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e.g., a Madonna in Casa Agosti at Belluno. Two altarpieces by him exist: one, a Virgin Enthroned, in S. Giorgio, Velo; the other, an Assumption, in the gallery of Vicenza. Other specimens of his work are in S. Corona and S. Chiara, Vicenza, and in the Casa Piovene, Padua.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 420; Burckhardt, 604.
SPERLING, JOHANN CHRISTIAN,
born at Halle, Saxony, in 1691, died at Anspach
in 1746. Portrait painter, son and
pupil in Hamburg of the portrait painter
Johann Heinrich Sperling, then pupil of
Leipsic Academy. Court painter in Anspach
in 1710. Later went to Rotterdam;
became one of the best pupils of Adriaan
van der Werff, many of whose pictures he
copied. Works: Pomona and Vertumnus in
the Form of an Old Woman (1719), Dresden
Gallery; Head of a Persian (1743),
Gotha Museum.—Nagler, xvii. 138.
SPERL, JOHANN, born at Buch near
Nuremberg, Nov. 3, 1840. Genre painter,
pupil at the Industrial Art School in Nuremberg
under Kreling, then of the Munich
Academy under Anschütz and Ramberg.
Works: The New Suit; Looking for a
Bride; Going to Baptism; Suabian Peasant
Wedding; On Furlough.—Müller, 499.
SPHINX, QUESTIONER OF THE, Elihu
Vedder, Martin Brimmer, Boston. The
Sphinx, covered to the chin with the desert
sand, as it was before the excavations of
Captain Caviglia; an old Arab, bending forward
and partly kneeling, has placed his
ear to the imperturbable lips, as if he expected
the mystery of the ages to answer
his questions.
SPIELBERG (Spilberg), JOHANNES,
born at Düsseldorf, April 30, 1619, died
there, Aug. 10, 1690. Dutch school. Portrait
and history painter, pupil of Govert
Flinck in Amsterdam. Court painter in
Cologne, where he portrayed many princes
and princesses. Works: Archer's Banquet
(1650), Amsterdam Museum; Lady's Portrait
(1648), Darmstadt Museum; Juno giving
Io to Argus, Liechtenstein Gallery,
Vienna; Portrait of Prince Johann Wilhelm
of the Palatinate, and Portrait of a Lady
(both attributed), Munich Gallery.—Immerzeel,
iii. 104.
SPIERINCKX, PEETER, born at Antwerp,
Aug. 30, 1635, died there, buried
Aug. 30, 1711. Flemish school; landscape
painter, mostly self-taught; went in
1660 to Italy, and returned to Antwerp in
1666, having meanwhile painted also in
France, for Louis XIV. Works: Two Landscapes,
St. Augustine's, Antwerp; do., Madrid
Museum; View in Paris, Germanic Museum,
Nuremberg; Landscapes with Figures,
etc. (2), Oriental Seaport, Schleissheim
Gallery.—Van den Branden, 1073.
SPIES, RETURN OF THE (L'automne,
Autumn), Nicolas Poussin, Louvre, Paris;
canvas, H. 3 ft. 10 in. × 5 ft. 3 in. In a
valley, with a height and fortifications of a
city on right, a woman mounted upon a
ladder gathers fruit from a tree; in foreground,
the two spies sent by Moses into
Canaan bear suspended from a pole immense
bunches of grapes as evidence of the
fertility of the soil. One of a series of four
painted in 1660-64 for the Duc de Richelieu,
whence passed to Louis XIV. Engraved
by J. Pesne.—Filhol, iv. Pl. 238.
SPIESS, HEINRICH, born in Munich,
May 10, 1832 (1831), died there, Aug. 6 (8),
1875. History painter, pupil of Munich
Academy under Voltz and Kaulbach. Assisted
Schwind in the Wartburg frescos;
with his brother August painted the Villa
Feodora in Liebenstein after L. Richter's
designs. Works: Two Scenes from Life of
Henry the Lion, National Museum, Munich;
allegorical representations of the Sciences
(with his brother August), in Arcades of
Maximilianeum, ib.—Dioskuren (1875),
262; Kunst-Chronik, x. 810.
SPILNBERGER (Spielberger), HANS,
born at Kaschau, Hungary, in 1628, died in
1679. History painter, supposed to have
studied in Italy. Court painter in Augsburg,
then in Vienna. Works: St. Peter's
Pentecostal Sermon, Church of Holy Cross,