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- weidhof (with figures by Defregger); Valley
of Vajolet, Covered Post (1871).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 803; Wurzbach, xxxiii. 311.
SÉGÉ, ALEXANDRE, born in Paris in
1817, died there, November, 1885. Landscape
painter, pupil of Flers and Léon Cogniet.
Painted large pictures, well-coloured,
and in a simple, attractive style. Medals:
1869; 2d class, 1873; 3d class, 1878; L. of
Honour, 1874. Works: Bridge of Renan,
Rocks of Piegut (1868); Brook at Pehouet,
River Beauce (1869); Oaks of Kertrégonnec
(1870); Farm at Keroual, Morning in the
Alps (1874), Mme. E. Perrin; Evening on
the Beauce (1875); Thorn Broom in Blossom
(1876), Luxembourg Museum; Green
Road (1878), M. Hédé; Valley of Courtray
(1879); Fields at Coubron (1880); Pine
Tree of Antoigny (1881); Chestnut Trees of
Beauvoir (1882); Valley of Ploukermeur
(1883); En Pays chartrin (1884); Meadows
of Saint-Pair, Valley of La Sée (1885); Environs
of Granville (1886).—Claretie, Peintres,
387.
SEGERS (Seghers), HERCULES, died
in Amsterdam about 1650. Dutch school;
landscape painter, settled in The Hague
about 1633, afterwards in Amsterdam, having
for some time travelled in the Alps and
in Norway; friend of Rembrandt. Works:
Dutch Landscapes (2), Berlin Museum.—Journal
des B. Arts (1871), 178; Kramm, v.
1510; Meyer, Gemälde köngl. Mus., 428.
SEGHERS (Segers, Zeghers), DANIEL,
born in Antwerp, Dec. 5, 1590, died there,
Nov. 2, 1661. Flemish school; flower painter,
pupil of Jan Brueghel in 1611 and master
of the guild in same year; entered the
Order of Jesuits in 1614, visited Rome,
painted much for the church of his Order in
Antwerp, and could hardly fulfil the numerous
commissions by princes who vied with
one another in securing works by his hand;
frequently painted flowers to enframe subjects
by such masters as Rubens, Schut, Diepenbeek,
and Erasmus Quellin. Works:
Garland about Portrait of Ignatius Loyola
(by Schut), do. about Madonna (by do.),
Flower-Piece, Antwerp Museum; Bouquet,
Brussels Museum; Garland about Statuette
of Madonna (1645), do. about Portrait of
William III., Hague Museum; do. around
Bust of Ceres (1644), Rotterdam Museum;
two Flower pieces (1643) and four Garlands
about Reliefs, Dresden Gallery; Garland
about Relief, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Garland
about Holy Family, do. about do. (by
Van Dyck), do. about Madonna, do. about
Holy Sacrament, Vienna Museum; do. about
Madonna, Bologna Museum; do. about Male
Bust, Uffizi, Florence; Garlands (4) about
pictures by Schut, Festoons (2), Madrid
Museum; Garland of Roses, do. about Madonna
(1651), Hampton Court Gallery;
Flowers and Landscape
(with Schut),
South Kensington
Museum; other specimens
in galleries of
Aschaffenburg Bamberg
(2), Brunswick
(2), Carlsruhe (1644),
Cassel, Copenhagen, Donaueschingen, Oldenburg
(3), Schleissheim (3); in Museums of
Berlin (2), and Weimar.—Ch. Blanc, École
flamande; Immerzeel, iii. 84; Kramm, v.
1508; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 346; Messager
des sciences, etc. (1868), 341; Michiels, ix.
194; Rooses (Reber), 427; Van den Branden,
1126.
SEGHERS, GEERAARD. See Zegers.
SEGNA, Sienese school, beginning of
14th century. Disciple of Duccio. Like
Ugolino, he remained faithful to the old
school, and the surfaces of his pictures
equal those of that master in softness and
lustre. A picture by him, Four Saints,
said to have been finished in 1305-6, is in
the Academy of Siena. Better examples
are: A Majesty in the Church of Castiglione
Fiorentino, near Arezzo; and Christ
on the Cross, National Gallery, London.—C.
& C., Italy, ii. 56; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., i.
320; ii. 165; W. & W., i. 433.
SEIBOLD, CHRISTIAN, born at Mentz
in 1697 or 1703, died in Vienna, May 19,