Part 22 (1/2)

G.o.dEWYCK, MARGARETTA. Born at Dort, 1627. A pupil of the celebrated painter, Nicholas Maas. She excelled as a painter of flowers, and was proficient in both ancient and modern languages. She was called by authors of her time, ”the lovely flower of Art and Literature of the Merwestrom,” which is a poetical way of saying Dordrecht!

GOLAY, MARY--MME. SPEICH GOLAY. Silver medal at Geneva Exposition, 1896; eighteen medals and rewards gained in the Art Schools of Geneva, and the highest recompense for excellence in composition and decoration.

Member of the Amis des Beaux-Arts, Geneva; Societe vaudoise des Beaux Arts, Lausanne. Born in Geneva and studied there under Mittey for flower painting, composition, and ceramic decoration; under Gillet for figure painting.

Mme. Golay has executed a variety of pictures both in oil and water-colors. In an exhibition at the Athenee in Geneva, in the autumn of 1902, she exhibited two pictures of sleep, which afforded an almost startling contrast. They were called ”Sweet Sleep” and the ”Eternal Sleep.” The first was a picture of a beautiful young woman, nude, and sleeping in the midst of roses, while angels watching her inspire rosy dreams of life and love. The roses are of all possible shades, rendered with wonderful freshness--scarlet roses, golden roses--and in such ma.s.ses and so scattered about the nude figure as to give it a character of purity and modesty. The flesh tints are warm, the figure is supple in effect, and the whole is a happy picturing of the sleep and dream of a lovely young woman who has thrown herself down in the carelessness of solitude.

It required an effort of will to turn to the second picture. Here lies another young woman, in her white shroud, surrounded with lilies as white as her face, on which pain has left its traces. In the artistic speech of the present day, it is a symphony in white. The figure is as rigid as the other is supple; it is frightfully immovable--and yet the drawing is not exaggerated in its firmness. Certainly these contrasting pictures witness to the skill of the artist. Without doubt the last is by far the most difficult, but Mme. Golay has known how to conquer its obstacles.

A third picture by this artist in the exhibition is called the ”Abundance of Spring.” Mme. Golay's reputation as a flower painter has been so long established that one need not dwell on the excellence of the work. A writer in the Geneva _Tribune_ exclaims: ”One has never seen more brilliant peonies, more vigorous or finer branches of lilacs, or iris more delicate and distinguished. How they breathe--how they live--how they smile--these ephemeral blossoms!”

GONZALEZ, INeS. Member of the Academy San Carlos of Valencia. In the expositions of 1845 and 1846 in that city she was represented by several miniatures, one of which, ”Dido,” was much admired. Another--the portrait of the Baron of Santa Barbara--was acquired by the Economic Society of Valencia. In the Provincial Museum is her picture of the ”Two Smokers.”

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GRANT, MARY R. This sculptor studied in Paris and Florence, as well as in London, where she was a pupil of J. H. Foley, R.A. She has exhibited at the Royal Academy since 1870. She has executed portraits of Queen Victoria, Georgina, Lady Dudley, the Duke of Argyll, Mr. C.

Parnell, M.P., and Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A.

Her memorial work includes a relief of Dean Stanley, Royal Chapel, Windsor; and a relief of Mr. Fawcett, M.P., on the Thames Embankment. The late Queen gave Miss Grant several commissions. In Winchester Cathedral is a screen, on the exterior of Lichfield Cathedral a number of figures, and in the Cathedral of Edinburgh a reredos, all the work of this artist.

At the Royal Academy, 1903, she exhibited a medallion portrait in bronze.

GRATZ, MARIE. Born at Karlsruhe, 1839. This portrait painter was a pupil of Bergmann, and later of Schick and Canon. Among her best-known portraits are those of Prince and Princess Lippe-Detmold, Princess Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Prince Wittgenstein, the hereditary Princess Reuss, and Princess Biron von Kurland.

GRAY, SOPHIE DE b.u.t.tS. First honor, Maryland Inst.i.tute; second honor, World's Fair, New Orleans; gold medal, Autumn Exhibition, Louisville, 1898; first and second premiums, Nelson County Fair, 1898.

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GREATOREX, ELIZA. In 1869 Mrs. Greatorex was elected a.s.sociate member of the National Academy, New York, and was the first woman member of the Artists' Fund Society of New York. Born in Ireland. 1820-1897.

Studied under Witherspoon and James and William Hart in New York; under Lambinet in Paris; and at the Pinakothek in Munich. Mrs. Greatorex visited England, Paris, Italy, and Germany, spending a summer in Nuremberg and one in Ober-Ammergau.

Among her most important works are ”Bloomingdale,” which was purchased by Mr. Robert Hoe; ”Chateau of Madame Cliffe,” the property of d.y.k.eman van Doren; ”Landscape, Amsterdam”; pictures of ”Bloomingdale Church,” ”St.

Paul's Church,” and the ”North Dutch Church,” all painted on panels taken from these churches.

Mrs. Greatorex ill.u.s.trated the ”Homes of Ober-Ammergau” with etchings, published in Munich in 1871; also ”Summer Etchings in Colorado,”