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1878; member of Society of American Artists, of which he was the first president; professor in Art Students' League, New York; member of Chicago Academy. Studio in New York. Works: Eager for the Fray (1861); Toning the Bell (1874); Sheep Shearing—Bavarian Highlands (1876); Good Morning (1878); Gretchen, Burgomaster, Task (1879); Capellmeister, Marble Quarry, Indian Girl, Very Old, Autumn (1880); Tom-Boy (1881); Gossip, Tuning Up (1844); Sorry for the Gorse, Under the Cornstack (1885); Jealousy (1886).—Am. Art Rev. (1881), 97, 145; Sheldon, 96.


SHORE, JANE, Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, H. 6 ft. 8 in. × 5 ft. Condemned as a sorceress and adulteress, she is pursued through the streets of London and insulted by the populace. Salon, 1850.


SHRIMP GIRL, Hogarth, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 2 ft. 1 in. × 1 ft. 8 in. Half-length, face nearly full, with mouth half-open. She wears a white cap with a dark cloth over her head, on which she bears a tray containing shrimps and a small metal measure. Leigh Court sale (1884), 256 guineas.—Art Journal (1885), 8.


SHULAMITE, Alexandre Cabanel, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York; canvas, signed, dated 1875. Life-size, sitting on the floor of a highly decorated apartment, with a column and rich stuffs in background. One hand is raised to her head; the other is partly veiling her bosom, from which the gauze has fallen. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America, i. 120.


SHUMWAY, HENRY COLTON, born in Middletown, Conn., July 4, 1807, died in New York, May 6, 1884. Portrait and miniature painter, pupil of the National Academy, and one of its earliest members, having been elected in 1832. For many years a successful miniature portrait painter in New York and in other American cities, and a regular exhibitor at the Academy. He went to Washington, D. C., in 1838 to paint Henry Clay, and had many other distinguished sitters.


SHURTLEFF, ROSWELL MORSE, born at Rindge, N. H., June 14, 1841. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of the Lowell Institute, Boston, and of the National Academy, New York, where he first exhibited in 1872. Studio in New York. Elected an A.N.A. in 1881. Works: American Panther (1876); Race for Life (1877); The Still-Hunter; On the Alert (1879); Autumn Gold, Pedro (1880); Blue Heron (1881); October Hunting, Under the Beeches (1882); Foot of the Mountain, Ray of Light, In the Wild-Wood (1883); Mt. Porter—Adirondacks, By Still Water (1884); October, Road to the Mill (1885); Song of Summer Woods, Morning in the Forest (1886).—Sheldon, 211.



SIBERECHTS, JAN, born in Antwerp, baptized Jan. 29, 1627, died in London in 1703. Flemish school; landscape painter, admitted to the guild in 1648. Painted many English landscapes for the Duke of Buckingham, who took him to England, where he was employed four years in the decoration of Cliefden House, and afterwards at Newstead and Chatsworth. Was distinguished for his water-colours. Endeavoured successfully to imitate Berchem and Karel du Jardin. Works: Miracle of St. Francis of Assisi (1666), Antwerp Museum; Farm Yard (1660), Brussels Museum; Leasehold Farm, Valenciennes Museum; Landscapes with Figures and Cattle (2, 1663, 1670), Lille Museum; do. (1), Bordeaux Museum; do., Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Mother sewing by the Cradle (1671), Copen-