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(1847), Nantes Museum; Soap-Bubbles (1847); Young Mother, Morning (1848); Woman and her Child, Gillyflowers (1849).—Larousse; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 589.


STEINICKE, HEINRICH, born at Leer, East Friesland, May 5, 1825. Landscape painter, pupil of Hanover Polytechnic School; then studied at The Hague, and since 1852 in Düsseldorf; has made frequent sketching tours to Holland, Norway, Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. Works: Fjord in Norway (1855); Chiem Lake, Bavarian Mountain Landscape (1858), Stettin Museum; Ober Lake (1859), Courtray Museum; Approaching Storm (1860); Evening in Mountains (1862), Emperor Wilhelm; Evening on the Heath (1864), Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Noon Rest on Mountain Lake; German Landscape.—Müller, 505.


STEINKOPF, GOTTLOB FRIEDRICH VON, born in Stuttgart in 1779, died there in 1861. Landscape and history painter, son and pupil of Johann Friedrich Steinkopf (1737-1825, court painter in Stuttgart in 1801). Went to Vienna in 1799, and to Rome in 1807, where he was intimate with Koch, Schick, and Overbeck, and took Claude Lorrain and Poussin for his models; lived in Vienna in 1814-21, then in Stuttgart, where he became instructor at the Art School in 1829, professor in 1833, director in 1845, and retired in 1855. Honorary member of Berlin Academy in 1825, of Vienna Academy in 1836. Würtemberg Crown Order. Works: Morning of Sacrifice (1810); Return of Hercules from Lion Hunt (1812); Italian Vintage, Ulysses and Nausicaä (1818-20); Evening in Italy (1828); Cleobis and Biton (1833); Suabian Spring (1839); Elysian Fields (1843), Stuttgart Museum; Views near Stuttgart (1827), Villa Rosenstein near Stuttgart.—Wurzbach, xxxviii. 106.



STEINLE, EDUARD, born in Vienna, July 2, 1810, died at Frankfort, Sept. 19, 1886. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy and of Küpelwieser; went in 1828 to Rome, where Overbeck and Veit befriended him; returned in 1834, visited Frankfort in 1837, studied fresco painting in Munich under Cornelius in 1838, settled in Frankfort in 1842, and became professor at the Städel Institute there in 1850. Next to Overbeck, with whose style he has identified himself, and to Führich, he is the most distinguished representative of religious art in Germany. Member of Berlin, Vienna, Munich, and Hanau Academies. Gold medal for art and science; gold medal, Paris, and L. of Honour, 1855; Order of Leopold, 1860; do. of Francis Joseph, etc. Oil paintings: St. Luke painting the Virgin (1840), Basle Museum; Solomon's Judgment (1840), Emperors Albrecht I. and Ferdinand III. (1841), Römer, Frankfort; Sibylla Tiburtina (1848), Städel Gallery, ib.; Madonna (1854), St. Leonard's, ib.; Visitation (1841), Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; do. (1848), Carlsruhe Gallery; Madonna Fontana (1854), Vienna Museum; Castle Ward (1854), Weimar Museum; Madonna (1856), Speyer Cathedral; St. Joseph (1859), St. Mary's, Aix-la-Chapelle; Warder of Tower (1858), Fiddler in Tower (1862), Lorelei (1864), Adam and Eve (1867), Schack Gallery, Munich; Adoration of the Cross (1885). Water-colours: Madonnas, Saints, and many biblical and religious subjects; illustrations to German Fairy Tales (1861-74); do. to Dante (1835), Shakespeare (1868-72); do. to Wolfram von Eschenbach (1875); five scenes from Parcival (1884); allegories, landscapes, etc. In fresco: The Eight Beatifications (1838-40), Chapel of Castle Rheineck, Rhenish Prussia (cartoons for do., Städel Gallery, Frankfort); Choir of Angels (1843-46), Cologne Cathedral (cartoons in Carlsruhe Gallery); ceiling and wall paintings (1857-58), St. Egidius, Münster; scenes in History of Art and Civilization in Cologne (1860-63), Staircase, Cologne Museum; seven pictures