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Amsterdam Museum; Well-Supplied Table, Village Inn, Rotterdam Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 120; Kramm, v. 1582.
STRY, JACOBUS VAN, born at Dordrecht,
Oct. 2, 1756, died there, Feb. 4,
1815. Landscape and animal painter, pupil
of Andreas Cornelis Lens at Antwerp
Academy, then formed himself chiefly
through the study of Paulus Potter and
Aelbert Cuyp. Works: Landscape, Milking
Time, Evening in the Country, Going
to Market, Museum Amsterdam; Cattle
resting on River Bank, Museum Fodor, ib.;
Cows and Sheep by Farm Buildings, Leipsic
Museum; Cows in Pasture, Czernin
Gallery, Vienna.—Immerzeel, iii. 119;
Kramm, v. 1583.
STRYOWSKI, WILHELM, born in Dantzic
in 1834. Genre painter, pupil of Schadow
in Düsseldorf. After visiting Galicia, Holland,
and Paris, settled in Dantzic. Medal
in 1864. Works: Washerwomen surprised
by Rain (1854); Sunday Afternoon in the
Country (1856); Polish Sailors before the
Evening Fire; Boatmen Resting (1860);
Little Wire-Worker; Dancing Cossack
(1861); Skaters; Polish Jews in Synagogue
(1862); Jews Praying; Rendezvous
on Roofs of Dantzic; Wedding Procession
of Galician Jews (1874); Landscape on Vistula
(1882).—Müller, 511.
STUART, GILBERT, born in Narragansett,
Rhode Island,
Dec. 3, 1755, died
in Boston, July 27,
1828. After some
unaided efforts, he
received instruction
from Cosmo Alexander,
a Scotch portrait
painter, whom he accompanied
to Scotland
in 1772. The
death of his master
left Stuart to shift for himself, and after
struggling a while at the University of Glasgow,
he returned home. In 1775 he went
again to England and found a friend and
master in Benjamin West, who employed
him as an assistant. In 1785 he set up a
studio of his own with great success, getting
high prices. In 1788 he visited Dublin and
painted several portraits. In 1792 he returned
to America. Soon after his arrival
in New York, the Duke of Kent offered to
send a ship of war for him if he would go
to Nova Scotia and paint his portrait; but
unwisely, as he afterwards thought, he declined
the offer. After working for two
years in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington,
Stuart settled in Boston, where he
resided the remainder of his life. His portraits
show great insight into character, and
are remarkable for their simplicity of
means. They have great individuality, excellent
balance of light and shade, and generally
pure colour. Among the best are
those of Washington, of whom Stuart was
the painter par excellence. Works: Portrait
of Washington (1796), Martha Washington
(1796), Washington at Dorchester
Heights, General Henry Knox, Josiah
Quincy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;
Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison,
and Monroe, T. Jefferson Coolidge, ib.;
Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Mr. and Mrs.
David Sears, Mrs. William Amory, ib.;
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Revere, John Revere,
ib.; Jared Sparks (1827), Mrs. Parks, Cambridge,
Mass.; Judge Joseph Story, Harvard
University, ib.; Mr. and Mrs. Josiah
Quincy (1806), Edmund Quincy, Dedham,
Mass.; Rev. William Ellery Channing,
George G. Channing, Milton, Mass.; Mr.
and Mrs. George Gibbs, Colonel George
Gibbs, Wolcott Gibbs, Cambridge, Mass.;
Dr. Samuel William Johnson (1792), Mrs.
William Bellamy, Dorchester, Mass.; Commodore
O. H. Perry, Oliver H. Perry,
Lowell, Mass.; Sir John Temple, Mrs. Eliza
B. Temple Winthrop, Robert C. Winthrop,
Brookline, Mass.; Presidents Washington,
John Adams, and Jefferson, and Egbert
Benson (1807), Historical Society, New
York; General Horatio Gates, John R.
Stevens, ib.; Commodore Macdonough, A.