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III. of Poland and his Family, Hercules pursuing Nessus (1732), Augustus the Strong and Frederick William I., Portraits of Augustus II. and Augustus III. of Poland, of the latter's Consort, and of Louis XV. of France, Dresden Gallery; Augustus III. as Electoral Prince, Leipsic Museum; Louis XIV. receiving at Fontainebleau the Elector of Saxony, Last Supper, Portraits of Frederick Augustus II. of Poland, Marie Joseph of Austria—Queen of Poland, and the Duchesse de Berry, Versailles Museum; Fall of Phaëton, Schwerin Gallery; St. Peter healing the Sick, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Mariette, Abecedario, v. 217; Bellier, ii. 504; Jal, 1133.
SIMBRECHT (Zimbrecht), MATTHIAS,
born in Munich, early part of 17th century,
died in Prague in 1680. German
school; imitated the style of Raphael, whom
he studied in Italy. His colouring is warm
and powerful. Works: Altarpiece, and S.
Rosalia, St. Stephen's Church; Joachim and
Anna, and Visitation, Gallery of the Estates,
Prague.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 527.
SIMEON-FORT. See Fort.
SIMEON IN THE TEMPLE. See Presentation.
SIMMLER, FRIEDRICH, born at Hanau,
May 4, 1801, died at Aschaffenburg, Nov.
2, 1872. Animal, landscape, and portrait
painter, pupil of Munich Academy under
Langer and W. Kobell, much influenced by
Wagenbaur, then pupil of Vienna Academy
(1824); returned home and went again
to Vienna in 1826; painted portraits and
went to Italy in 1827, and after his return
painted portraits in Hanover; then took up
almost exclusively animal painting (1829-30)
at Munich, and from 1832 at Düsseldorf,
whence he returned to Geisenheim in 1835;
moved to Aschaffenburg in 1862; often
painted animals in the landscapes of Böcking,
Grichen, and Schulten, while Achenbach
and Scheuren supplied the landscape
for his cattle-pieces. Works: Midday Rest
in Pasture (1830), Königsberg Museum;
Noonday Rest on Lake Starnberg (1833);
Wild Bull (1835), National Gallery, Berlin;
Bull and Sheep (1834), Raczynski Gallery.
ib.; Great Dutch Landscape; Bull with
Two Cows (1835), Potsdam Art Union;
Sheep and Goats, Provinzial Museum, Hanover;
Bull with Cows Drinking (1835), Stettin
Art Union; Animal-Piece, Wiesbaden
Gallery; Cows at Pasture in Approaching
Storm (1835). His son, Wilhelm (born at
Geisenheim, Sept. 6, 1840), genre painter,
pupil of Düsseldorf Academy, has made a
good reputation with attractive scenes from
huntsmen's life. Works: Sunday Hunters
(1862); On the Way Home (1868); Going
to Hunt (1869); Dead Poacher and his Children;
Game's Crossing-Place (1880).—Andresen,
i. 131; Jordan (1885), ii. 218;
Kunst-Chronik, viii. 90; Land und Meer
(1873), ii. 752.
SIMMLER, JOSEF, born at Warsaw,
March 14, 1823, died there, March 1, 1868.
History and portrait painter, pupil of Dresden
Academy, and of Bendemann, then in
Munich of Genelli, and in Paris of Paul Delaroche;
on his return to his native land in
1848 he at once came into prominence, but
soon left for Italy, where he studied especially
Raphael in Rome, and Fra Angelico
in Florence. After his return he painted
many stirring scenes from the history of Poland,
which increased his reputation. Honorary
member of St. Petersburg Academy,
1866. Works: Maria Immaculata; The
Three Marys; Stoning of St. Matthew;
Martyrdom of St. Josaphat; David Singing
Psalms; Entombment; Christ on the Cross;
Wedding of Cupid and Psyche (ceiling in
a palace at Warsaw); Painting, Sculpture,
and Architecture; Death of Queen Barbara;
Education of King Sigismund; Captivity
of John of Finland and his Wife; Oath of
Queen Hedwig.—L'Art (1883), i. 101.
SIMMONS, EDWARD EMERSON, born
at Concord, Mass.; contemporary. Genre
painter, pupil in Paris of Jules Lefebvre
and of Boulanger. Honourable mention,
Paris Salon, 1883; prize of $2,000, 2d Prize
Fund Exhibition, New York, 1886. Works: