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SOMMEIL DE JÉSUS. See Madonna with Diadem.


SOMOGYI, DANIEL, born at Nyiregyháza, Hungary, Sept. 13, 1837. Landscape painter, went early in life to Malta, where he began to practise painting in water-colours; settled at Munich in 1870, studied mostly from nature, and has since exhibited many views from the Alps in Bavaria, Austria, and Switzerland.


SON, JAN (FRANS) VAN, born at Antwerp, baptized Aug. 16, 1658, died in London about 1718. Flemish school; flower and fruit painter, son of Joris van Son, pupil of Jan Pauwel Gillemans, the elder; went early in life to England. Works: Fruit and Flower-Pieces in Museums of Brussels, Lille (1705), Lyons, Nantes (2); and in the Gallery of Augsburg.—Michiels, x. 425; Van den Branden, 1121.


SON, JORIS VAN, born at Antwerp, baptized Sept. 24, 1623, died there, buried June 25, 1667. Flemish school; flower and fruit painter, if not a pupil of Jan de Heem, he certainly took that master for his model. Master of the guild in 1644. Specimens of his work are in the Museums of Tournay, Madrid (3), Dresden (3), and Gotha (1658); in the Galleries at Bamberg, Carlsruhe, Copenhagen (2, 1664, 1665), Schleissheim (2, one dated 1656), and in the Van Lerius Collection at Antwerp.—Van den Branden, 1119.


SONDERLAND, JOHANN BAPTIST, born at Düsseldorf, Feb. 2, 1805, died there, July 21, 1878. Genre painter and illustrator, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow, and studied in Paris, Holland, and Frankfort. Works: Hans and Grete (after Uhland, 1839), National Gallery, Berlin; Scene from Guy Mannering, Wild Hunter (1830); Bear Dancing (1831), Königsberg Museum; Warrior's Farewell (1831); Return (1833), Count Hatzfeld, Düsseldorf; Disturbed Rendezvous (1833, 1847), Fish Market, Surprise (1835); Belated Travellers (1837); Rhenish Ferry (1838); After the Lesson; Cossacks quartering themselves with a Scholar (1841); Mowers returning Home (1845). His son, Fritz (born in Düsseldorf, Sept. 20, 1836), pupil of the Academy under Hiddemann, paints humorous genre scenes. Works: Grandmother's Birthday, Despatch of Victory (1871); High Taxes (1872); Flower Greeting (1881).—Kunst-Chronik, xiv. 55; Müller, Düsseldf. K., 211; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 878; Illustr. Zeitg. (1882), ii. 443; Wiegmann, 271.


SONDERMANN, HERMANN, born in Berlin in 1832. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Otto in 1851-53, then studied in Antwerp, Paris, and under Jordan in Düsseldorf. Works: Bee-Keeper (1860); Return from the Chase; Auction; Sleighing; Marriage Contract (1866); Coffee Club (1868); Lawyer's Anteroom; Festival Roast (1870); Unwelcome Suitor; First Snow; Church Festival; Thirsty Soul; Our Heroes, Wiesbaden Gallery.


SONJE, JAN, flourished in Rotterdam, died in 1691. Dutch school; landscape painter, master of the guild at Delft in 1646, but left that city about 1654; painted chiefly mountain views in the Italian style. Works: A Valley, Hague Museum; View near Rotterdam (1692), Rotterdam Museum; Landscape (1660?), Augsburg Gallery.—Kramm, v. 1540.



SONNE, JÖRGEN VALENTIN, born at Birkerod, Zealand, June 24, 1801. Genre and battle painter, pupil in Copenhagen of Gebauer and of the Academy (1815-26), then in Munich (1828-31) of Peter Hess; went to Rome in 1831, returned in 1841, and became member of the Academy in 1846; Order of Danebrog, 1852. Works: Cavalry Attack at Sehestedt (1822); Skirmish in Tyrol (1829), Roman Peasants going to Market (1837), Old Fisherman (1844), Cattle in the Water (1846), Scene in St.