GODFREY, W. F. Label on the portrait of a woman painted on convex glass in possession of the author. The face is black, the dress white, gold earrings and a tortoiseshell comb in her hair. “W. F. Godfrey announces to the nobility and gentry of this town and its vicinity, that he executes likenesses in profile shadow in a style particularly striking and elegant, whereby the most forcible animation is reduced to the miniature size for setting in rings, lockets, bracelets, etc. W. F. G. having a successful practice for the last seven years, and the honour of taking the principal families in Somerset, Cornwall, and North Devon to their fullest and entire satisfaction; and one trial only is required to ensure confidence and recommendation. Likenesses, beautified and enamelled on flat and convex glass, in bronze on paper or glass. Likenesses taken in colour. Ladies and gentlemen waited on at their own houses in town or country.” [Illustration: SILHOUETTE PORTRAIT OF A LADY On Plaster] GOËTHE (1749-1832). German poet. Cut the silhouette of Fritz von Stein and others, now in the Goëthe Museum at Weimar. GONARD (1784), Paris. At the Palais Royale cut paper and painted; used elaborate printed mounts. His address in 1788 was Palais Royale, under arch No. 167, at the side of Rue des Bons Enfants. Here his studio was so frequented that a special lantern, decorated with silhouettes, was used at night, that carriages and chairs might draw up for the convenience of his aristocratic sitters. XXII. GRAFF, A. Born 1736, died 1813. Portrait profilist, German. GRAFF. Described as “Portraitist.” GRAPE (1793), Göttingen. Signature on silhouette portraits in the fifth volume of _Annalen der theologischen Literatur in Kirchengeschichte_ (see Bibliography). GRASSMEYER. Signature on cut silhouette in engraved mount. HAINES, E. Worked on the Chain Pier, Brighton, 1850. Label on a man’s full-length portrait from the collection of Mr. Montague J. Guest, now belonging to the author: “Profilist and Scissorgraphist, patronised by the Royal Family, most respectfully informs the nobility and gentry, and visitors of Brighton, that he continues to execute the peculiar art of cutting profile likenesses in one minute with the aid of scissors only, so as to equal any yet produced by the most accurate machine. Terms: Full-length portrait, 2s. 6d.; ditto bronzed, or two of one person, 4s.; bust, 1s., or two of one person, 1s. 6d. Portraits of many interesting living characters may be seen at the first left-hand tower on the Chain Pier. Families attended at their own residences without additional charge. Proprietor of original weighing machine.” Bishop, writing of the Brighton Chain Pier in 1897, writes of the old tower keeper, Mr. Haynes, a skilful silhouette cutter, “was very deaf, and his invariable reply to any question was ‘1s. 6d. head and shoulders; 2s. 6d. full length.’” XXXI.