Vasari, ed.
Mil., iii. 141; ed. Le Mon., iv. 247; Burckhardt,
582.
GRANDI, ERCOLE DI ROBERTO, died
in Ferrara before 1513. Lombard school.
Called also Ercole da Ferrara or Ferrarese.
Son of Roberto Grandi, and partner of his
brother as a painter and gold-beater in Ferrara
in 1479. Salaried by the Duke of Ferrara,
by whom he was frequently employed;
finished a view of Naples in 1490-93;
and painted in 1494 the likeness of Hercules
I. for Isabella of Mantua. Vasari, who confounds
him with Ercole the disciple of Costa,
ascribes to him the frescos in the Garganelli
Chapel of S. Pietro, now destroyed. His
Capture and Procession to Golgotha in the
Dresden Museum (the centre-piece, belonging
to these, a Pietà, is in the Royal Institution
at Liverpool) show that he was a
close follower of Mantegna rather than of
Costa. In similar style are: Christ on the
Mount, Ravenna Gallery; Crucified Saviour,
Museo Civico, Venice; and the Lucretia,
Modena Gallery.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 530;
Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iv. 247; ed. Mil., iii.
141; Cittadella, Notizie di Ferrara, 583;
Burckhardt, 582.
GRANDSIRE, EUGÈNE, born at Orléans,
March 18, 1825. Landscape painter,
pupil of J. Noël and Jules Dupré. Teacher
of drawing in the École des Arts et Métiers,
Paris. L. of Honour, 1874. Works: Pont
du Moulin (1865), Orléans Museum; The
Brook (1866), Nantes Museum; River
Meurthe (1874); Mill of Simoneau, Road to
Fountain of St. Guinolé (1877); View near
Gratain, Pasture in Sologne (1878); Valley
of Plainfaing (1879); Valley of Bains, River
Meurthe (1880); Port of Dieppe, Canal at
Tréport (1881), Luxembourg Museum; Valley
of the Bagnerot in November (1882);
The Campine at Antwerp, Dieppe (1883);
Kattendyk at Antwerp, Canal at Antwerp
(1884); Sunrise, Sunset—Antwerp (1885).—Bellier
de la Chavignerie, i. 687.
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GRANET, FRANÇOIS-MARIUS, born
in Aix, Provence,
Dec. 17, 1775,
died there, Nov.
21, 1849. Architecture
painter,
first instructed
by an unknown
Italian, then by
the landscape
painter Constantin,
and afterwards
by David in Paris. In 1802 he went
to Rome, where he spent the greater part of
his life and painted most of his pictures.
They were chiefly interiors of churches,
monasteries, etc., with historical scenes.
Returned to Paris in 1819, made custodian
of the paintings of the Louvre in 1826, and
member of the Institute in 1830. After
the revolution of 1848 he retired to Aix, and
bequeathed to his native city his fortune
and all his pictures to found a museum.
Medal, 1808; L. of Honour, 1819; Officer,
1833; Order of St. Michael, 1826. Works:
Interior of the Coliseum (1806), The Painter
Sodoma carried to the Hospital (1815), Interior
of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
(1823), Ransom of Prisoners in Algiers
(1831), Portrait of Himself, Louvre, Paris;
Funeral Honours to the Victims of Fieschi's
Infernal Machine (1839), Invalides, ib.;