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Germany in 1840; became professor at Delft Academy in 1842. Works: Portrait Group of Young Ladies, Wealth and Poverty, Marriage Contract (1838); Monk comforting Sick Woman (1839); Children's School, Confession (1840); Last Moments of a Monk (1842); Monks in Meditation, Emilie of Nassau, daughter of William the Silent, Rotterdam Museum; Charles V. receiving the Extreme Unction, Ravené Gallery, Berlin; De Profundis (1845), Cologne Museum; Dutch School Room, New Pinakothek, Munich.—Immerzeel, iii. 70; Kramm, v. 1480.
SCHMITSON, TEUTWART, born in Frankfort, April 18, 1830, died in Vienna, Sept. 2, 1863. Animal painter, self-taught; went about 1850 to Düsseldorf, in 1856 to Carlsruhe, in 1857 to Berlin, visited Italy in 1860-61, and settled in Vienna. Painted especially horses. Gold medal, Brussels, 1861. Works: Tartar Horses in Snow Storm (1863), Gsell Gallery, Vienna; Thirsty Cattle, ib.; Transportation of Hungarian Mares, Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Shying Oxen (1864); Roman Cattle-Drivers (1868?); Hungarian Horses shying before Upset Vehicle, Carlsruhe Gallery; Tartar Horses shying before Dead Horse.—Wurzbach, xxx. 327; Zeitschr. f. b. K., ix. (Mittheilungen, ii. 23).
SCHMITZ, ADOLF, born in Cologne;
contemporary. History painter, pupil of
Städel Institute, Frankfort; formed himself
after French and Belgian masters. Works:
Christ and Judas, The Widow's Mite (1854);
Emperor Henry III. challenging Henry I. of
Lorraine; Bishop John of Speier protecting
the Jews; Emperor Max on the Martin
Wall. In fresco: Entry of Princess Isabella
into Cologne in 1235, Legend of Marsilius,
St. John's Festival in Cologne (after Petrarch),
Gürzenich Saal, Cologne; Dance of
Elves in Titania's Dream, Pringsheim Mansion,
Berlin.—Müller, 472.
SCHNEIDER, HERMANN, born in Munich,
June 16, 1846. History painter, pupil
of Munich Academy, and in 1864-67 of Piloty;
lived for several years in Italy, greatly
influenced by his sojourn in Rome. Works:
Last Moments of Mother of Louis XIV.
(1867); Nymph and Satyr, Charles V. at
Valladolid (1869); Venetian Banquet (1870);
Audience in the Munich Grottenhof (1871);
Van Dyck painting Children of Charles I.
(1876); Duel on the Sea (1877); Venus and
Cupids (1878), Leipsic Museum; Journey
of Charles V. to San Yuste; Unlike Spouses
(1881); Sick Actress (1882); Cycle of Bacchus
(1883), Banquet Hall in the Drachenburg
near Königswinter on the Rhine.—Müller,
473; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 59, 307;
xix. 183; xx. 704; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 105.
SCHNEIDER, JOHANN KASPAR, born
at Mentz in 1754, died there in 1839. Landscape
and portrait painter, pupil of Franz
Josef Heideloff (1676-1772), but mostly
self-taught by careful study of nature;
worked in Mannheim, Erfurt, and Mentz;
also painted altarpieces. Works: Wood
Landscape by Moonlight, Darmstadt Museum;
Old Castle on a Rock on the Rhine,
New Pinakothek, Munich; Night Scene in
the Woods (1786), Oldenburg Gallery. His
brother Georg was also a good landscape
painter.—N. Necrol. der D. (1839).
SCHNETZ, JEAN VICTOR, born in Versailles,
May 15, 1788, died in Paris, March
15, 1870. History and genre painter, pupil
of David, later of Regnault, Gros, and Gérard.
Early abandoned the classical school,
and going to Italy after 1824 painted scenes
from the life of the people with much success.
Member of Institute, 1837; appointed
director of the French Academy in Rome
in 1840; lived in Paris in 1847-52; again
director in Rome in 1852-66; L. of Honour,
1825; Officer, 1843; Commander, 1866;
Knight of the Papal Order of St. Gregory
in 1847. Works: Good Samaritan, Jere-