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J. J. Angerstein (1824). Engraved by S. Bernard; H. C. Shenton; Sevier.—Vosmaer, 201, 472; Smith, vii. 23.
By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; canvas, H. about 14 ft. × 10 ft. The Virgin with Christ, whom two women are adoring, seated on a kind of hammock floor of rope netting, covered with straw, which divides the picture into two stories; in the lower division, the stable, are a cock, a cow, and a peacock, some shepherds with gifts, and a woman with a basket of eggs. A "tricky picture, hastily painted."—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 334.
By Velasquez, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 7 ft. 7 in. × 5 ft. 6 in. The Virgin, kneeling at left, supports Jesus, who lies on a crib, while Joseph stands beyond, holding a staff; three shepherds kneel before the Child, and an old woman behind them bends forward; on right, a girl, with a basket on her head, enters a door; in foreground lie two sheep. Probably authentic, though genuineness has been doubted. Purchased about 1832 for Louis Philippe from Conde del Águila, Seville, in whose house it had been since it was painted; sold in 1853 to National Gallery for £2,050. Engraved by E. Lingée (outline).—Curtis, 4; Waagen, iii. 347.
Subject treated also by Palma Vecchio, Louvre; Francisco Bassano, Dresden Museum; Jacopo Bassano, Louvre, Paris; Leandro Bassano, Venice Academy; Ghirlandajo, Florence Academy; Adriaan van der Werff, Uffizi, Florence; Titian, Ambrosiana, Milan; Moretto, Berlin Museum; Andrea Schiavone, Vienna Museum; Guido Reni, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Spagnoletto, Louvre, Paris; Garofalo, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Domenico Feti, ib.; Palma Vecchio, ib. Josef Anton Rhomberg, Frauenkirche, Munich; Bastien-Lepage (Salon, 1876).
SHEPHERD'S CHIEF MOURNER, Sir
Edwin Landseer, South Kensington Museum;
canvas, H. 1 ft. 6 in. × 2 ft. A shepherd's
coffin, partly covered by a plaid and
a blanket, rests in a rude cottage; on a
three-legged stool lie a Bible and a pair of
spectacles, and on the floor beside it a bonnet
and crook, while by the coffin, with his
head resting upon it, sits the old man's
faithful dog—his chief mourner. Royal
Academy, 1837.
SHEPHERD, LITTLE (Pastor Niño),
Murillo, Comte Henri de Greffulhe, Paris;
H. 1 ft. 10 in. × 1 ft. 4 in. The young
Saviour, walking front, with a crook in his
left hand, rests the other on one of two
sheep on his right; on his left, another
sheep running. Presented by Queen Isabella
to M. Guizot in recognition of his
services in bringing about the marriage of
her sister to the Duc de Montpensier. Sold
in Paris, 1874, for 120,000 francs.—Gaz. des
B. Arts (1877), xv. 155; Curtis, 186.
SHIPBUILDER, Rembrandt, Buckingham
Palace; canvas, H. 3 ft. 10 in. × 8 ft. 6 in.;
signed, dated 1633. A shipbuilder, seen to
knees, making a drawing of a ship, is interrupted
by his wife, who has entered the
room with a letter. One of Rembrandt's
most noted pictures. Gildemeester sale
(1800), 8,050 florins; Smeth Van Alpen sale
(1810), 16,500 florins. Engraved by Hodges
(1802); J. P. Quilley. Etched by De Frey.—Waagen,
Treasures, ii. 4; Vosmaer, 35,
432; Smith, vii. 68.
SHIPWRECK, Joseph M. W. Turner, National
Gallery, London; canvas, H. 5 ft. 8
in. × 7 ft. 11 in. The hulk of a large ship,
still crowded with human beings, is labouring
in a stormy sea; three fishing-boats are
endeavouring to approach her bows, where
some of the passengers are dropping from
the bowsprit into a boat. Painted in 1805
for Sir John Fleming Leicester; exchanged
by him for Sun in the Mist. Engraved by
W. Miller in Turner Gallery.
SHIRLAW, WALTER, born in Paisley,
Scotland, Aug. 6, 1838. Genre painter;
taken to America in 1840. Pupil in Munich,
in 1870-77, of Raab, Wagner, Ramberg, and
Lindenschmidt. Exhibited first at National
Academy in 1861; elected an A.N.A. in