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campaigns of 1864, 1866, and 1870. Works: Defence of Castle in Thirty Years' War; Soldiers bearing their Wounded Commander, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Rest after Repulsed Storm (1856); Siege of Breisach (1862); Soldiers in Thirty Years' War distributing Booty, Leipsic Museum; Combat in the Woods at Sadowa; Beginning of Pursuit at Sadowa (1872), National Gallery, Berlin; Transportation of Prisoners of War (1882), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Prisoners at Sedan.—Jordan (1885), ii. 217; Müller, 488.
SELLENY, JOSEF, born at Meidling,
near Vienna,
Feb. 2, 1824,
died in Vienna,
May 22, 1875.
Landscape
painter, pupil of
Vienna Academy
under Ender
and Perger.
Visited Italy in
1854; made a
voyage round the world on the Novara in
1857-59; and accompanied Archduke Maximilian
to Brazil in 1859, bringing back
over a thousand sketches from these two
expeditions. President of Vienna Artists'
League in 1868. Became insane two years
before death. Member of Vienna Academy.
Orders: Iron Crown, Mexican Guadeloupe,
and Brazilian Rose. Works: Desolate
Church-Yard, Near Waidbruck in the Tyrol,
Vienna Museum; Snow Storm (1852);
Cape Circello (1855); Ruins of Amphitheatre
at Terracina (1855); Funchal in Madeira
(1863); Cape of Good Hope (1864); Island
of St. Paul (1869); Tahiti (1870); Rock Temple
of Mahamalaipur; Water-colours after
Rottmann's Munich Court Garden frescos;
and numerous other landscapes in oil and
water-colour.—Wurzbach, xxxiv. 58; Kunst-Chronik,
xi. 135, 156, 190, 206, 217; xix.
170; Zeitsch. f. b. K., iv. 114; xi. 252.
SELLIER, CHARLES AUGUSTE, born
at Nancy (Meurthe), Dec. 25, 1830, died
there, Nov. 26, 1882. History, genre, and
portrait painter, pupil of Louis Leborgne
and of Léon Cogniet. Won the grand prix
de Rome in 1857. Medals: 1865; 2d class,
1872. Conservator of the Nancy Museum.
Works: A Kitchen (1857), Nancy Museum;
Levite of Ephraim (1864), ib.; Magdalen
(1864), ib.; Death of Leander, Gallic Prisoner
condemned to die of Hunger (1865);
Last Years of Tiberius in Isle of Caprea, The
Ammazatoio at Rome (1867); Lost Soul
(1868); Italian Souvenir (1869), Nancy Museum;
Graziella (1870); Nereid (1872);
Christ at the Tomb (1875); Interior of a
Roman Ammazatoio, Leda (1880); Blacksmith's
Shop in Andelys (1881); Head of a
Negro (1882).—Bellier, ii. 491.
SELLSTEDT, LARS GUSTAF, born in
Sweden in 1819. Portrait painter, self-taught.
In 1842 settled in Buffalo, N. Y.
First exhibited at the National Academy in
1858; elected an A.N.A. in 1871 and N.A.
in 1875. One of the founders of the Buffalo
Academy, of which he was secretary and
superintendent in 1862-76, president in
1876, and again superintendent in 1878.
Works: Head of Jewish Rabbi (1859);
Abandoned; Quahaug Rock—Narragansett,
Preparing her Paper for the Club (1879).
Portraits: Of the Artist (1871, Academy,
Buffalo); W. G. Fargo (1874); George W.
Clinton, National Science Rooms, Buffalo;
Mrs. Sellstedt (1882); Benjamin Fitch
(1883); Brother and Sister—Portraits
(1884), Franklin Locke; Charles Day
(1885).
SEMENTI (Semenza), GIOVANNI GIACOMO,
born in Bologna, July 18, 1580,
died (?). Bolognese school; pupil of Calvart,
afterwards of Guido, and one of his favourite
assistants; went to Rome in service
of Cardinal Maurice of Savoy and painted
many pictures in manner of Guido. Among
his works are: Christ the Redeemer, St.