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(1844); David and Abishai in Saul's Tent (1845); Emperor Maximilian and Albrecht Dürer (1848); The Welcome (1851); Trumpeter's Children (1851); Holiday (1852); Reading the Bible, David finding Saul asleep, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Sunday Morning, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam; Poor Family fed in Rich House; Soldiers playing Dice; Children in Studio, Stettin Museum; Convent Gate; Patrician Interior; Meal-Time; Welcome Pause (1866); Service of Love (1870), Hamburg Gallery; Fruit Painter (1876), Düsseldorf Gallery; Birth Day; Forest House; Good Treatment—Bad Payment (1883).—Kunst-Chronik, xix. 24; W. Müller, Düsseldorf K., 160; Wiegmann, 225; Zeitsch. f. b. K., vi. 149.

SIEGUMFELDT, HERMAN CARL, born near Esrom in North Zealand, Sept. 18, 1833. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy in 1844, and afterwards of Simonsen; won the small silver medal in 1850, a money prize in 1856, and the travelling prize in 1859; broke his arm in Sweden in 1860, which seriously crippled him; visited in 1863 Brussels, Paris, and Rome. Works: Apple Woman, School Girl with Books (1856); Fishermen from North Zealand, Fishermen on the Strand at Evening (1857); Husbandmen from the Heaths, From the Country (1860); Sad Tale from the Sea (1862); Woman and Children (1865); Roman Peasants in Church (1866); many portraits (1878-84). He is a portrait painter of high rank.—Sigurd Müller, 317; Weilbach, 633.

SIEMIRADZKI, HENDRIK, born in government of Grodno, Nov. 15, 1843. History painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy and of Piloty in Munich. Visited France and Germany in 1870, and settled in Rome in 1872. Medals: Vienna, 1873; Philadelphia, 1876; of honour, Paris, 1878; Berlin, 1879; Melbourne, 1882; L. of Honour, 1878. Member of St. Petersburg, Berlin, Stockholm, and Rome Academies. Works: Alexander's Confidence in Philip (1870); Figure Painting after Poem by Tolstoi (1871); Roman Orgies (1872); Christ and the Sinner (1873); Nero's Torches (1876); Sword Dance; Woman or Cup (1879); Shipwrecked Man Begging; Pirate's Cave (1881); Nubian Fortune-Teller (1882); Cremation of Russian Captain in 10th Century (1883), Moscow Museum; Summer Night in Pompeii (1884); Nero by the Body of a Christian Martyr, Christ with Martha and Mary (1885); frescos in Church of Our Saviour, Moscow.—Müller, 490; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 401; xix. 352, 382; Kunst f. Alle, i. 150.

SIENA, GUIDO DA. See Guido.

SIENA, MATTEO DA. See Matteo di Giovanni.

SIGALON, XAVIER, born at Uzès (Gard), in 1788 (1790?), died in Rome, Aug. 18, 1837. French school; genre painter, pupil of Monrose at Nîmes, later of Souchon and Guérin in Paris. Sent to Rome, when M. Thiers was minister, to copy Michelangelo's Last Judgment, now in the École des Beaux Arts, which cost three and a half years' labour, for which he received 58,000 francs, an indemnity of 20,000 francs, and a travelling pension of 3,000 francs. Returned to copy other works in Sistine Chapel, and died of cholera. Medal, 1824; L. of Honour, 1831. Works: Death of St. Louis (1815), Baptism of Christ, Cathedral of Nîmes; Holy Ghost descending upon the Apostles (1817), Church of Aigues-Mortes; Young Courtesan (1821), Louvre; Locusta experimenting with Poisons (1824), Portrait of Louis Philippe, Nîmes Museum; Athalie having all the Children of the Blood Royal killed (1827),