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SPRANGER, BARTHOLOMEUS, born
in Antwerp, March 21, 1546, died in Prague
about 1627. Flemish
school; history and
portrait painter, pupil
of Jan Mandyn and of
Cornelis van Dalen.
In 1565 he went to
Paris, and thence to
Milan, Parma, and
Rome, where he remained
until 1575.
Recommended to
Maximilian II. in 1575, he executed for him
and his son, Rudolph II., important decorative
works, and resided as court painter in
Prague, whither he returned after a visit to
his native country in 1602. Ennobled by
Rudolph II., he called himself Spranger van
den Schilden. Despite many good qualities,
his works show the want of early training.
Works: Magdalen, Antwerp Museum; Susanna
justified by Daniel, Brussels Museum;
Holy Family, Brunswick Gallery; Banquet
of the Gods, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Diana
and Actæon, Christiania Gallery; Diana
and Nymphs, Stockholm Museum; Venus
served by the Graces, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Resurrection (attributed), Berlin
Museum; Circumcision, Descent from the
Cross, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Cupid and
Psyche, Oldenburg Gallery; Apollo, Mydas,
and Marsias, Lot and Daughters fleeing
from Sodom, Susanna and the Elders,
Schleissheim Gallery; Cupid and Psyche,
Stuttgart Museum; Ulysses with Circe,
Mercury surprising Venus and Mars, Venus
and Mercury with Genii, Apollo and Muses,
Vulcan and Maia, Triumph of Wisdom, Allegory
on Virtues of Rudolph II., Hercules
and Omphale,
Mars with Venus
and Cupid,
portraits
of Artist and
his Wife, Vienna
Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande;
Fétis, Artistes belges à l'étranger, i. 389;
Immerzeel, iii. 104; Kramm, v. 1551; Michiels,
vi. 3; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 31.
SPRING, Nicolas Poussin. See Paradise.
SPRING-TIME, Pierre Auguste Cot, D.
T. Lyle, Brooklyn, N. Y.; canvas, H. 8 ft.
× 4 ft. A young man and a girl, life-size,
sitting in a swing among the trees of a
garden. Painted in 1873; bought by John
Wolfe, New York; at his sale (1878) to Mr.
Lyle. Replica, smaller, Dr. Marcy, New
York; two more in Europe.—Photogravure
in Art Treasures of America, i. 54.
SPRINGER, CORNELIS, born in Amsterdam,
May 25, 1817. Architecture painter,
pupil of Kasper Karsen, whom he greatly
surpasses in conception of his subjects and
in powerful colouring. Member of Rotterdam
Academy in 1856; gold medal, Hague,
1857; Orders of Oaken Crown (1861) and
of Leopold. Works: City Hall at Middleburg
(1859); do. and Market at Veere
(1861), City Hall at Cologne (1874), Museum,
Amsterdam; City in Winter, Market in
Haarlem, View in the Briel, Museum Fodor,
ib.; Town Hall and Market at Naarden, Rotterdam
Museum; Leyden Cathedral; City
Halls at The Hague, Brussels, Bremen,
Brunswick, Münster, Cologne, and Lübeck;
Market Place in Ulm.—Immerzeel, iii. 106;
Kramm, v. 1553.
SPROSSE, KARL, born in Leipsic, June
11, 1819, died there, Jan. 1, 1874. Landscape
and architecture painter, pupil of
Leipsic Academy under Brauer and Schnorr.
Visited Saxony and the Rhine country in
1836-37; went in 1844 to Rome; spent
many years there and in Venice, but made
occasional visits home; visited also Greece.
Gold medal in 1854. Works: Roman Forum;
St. Mary's Church in Nuremberg;
Cathedral of Ratisbon; St. Mark's in Venice;
Castle of Merseburg; Cathedrals of
Erfurt and Worms; Series of Views in Rome
and Venice; many churches and castles in
Germany; Rear View of Ratisbon Cathedral
(1857), The former Moat at Leipsic (1858),
Tombstones of the Scaligers, Leipsic Museum.—Andresen,
i. 76; Kunst-Chronik, ix. 252.