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and in the Munich Gallery; returned to Copenhagen in 1842; became member of the Academy in 1852, and professor in 1858. Works: Coppersmith reading Letter to his Wife (1841); Poulterer (1842), New Pinakothek, Munich; Grandmother teaching her Grandson to Pray (1842), Schwerin Gallery; Zealand Fisherman Family (1857), Sailors in a Tavern (1861), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Scene from Danish Sailor-Life (1848), Coppersmith in his Workshop (1859), Copenhagen Gallery.—Weilbach, 614.


SCHLESINGER, ADAM, born at Ebertsheim, Bavaria, in 1759, died in 1829. Still-life painter. Works: Currant Bush with Bird's Nest, Strawberry Plant with Snail, etc. (1820), National Gallery, Berlin.


SCHLESINGER, FELIX, born in Hamburg, Oct. 9, 1833. Genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy and of Jordan; lived for several years in Paris, and settled in Munich. Works: Peasants in Holstein preparing to go to Church (1854), Hamburg Gallery; Saved from Shipwreck; Post Office; Children at the Well (1864); Young Couple's Visit to Parents (1866); At the Jeweller's; In Danger, Out of Danger (1883).—Müller, 468.


SCHLESINGER, HENRI GUILLAUME, born in Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1814. Genre painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy, but went early to Paris, where he was naturalized and has since lived. Popular painter of light subjects. Medals: 3d class, 1840; 2d class, 1847; L. of Honour, 1866. Works: Seductions of Life, Walk to Church (1840); Spanish Guerillas, Margaret and the Tempter (1842); If Youth only Knew (1843); Harem Favourites, The Meal (1844); One of Rousseau's Days, Blind Man's Buff (1845); Bridge of Love (1846); Little Marguerite, A Harem, A Romance (1847); Voltaire's First Love (1848); Love's Confidences (1850); Improvising (1851); A Likeness Guaranteed (1853); Happiness in the Mountains, Hunting Butterflies, The Betrothed (1855); When the Masters are away (1857); Last Sitting of Charlotte Corday to the Artist Houer (1859); Foot-Bath, Temptation, The Reception (1860); Festival of the Madonna (1864); Five Senses (1865); Carmela, Reading (1866); Christmas Eve, Dead Bird (1867); Maria del Marco, Alone in the Studio (1868); Good Friends (1869); Taking Pains for Nothing (1872); Miss Mischievous (1873); Brother and Sister (1874); The Dove-cot, Jane (1875); Like Grandmother (1877); Broken Pot, Mistress's Bonnet (1879); Double Arrest (1880); Love in Old Times and Nowadays (1882); Modern Venus, Bohémienne (1884); Young Girl of Morocco (1885); The Favourite (1886).—Claretie, Peintres, 110; Larousse; Müller, 468.


SCHLESINGER, KARL, born at Lausanne in 1826. Genre and landscape painter, pupil in Hamburg of Hermann Kauffmann, in 1844 of Prague Academy under Ruben, and in 1850 of Antwerp Academy under Dyckmans; settled in Düsseldorf in 1852. Works: Emigrants going Aboard (1851), Wandering Musicians (1859), Evening on the Moselle (1863), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Moonlight with Priest carrying Viaticum, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Memento Mori (1880).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 786; Müller, 468.


SCHLICHTEN, JAN PHILIPS VAN DER, flourished about 1720, died in Mannheim in 1745. Dutch school; history and genre painter, pupil of Adriaan van der Werff; painted for the Elector Charles Philip of the Palatinate. Works: St. Andrew with the Cross (1732); Village Musician (1731), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Tyrolese Peasant (1730), do. Woman, Lute-Player, Schleissheim Gallery.


SCHLOEPKE, THEODOR, born at Schwerin, March 6, 1812, died there, Jan. 13, 1878. Portrait, genre, battle, and animal painter, pupil of Berlin Academy, whence he returned to Schwerin in 1840; studied in Paris under Horace Vernet in 1847-48, and again in 1855-57; accompanied the Mecklenburg troops during the campaign in Schleswig-Holstein, and was made court painter in 1853. During his