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Destruction; Hylas carried off by Nymphs; Guardian Angel and Water-*Sprites (1870); Lorelei, Rübezahl (1872); Erl-King's Daughters (1874). In fresco: Ceiling Medallions, New Museum, Berlin; Resurrection, Angels, Chapel of Palace, ib.; Christ on Mount of Olives, Church of Peace, Potsdam.—Müller, 504; Jordan (1885), ii. 222; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 51; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 186; Wiegmann, 144.


STEINER, JOHANN NEPOMUK, born at Iglau, Moravia, May 16, 1725, died in Vienna in 1792. German school; history and portrait painter, self-taught; went to Rome, where he took Raphael Mengs for his model. In 1751 visited Venice; then lived in Iglau, until the Empress Maria Theresa called him to Vienna as court painter about 1755. Member of Academy in 1767. Works: Death of St. James; St. Aloysius, Ignatius Loyola, Martyrdom of Stephen; St. Joseph, A Chemist, Vienna Academy. Portraits of Maria Theresa, Joseph II., Prince Kaunitz, Field-Marshal Loudon, the Poet Metastasio. Fresco paintings in different churches.—Wurzbach, xxxviii. 69; Nagler, xvii. 286.


STEINFELD, FRANZ, born in Vienna, May 26, 1787, died at Pisek, Bohemia, Nov. 3, 1868. Landscape painter, pupil of his father and of Prokop in sculpture, then of Vienna Academy in painting. Appointed chamber painter by Archduke Anton in 1815; became corrector at Vienna Academy in 1837, professor in 1838. Travelled much in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Belgium, and France. Gold medal in 1848. His style sometimes recalls Ruisdael. He probably painted about 800 pictures. Works: Rocky Landscape near Baden (1820); Hallstadt Lake (1834); Swampy Wood and Deserted Mill (1846), Vienna Museum; Day-Break (1847); Gastein 44 Years ago (1857).—Wurzbach, xxxviii. 81; Kunst-Chronik, iv. 84; Nagler, xvii. 288.


STEINFURTH, HERMANN, born in Hamburg in 1824, died there, Feb. 7, 1880. History and portrait painter, pupil in Düsseldorf of Karl Sohn, and of the Academy under Schadow in 1845-52; returned to Düsseldorf after having visited Italy, and settled in Hamburg. Works: Entombment (1844); Education of Jupiter (1846), Cologne Museum; Abduction of Hylas (1847); Resurrection of Christ, Peter, Paul, St. Peter's, Hamburg; Diana surprised by Actæon (1847), Tithonus abducted by Eos, Tartarus, Bacchantes, Portraits of Hermann Kauffmann, Ludwig Knaus, of himself, and three others, Kunsthalle, ib.—Kunst-Chronik, xv. 386; Graph. K., ii. 60.


STEINHAUSEN, WILHELM, born at Sorau, Feb. 2, 1846. History painter and illustrator, pupil of Berlin Academy in 1863-66, and of Carlsruhe Art School until 1869. Resided in Berlin; spent a year in Rome, and settled in Frankfort in 1876; illustrates especially religious subjects. Works: Peter's Deliverance from Prison; History of the Birth of Our Lord (1872); Labourer in the Vineyard (1881). In fresco: Decorations of Ravenstein House, Frankfort.—Müller, 505.


STEINHÄUSER, PAULINE, née Frank, died in 1816. History painter, wife of the sculptor Karl Steinhäuser. Works: Queen Esther, Schloss Bellevue, Berlin; Iphigenia, Fräulein von Waldenburg, ib.; Christ and the Woman of Samaria, Infant St. John (1846), Archangel Michael, Schwerin Gallery; Genius of the Vine (1848); Madonna (1862).—Cotta's Kunstbl., 1848; D. Kunstbl., 1857; Dioskuren, 1862.


STEINHEIL, LOUIS CHARLES AUGUSTE, born at Strasburg, June 26, 1814, died in Paris in May, 1885. Genre, portrait, and flower painter, pupil of Decaisne. Has latterly devoted himself to glass painting and church decoration. Medals: 3d class, 1847; 2d class, 1848; 3d class, 1851; L. of Honour, 1860. Works: Consolations, Leonora (1836); Young Virgin presented to Christ (1840); St. Philomena (1841); Materfamilias, My Finger told me so (1845); Fruit and Wine, Interior (1846); Mother