Gallery; Soldiers crossing a River, Stockholm Museum; Rhine Views (2), Vienna Museum; Landscape, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. His younger son, Jan (died about 1750), was noted as a copyist of Claude Lorrain.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Immerzeel, i. 285; Kramm, ii. 604; Quellenschriften, xiv. 425.
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GRIFFIER, ROBERT, born in London,
Oct. 7, 1688, died there or in Amsterdam in
1750. Dutch school; son and pupil of Jan
Griffier, whom he often surpassed in painting
Rhine views, marines, and battle pieces. He
had an extraordinary talent for imitation, and
deceived even connoisseurs with his clever
copies after
Wouwerman,
Van
de Velde,
and Saft Leven.
Works:
Landscape, Amsterdam Museum; do.,
Darmstadt Museum; do., Schwerin Gallery;
do., Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Immerzeel,
i. 296.
GRIGOLETTI, MICHEL ANGIOLO,
born at Rorai-grande di Pordenone, Aug.
29, 1801, died in Venice, Feb. 10, 1870.
History painter, pupil of Venice Academy.
Visited Florence and Rome, and settled in
Venice, where in 1839 he became professor
at the Academy. His works, distinguished
for their fine colouring, recall the old Venetian
masters. Works: Jupiter caressing
Love (1825); Last Interview of the two
Foscari, Museum, Vienna; St. James and
St. Joseph, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Francesca
da Rimini; Odalisques at the Bath;
Jacob receiving Joseph; St. Paul preaching
at Ephesus; Prodigal Son; Madonna, St.
Anthony's, Trieste; Christ on Sea of Galilee,
Brescia Cathedral; Altarpieces for Cathedrals
of Erlau and Arad, and Assumption
(1846) for Cathedral of Gran, Hungary.—Wurzbach,
v. 336.
GRIJFF. See Gryeff.
GRIMALDI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO,
born at Bologna in 1606, died in Rome in
1680. Bolognese school. Called sometimes
Il Bolognese. Pupil of the Carracci; became
one of the leading landscape painters
of his day. Employed many years in Rome
by different popes, and in Paris by Cardinal
Mazarin and Louis XIV. Works: Scenes
from Old Testament, Quirinal, Rome; Series
of Landscapes, Palazzo Borghese, ib.; Landscapes
with Figures (2), Washerwomen,
Louvre, Paris; Landscapes, Bibliothèque
nationale, ib.; do., National Gallery, Edinburgh;
Baptism of Christ, Darmstadt Museum.—Lanzi,
iii. 132; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise;
Burckhardt, 764, 808.
GRIMANI, ANTONIO, Doge, portrait,
Titian, Palazzo Giustiniani, Padua; canvas,
H. 3 ft. 10 in. × 3 ft. 3 in. Painted in 1521;
in Titian's house till his death; sold in 1581
by Pomponio Vecelli to Cristoforo Barberigo,
and inherited by Count Giustiniani.
Another, painted same time, in possession
of Mr. De Rosenberg, Vienna; and a third,
also same date, in Morosini-Gattersburg
Collection, Vienna.—C. & C., Titian, i. 243.
GRIMANI, DOGE, KNEELING BEFORE
FAITH. See Fede.
GRIMER, ABEL, born at Antwerp about
1575, died there before 1619. Flemish
school; history and landscape painter, son
and pupil of Jacob Grimer; master of the
guild in 1592. Works: Christ bearing the
Cross (1593); Skaters under the Bridge of
Sint Jorispoort—Antwerp (1604), Th. van
Lerius, Antwerp; Christ with Martha and
Mary (1614), Brussels Museum.—Van den
Branden, 300.
GRIMER, JACOB, born at Antwerp about
1526, died there before May, 1590. Flemish
school; landscape painter, pupil of Gabriel
Bouwens, Matthys Cock, and Christiaan
van den Queeckborne; master of the guild
in 1547. One of the best landscape painters
of his time. Works: View of the Kiel at
Antwerp (1575), City Hall, Antwerp; Village
Kirmess (1586), Th. van Lerius, ib.; Legend
of St. Eustace, Brussels Museum; Christ
and the Adulteress, Ghent Museum.—Rooses
(Reber), 116; Van den Branden, 297.
