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of the Royal Academy, receiving at the same time the honour of knighthood. He was also the author of several literary productions, among them "Alasco," a tragedy (1823), and "Old Court," a novel (1829). Works: Infant Bacchus, Thomas Morton (dramatist), Thomas Lewis (comedian), National Gallery; William IV., Queen Adelaide, Windsor Castle; Queen Victoria, Royal Academy, London; Portrait of Picton, National Portrait Gallery.—Art Journal (1849), 12; Redgrave; Cunningham; F. de Conches, 407; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Sandby, ii. 136.

Adoration of Shepherds, Anton Raphael Mengs, Madrid Museum.


SHEEP SHEARER (La tondeuse de moutons), Jean François Millet, Quincy A. Shaw, Boston. Figures three-quarters length, life-size. A peasant man, seated on an overturned basket, holds a sheep which a woman is shearing. Painted in 1860; exhibited in Brussels, 1860; Salon, 1861; Bordeaux, 1865; Lille, 1866; Exposition universelle, Paris, 1867. First sketch in Collection of Mlle. Sensier.—Gazette des B. Arts (1860), viii. 96; (1861), xi. 63; Sensier, vie, 216.


SHEEP SHEARING (Tonte des moutons), Jean François Millet, William Schaus, New York. A farm-yard, with a house, farm buildings, and trees in background, and a man and woman shearing sheep; in foreground, many sheep, some shorn and some unshorn (the latter suspiciously smelling the former), and a man leading out a sheep to be sheared. Painted in 1861. From Collection of M. Fanien.—Sensier, vie, 206.


SHEPHERDS, ADORATION OF, Correggio. See Notte, La.

By Domenico Ghirlandajo, Florence Academy; wood, H. 4 ft 6 in. × 4 ft. 8 in.; dated 1485. The Child lies on the ground in front of a sarcophagus which serves as a feeding-trough for a cow and a mule; at left, the Virgin kneeling, and Joseph gazing at the procession of the Magi winding round a hill and passing through a triumphal arch; at right, three shepherds, one bearing a lamb. Vasari errs in saying that one of the figures is a portrait of Ghirlandajo. Painted for the Sassetti Chapel in S. Trinità, Florence. Engraved by Perfetti.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 257; C. & C., Italy, ii. 476; Gall Accad. di Firenze, Pl. 48.

By Anton Raphael Mengs, Madrid Museum; wood, H. 8 ft. 6 in. × 6 ft. 3 in. The Virgin, with the Child in her lap, seated in the stable, with an ass and an ox in background; at left, St. Joseph sitting, and behind him the painter himself as a spectator; at right, the shepherds in adoration, one of

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