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- lingen (1855); Defence of Tournay in 1581;
Visitation of Mary (1862); Ballot among the Gypsies; Battle of Vucht, Palace of Justice, Ghent; Cavalry Attack.—Müller, 488.
SEVILLA ROMERO Y ESCALANTE,
JUAN DE, born in Granada in 1627, died
there, Aug. 23, 1695. Spanish school; pupil
of Pedro de Moya, from whom he
learned the style of Van Dyck. Painted
chiefly religious compositions, and had considerable
local reputation. Work: Dead
Christ and Saints, Dresden Gallery.—Cean
Bermudez; Stirling, iii. 1134; Ch. Blanc,
École espagnole.
SEYBOLD, GEORG VON, born at Schrobenhausen,
Bavaria, March 20, 1832. Genre
painter, pupil of Munich Academy under
Kaulbach, and of Couture in Paris. Works:
Vedette in the Russian Campaign (1859);
Prisoners escorted by Cossacks (1860); Soldier
of 17th Century; Hunter of 16th Century.
In fresco: a picture in National Museum,
Munich.—Müller, 489.
SHADOW OF DEATH, William Holman
Hunt, Manchester Art Gallery; canvas.
Christ, as the carpenter, engaged in Joseph's
workshop, is standing upright, at the close
of the day's labour, wearily stretching out
his arms, which form the shadow of the
cross on the wall behind him—a prevision
of the Crucifixion; on the ground, at his
feet, Mary, kneeling before a coffer in which
are the gifts of the kings, is gazing intently
on the ominous shadow. Finished in 1873,
after three years' labour. Engraved by F.
Stacpoole. Art Journal (1874), 15; Athenæum,
Jan., 1873, 23; Nov. 1873, 702.
SHAKESPEARE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES,
John Faed, Corcoran Gallery,
Washington; canvas, H. 4 ft. 5 in. × 5 ft. 7
in. Group of statesmen and authors of the
time gathered around Shakespeare, the central
figure, in the Mermaid Tavern, Friday
Street, London. Engraved by James Faed.
Photogravure in Art Treasures of America.—Art
Treasures of America, i. 7; Corcoran
Gal. Cat.
SHAPLEIGH, FRANK HENRY, born in
Boston, Mass., March 7, 1842. Landscape
painter, pupil in Paris of Lambinet. Studio
in Boston; summer studio in Crawford
Notch, White Mountains. Works: Venice,
A. F. Hervey, Boston; Yosemite Valley, H.
C. Bacon, San Francisco; Mirror Lake, David
Dudley Field, New York; The Northern
Peaks, T. A. Chapman, Milwaukee; The
White Mountains, G. B. Prescott, New York;
Fort Marion—St. Augustine, W. G. Warden,
Philadelphia; Fort at Matanzas—Florida,
H. G. Lapham, New York; Old Mill in
Seabrook—N. H., G. H. Wright, Boston.
SHARPLES (Sharpless), JAMES, born in
England in 1751, died in New York, Feb.
26, 1811. Of a Roman Catholic family, he
was educated in France for the priesthood;
studied art in London under George Romney
(?), married, and sailed for America in
1794 with his wife and three children, but
was taken by the French, carried into Brest,
and imprisoned several months. On his
liberation he again embarked, and reached
New York in safety. Travelling in a four-wheeled
carriage with one horse he visited
the principal cities and towns of the United
States to paint the portraits of notable persons,
of which he made a large collection.
Though he worked some in oils most of
these were executed in pastels. A hundred
and thirty-four of the latter are preserved in
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, but few
of his oil pictures are extant. Two portraits
of Washington and one of Mrs. Washington,
painted from life about 1796 and taken soon
after to England, have lately been brought
to this country for sale. Sharples returned
to New York in 1809. His wife
and daughter Rolinda were both painters of
portraits. Mrs. Sharples exhibited pastels
of Gen. Washington and Dr. Priestley (now
in the National Portrait Gallery) at the Royal
Academy in 1807. She worked at Bath
and Bristol, England, and left all her property
to found an art institution in the latter
city, where she died in March, 1849. Rolinda,
who exhibited at the Academy in