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Baring's Collection, ib.; Meerman Family, Male Portrait (1656), Kitchen Utensils, Louvre; Musical Party in a Kitchen, Male Portrait, Amsterdam Museum; Male Portrait (1671), Rotterdam Museum; The Cook, Portrait of a Young Man, Berlin Museum; Dutch Interiors (2, one dated 1683), Carlsruhe Gallery; Interior of Elegant Dutch House (1668), Young Woman teasing Parrot, Copenhagen Gallery; Interrupted Music Lesson (1672), Poultry Vender (1673), Songstress, Dresden Museum; Interior of Slaughter-House, Portrait of a Lady, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Sailor Drinking, Leipsic Museum; Tailor's Shop, Woman sewing at Window, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Shoemaker's Shop (1670), Violin Player, Old Beggar, Schwerin Gallery; Man with Glass of Beer, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Family Group, Czernin Gallery, Vienna; Money-Changer and Wife, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; others in Cassel, Brunswick, and Stockholm Galleries.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 410; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Immerzeel, iii. 92; Kramm, v. 1527.



SLINGENEYER, ERNEST, born at Loochristy, near Ghent, May 29, 1823. History painter, pupil of Wappers. Member of Brussels Academy. Commander of Leopold Order. Works: Sinking of the Vengeur (1845), Cologne Museum; Triumph of Chlodio; Death of Captain Jacobsen (1845); Death of Nelson (1850); Philip the Good in the Battle of Brouwershaven (1852); Christian Martyr (1860); Sea Fight; Battle of Lepanto, Vesalius the Physician in Army of Charles V., Brussels Museum; Camoens; Italian genre pictures. In fresco: 12 subjects from Belgian history, Palais des Académies, Brussels.—Immerzeel, iii. 93; Müller, 493.


SLUIS, JACOBUS VAN DER, born at Leyden in 1660, died there in 1736. Dutch school; genre and portrait painter, pupil of Arie de Vois, and of Slingelandt, in whose style he painted assemblies and festivals, full of merry figures of excellent execution and brilliant colouring. Works: Young People hanging Nets between Trees, Allegories (2, one dated 1684), Lady and Gentleman in Garden Pavilion (1699), Leyden Museum.


SMALA, CAPTURE OF THE. See Abd-el-Kader.


SMEDLEY, W. T., born in Chester County, Pa., in 1858. Genre painter, self-taught. First exhibited at National Academy in 1881. Member of Society of American Artists. Studio in New York. Works: Weekly Mail, Embarrassment (T. B. Clarke, New York), Tired Out (1881); Dorothy, Golden Rod (1883).


SMEYERS, GILLES, born at Mechlin in 1635, died there in 1710. Flemish school; history painter, pupil of Jan Verhoeven; master of the guild in 1657, its treasurer in 1682. Works: St. Norbert consecrating Deacons, Death of St. Norbert, Brussels Museum; Group Portrait of Corporation (1695), Museum, Mechlin; Benefits of Holy Trinity, The Three Modes of Slavery, St. John's, ib.; Raising of Lazarus, Disciples at Emmaus, Seminary, ib. His son and pupil Jacques (1657-1732), master in 1688, painted history, portrait, and genre.—Michiels, x. 473; Siret (1883), ii. 278.


SMIBERT, JOHN, born in Edinburgh in 1684, died in Boston in 1751. Portrait painter; obtained some elementary instruction at Edinburgh, where he brought himself into notice by the portrait of a young negro from Martinique. Then followed a short residence in London, where he studied in Sir James Thornhill's Academy, and three years' work in Italy, where the Grand Duke of Tuscany employed him to paint the portraits of some Siberian Tartars to be sent