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Rome (1846); Dordrecht, French Troops fording the Magra (1847); Amalfi, Mola de Gaeta (1848); Tilbury Fort, Lago Maggiore (1849); Battle of Roveredo (1851); Bay of Baiæ, Port of Rochelle (1852); The Victory towed into Gibraltar (1853); Last of the Crew, Hulks in the Medway (1854); Siege of Sebastian (1855); The Abandoned, Guarda Costa off Bidassoa (1856); St. Jean de Luz, Calais Fishermen (1857); Fortress of Savona, Castle of Ischia (1858); On Coast of Brittany, Maltese Xebec on Rocks, Brodick Castle (1859); Angers, Vesuvius, Outward Bound (1860); Capture of Smuggled Goods, Homeward Bound (1861); Stack Rock, Race of Ramsay, Nieuwe Diep, Coast of Normandy, Coast of Brittany (1862); Coast of Calabria, The Defence and her Prize on Morning after Trafalgar, Oude Scheldt, Shakespeare's Cliff—Dover, Worms Head—Bristol Channel (1863); Mew Stone—Plymouth Sound, War, Peace, On the Hollands Diep (1864); Bass Rock, Vale of Narni (1865); Tintagel Castle, Pic du Midi d'Ossaiu—Pyrenees (1866); Skirmish off Heligoland (1867, his last work).—Art Journal (1857), 137; (1867), 171; Portfolio (1879), 124, 135; Gentleman's Mag., July, 1867; Sandby, ii. 149.

STANGE, BERNHARD, born in Dresden, July 24, 1807, died at Sindelsdorf, Oct. 10, 1880. Landscape painter, pupil of Rottmann in Munich in 1830; also influenced by Rahl. Visited Venice in 1849; in his latter years lived as a farmer in the country. Deep feeling for the poetry of nature and history pervades his pictures. Order of St. Michael in 1858. Works: Morning Bell (20 replicas); Evening in the Alps (1835); Alpine Valley (1837); Mountain Valley at Twilight (1838); Autumn Evening on Lake (1841); Celebration of German Union (1849); Moonlight (1851), Hamburg Gallery; Foundation of Venice—Morning; Arrival of Admirals after Battle of Lepanto—Noon; Singers on the Canal—Night (1854-57), Queen Victoria; Ships in Gulf of Venice (1853), Evening from Tower Window, Burial of Doge (1852), Moonlight Landscape (1861), New Pinakothek, Munich; Evening Bell, Night in Venice, Schack Gallery, ib.—Regnet, ii. 277; Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 166.

STANHOPE, R. SPENCER, born in England; contemporary. Belongs to Pre-Raphaelite school; paints highly elaborated decorative pictures akin in style to early Florentine art. Lives in Florence (1884). Works: Flight into Egypt (1862); Rizpah (1863); The Mill, Beauty and the Beast (1865); Footsteps of the Flock (1868); Rape of Proserpine (1869); Eve Tempted, Love and the Maiden, Banks of the Styx (1877); The Shulamite, Cupid and Psyche (1878); Waters of Lethe (1880); Autumn (1881); The Shulamite (1882); Charon and Psyche (1883); Patience on a Monument (1884); Birth of Venus (1885); Why seek ye the Living among the Dead? (1886).

STANZIONI, MASSIMO, Cavaliere, born in Naples in 1585, died there in 1656. Neapolitan school; pupil in Naples of Fabrizio Santafede, of Caracciolo, and Corenzio; afterwards studied in Rome works of Annibale Carracci and of Guido, and succeeded in imitating the colouring of the latter so well that he was called Guido Reni di Napoli. His reputation won him the enmity of Spagnoletto, who persecuted him bitterly. Works: Lucretia, Naples Museum; Cleopatra, Palazzo Cassaro, Naples; Deposition of Christ, over entrance inside Church of S. Martino, Naples; St. Sebastian, Louvre; Madonna, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.—Lanzi, ii. 38; Ch. Blanc, École napolitaine; Lavice, 223.

STAPLEAUX, MICHEL GHISLAIN, born in Brussels, June 26, 1799, died in 1881. History and portrait painter, pupil of David; won grand prizes in Antwerp (1822), Brussels (1823), and The Hague (1829), and became professor in the Brussels Academy. Works: Return of Prodigal Son, Prague Gallery; Death of Cleopatra; Napoleon at St. Helena; many portraits of princely personages.—Immerzeel, iii. 108.