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STORY, GEORGE HENRY, born in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 23, 1835. Portrait and genre painter, pupil in New Haven of Professor Bail, and of Charles Hine, portrait painter; studied in Europe one year and sketched in Cuba. Elected an A.N.A. in 1875. Studio in New York. Ideal works: Echoes from the Sea (1876); Student of Nature (1878); Young Mother (1879); Indian Encampment—Orchard Beach (1881); Election Returns (Smith's College), Winning Hand (1883); Broken Vase, Still Trusting (1884); Our Father who art in Heaven (1885); The Fishermen (1886). Portraits: Whitelaw Reid, Lotus Club, New York; Governor of Villa-Clara, Villa-Clara Gallery, Madrid, Spain; Mrs. Ann S. Stephens (1879).

STOTHARD, THOMAS, born in London, Aug. 17, 1755, died there, April 27, 1834. Apprenticed in 1770 to a designer for brocaded silks, then tried book illustration, and in 1777 entered schools of Royal Academy; elected A.R.A. in 1791, and R.A. in 1794, and in 1810 was appointed librarian. Although best known by his book illustrations, of which he made upwards of 5,000, he painted some good subject pieces, the most ambitious of which is Intemperance, on the staircase of Burghley House, Northamptonshire. Other works: Greek Vintage, Woodland Dance, Cupid and Calypso, Diana and Nymphs, Cupids preparing for the Chase, Myth of Narcissus, Canterbury Pilgrims, National Gallery.—Bray; Life (London, 1851); Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Redgrave; Sandby, ii. 303.

STOTT, WILLIAM, born at Oldham, England; contemporary. Portrait and genre painter, pupil in Paris of Gérôme. Medal, 3d class, 1882. Works: Midday Dream, Knitter (1881); Ferryman, Bathing (1882); Children's Round, Grandpa's Study (1883); The Two Sisters (1884); My Father and My Mother, Moonrise (1885); Spring Day (1886).

STOTZ, OTTO, born at Ludwigsburg, Würtemberg, in 1805. Animal painter, studied in Munich. Settled in Stuttgart, later in Vienna. Works: Review in Stuttgart; Racing at Cannstadt; Catching Horses in Wallachia (1841), Vienna Museum; Arabian full-blooded Horses (1852); Horses in Stable, Return from Hare Hunt (1853); Arab Horses in Stud at Babolna (1854); English Stallions, Horses from Imperial Stud at Kisbér (1858); Horses in Stable (1870); etc.—Wurzbach, xxxix. 202.

STRACK, LUDWIG PHILIPP, born at Hayna, Aug. 10, 1761, died in Oldenburg, Jan. 27, 1836. Landscape painter, pupil in Cassel of Tischbein, copying chiefly Ruisdael and Wouverman. Entered service of Duke of Oldenburg in 1783; returned to Cassel in 1786; visited Italy in 1788; became court painter in Cassel in 1794; went to Eutin in 1797, and to Oldenburg in 1803. Works: Sicilian Landscape (1796), Oldenburg Gallery; Ruins of Ancient Theatre in Taormina, Ruins of Pæstum (1803); Landscape with Shepherds, do. with Ruins (2), Cassel Gallery.—Nagler, xvii. 439; N. Necr. der D. (1836), i. 86.

STRADANUS, JAN, born at Bruges in 1523 (1530?), died at Florence in 1605. Flemish school. Real name Johannes or Hans van der Straet. History painter, first instructed by his father, then pupil of M. Franck and Pieter Aertszen; then went to Italy, and in Rome studied especially Raphael and Michelangelo, vying with Daniele da Volterra and Salviati in the execution of some pictures for the Belvedere. Called to Naples by Don Juan d'Austria, he decorated his palace with paintings, and accompanied him to Flanders, but soon returned, and settled at Florence, where he was called Giovanni della Strada, and worked con-