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SERF EMANCIPATION, Edward Armitage, London; canvas, H. 5 ft. 10 in. × 10 ft. An Anglo-Saxon noble on his death-bed, surrounded by his family and friends, at right, giving freedom to his slaves, who are grouped at left. In foreground a scribe writes down the names of the liberated. Royal Academy, 1877.
SERMON ON THE MOUNT, Claude Lorrain.
See Tabor, Mount.
SERRE (Serra), MICHEL GASPARD
JACQUES, born at Tarragona, Spain, Jan.
10, 1658, died at Marseilles, Oct. 9, 1733.
He fled from home when only eight years
old, went to Marseilles, was received into
the Chartreuse Convent and taught to paint;
in time he made his way to Rome, and after
hard study returned to Marseilles in 1676;
became a citizen in 1690, and a member of
the Academy in 1704. During the plague
at Marseilles in 1720 Serre performed invaluable
services and won the gratitude of
everybody. The Museum of Marseilles possesses
two large pictures by him illustrative
of the city during the plague, and many religious
paintings.—Chennevières, Artistes
provinciaux, ii. 201.
SERRES, DOMINIC, born at Auch, Gascony,
in 1722, died in London, Nov. 6, 1793.
Designed for the church, but ran away to
sea, and became master of a vessel which
was captured in 1752 by a British frigate.
Released on parole in England, he turned
his attention to art and became a successful
marine painter. He was one of the foundation
members of the Royal Academy (1768),
of which he was appointed librarian in 1792,
and was marine painter to George III.
Works: George III. reviewing the Fleet at
Portsmouth (4 pieces), and Sea-Piece (1789),
Hampton Court. His son, John Thomas
Serres (1759-1825), was also a marine
painter.—Redgrave; Law, Hist. Cat. Hampton
Court; Sandby, i. 104.
SERVIN, AMÉDÉE ÉLIE, born in
Paris; contemporary. Landscape and animal
painter, pupil of Drolling. Lives in
Villiers-sur-Morin. Medals: 1867, 1869;
2d class, 1872. Works: Picking Stones in
a Field (1867); Locksmith (1868); Frightened
Donkeys (1869); The Mill (1872),
Marseilles Museum; Chestnut Seller, Under
the Willows (1874); Making Sausages; My
Neighbour; Wine Taster; Crossing the
Brook, Cutting in the Woods of Penthièvre
(1879); Crotoy in the Evening, Little Baths
of St. Valéry (1880); Picardy (1881); A
Mill, Saltmakers and Salters (1882); Stable
in Villiers, High Tide at Crotoy (1883); Ma
cour, Chemin du bac (1884).
SESTO, CESARE DA. See Cesare da
Sesto.
SETTEGAST, JOSEF, born at Coblentz,
Feb. 8, 1813. History painter, pupil of
Düsseldorf Academy, and of Veit in Frankfort.
Visited Italy in 1838-43. Works:
Madonna and Child (1833); Finding of the
Cross, Church of the Cross, Ehrenbreitstein;
Crucifixion, St. Francis Church, Düsseldorf.
In fresco; subjects, Kastor Church,
Coblentz; Crucifixion, Max Church, Düsseldorf;
cupola of Mentz Cathedral after designs
by Veit (1861).—Art Journal (1865),
133; Nagler, xvi. 304; Müller, Düsseldorf.
K., 54.
SEUTER (Saiter, Syder), DANIEL, born
in Vienna in 1642, 1647, or 1649, died in
Rome or Turin in 1705, 1721, or 1725. Italian
school; history painter, pupil of Carlo
Loth in Venice and of Carlo Maratti in Rome.
Sometimes called Avouster or Cavaliere
Danielle. Works: Venus on Clouds, Augsburg
Gallery; Apollo and Daphne; Dædalus
and Icarus; Death of Abel; St. Jerome,
Brunswick Gallery.—Nagler, xviii. 64.
SEVEN SACRAMENTS. See Sacraments.
SEVEN WORKS OF MERCY. See
Mercy.
SEVERDONCK, JOSEPH VAN; contemporary.
History and genre painter, pupil
of Wappers. Excellences and defects in his
work, so that opinions differ concerning it.
Several medals. Leopold and Ernestine
House Orders. Works: 14 Stations, Church
of Notre Dame, Namur; Battle of Grave-