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Flight into Egypt; Alpine Carters; Dealer in Sacred Images; Mendicant Monks; Collection of Confessions; Judge of Morals (1873); Removal of the Protestants of the Zillerthal; Smugglers; Flutist and Peasant Woman; Festival of the Parson's Cook (1874); Betrothal (1879); Legendary Pictures, Villa Tschavoll near Feldkirch; His Lathered Reverence, Repairing the Damage (1882); Salvation (1883); Blind-Man's-Buff (1884); Forsaken (1885); In the Picture Gallery (1886). In fresco: Three Marys at Christ's Tomb (1859), Cemetery, Innsbruck.—Allgem. Kunst-Chronik, viii. 279, 377; ix. 244; Illustr. Zeitg. (1874), ii. 343; (1877), i. 10; (1883), i. 315; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 386; xviii. 649; xix. 352; xx. 279; xxii. 37; Kunst Alle, i. 103, 224; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xii. (Mittheilungen, v. 8); xix. 131.
SCHMIDT, HEINRICH, born at Saarbrück,
Rhenish Prussia, about 1740, died
in 1821. History painter, studied in Italy,
where he spent most of his life, chiefly at
Naples. His works show the influence of
Raphael Mengs and of the French school.
He was much employed by the Grand ducal
court of Darmstadt. Works: Artemisia by
the Ashes of her Husband (1785), View near
Ronciglione in the Campagna (1792), Adam
and Eve listening to the First Thunder, Diana
and Callisto, Daughter of Jairus, Darmstadt
Museum.
SCHMIDT, JOHANN HEINRICH, born
at Hildburghausen, Feb. 11, 1749, died in
Dresden, Oct. 28, 1829. Portrait painter,
son and pupil of Johann Thomas Schmidt,
Saxon court painter; travelled in Italy and
France; became court painter in Dresden
in 1775; visited Russia and different German
cities. Member of Dresden Academy
in 1795. Works: Assembly of Princes in
Pillnitz (1791); Princess Augusta of Saxony
(1783), Dresden Gallery; Pastel Portraits
of Napoleon, Suwaroff, Nelson, Archduke
Charles, and others.—Nagler, xv. 343.
SCHMIDT, KARL CHRISTIAN, born in
Stuttgart in 1808. History painter, pupil
in Stuttgart of J. G. von Müller, in Munich
of Cornelius, and in Paris of Ingres. Professor
at Stuttgart Art School. Works:
Annunciation to the Shepherds (1839);
Mary and St. John at Christ's Tomb (1844);
Judgment of Christ (1861), Stuttgart Museum;
Resurrection (1864).—Müller, 471.
SCHMIDT, MARTIN JOHANN, born at
Grafenwörth, Nether Austria, Sept. 25, 1718,
died at Krems, June 28, 1801. History
painter, first instructed by his father, a
sculptor, then studied after the great masters.
Several of his works may be seen at
the Vienna Academy, and in the Gallery at
Gratz.—Mayer, Der Maler M. J. Schmidt
(Vienna, 1879).
SCHMIDT, MAX, born in Berlin, Aug.
23, 1818. Landscape painter, pupil of Berlin
Academy and of Karl Begas, Karl Krüger,
and Wilhelm Schirmer. Travelled in
Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt in 1843-44;
visited the Ionian Islands in 1847, Rome in
1853, Italy and England in 1861 and 1870.
Became professor at Weimar Art School in
1868, and at Königsberg Academy in 1872.
Member of Berlin Academy. Gold medals,
Berlin, 1858, 1868; Medal, Vienna, 1873;
Orders of Crown, Red Eagle, and White
Falcon. Works: Schwarza Valley, Berlin
Art Union; Evening in Provence (1850);
Four Periods of the Day (1852); Seraglio
Gardens (1853); Moonlight on the Sea, and
Forest Scene (1860); View of Nice (1861);
Terracina (1863); Wood and Mountain
(1868), Spree in Sultry Weather (1877),
National Gallery, Berlin; Woodland Solitude
(1871), Approaching Storm on Amber
Coast—East Prussia (1878), Königsberg
Museum; Coast near Smyrna, Schack Gallery,
Munich; Swamp, Cologne Museum;
Tempest on the Sea, Rostock Museum;
Pastoral Scene, Dantzic Museum. In fresco:
Scenes in Egypt and Greece, New Museum,
Berlin.—Jordan (1885), ii. 203; Müller,
472; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 328.
SCHMIDT, WILLEM HENDRIK, born
at Rotterdam, April 12, 1819(?), died at Delft,
June 1, 1849. Genre, history, and portrait
painter, pupil of G. de Meyer. Travelled in