[Genre Painting], name given to paintings embracing figures as they appear in ordinary life and in ordinary situations.
[Gens], the name among the Romans for what we understand by the word clan as consisting of families.
[Gens Braccata], the Gauls, from wearing braccæ or breeches.
[Gens Togata], the Roman, from wearing the [toga] (q. v.) as their distinguishing dress.
[Gen`seric], king of the Vandals, son of Godigiselus, founder of the Vandal kingdom in Spain, and bastard brother of Gunderic, whom he succeeded in A.D. 429; from Spain he crossed to Africa, and in conjunction with the Moors added to his kingdom the land lying W. of Carthage, ultimately gaining possession of Carthage itself; he next set himself to organise a naval force, with which he systematically from year to year pillaged Spain, Italy, Greece, and the opposite lands of Asia Minor, sacking Rome in 455; until his death in 477 he continued master of the seas, despite strenuous efforts of the Roman emperors to crush his power.
[Gentilly], a southern suburb of Paris, once a village beyond the fortifications.
[Gentle Shepherd], a famous pastoral by Allan Ramsay, with some happy descriptive scenes and a pleasant delineation of manners, published in 1723.
[Gentle Shepherd], a nickname George Grenville bore from a retort of the elder Pitt one day in Parliament.
[Gentlemen-at-arms], next to the yeomen of the guard the oldest corps in the British army, is the bodyguard of the sovereign; was formed by Henry VIII. in 1509; now consists of a captain, lieutenant, standard-bearer, adjutant, and 40 members, whose duties are limited to attendance at State ceremonies.
[Gentz, Friedrich von], German politician and author, born at Breslau; while in the Prussian civil service he warmly sympathised with the French Revolution, but his zeal was greatly modified by perusal of Burke's "Reflections," a treatise he subsequently translated, and in 1802 entered the Austrian public service; in the capacity of a political writer he bitterly opposed Napoleon, but for other purposes his pen and support were at the service of the highest bidder; he was secretary at the Congress of Vienna, and held a similar post in many of the subsequent congresses (1764-1832).