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the emperor, whose portrait he painted, as also portraits of members of his family. Called to Rome in 1627, he painted Pope Urban VII.; was in the emperor's service at Innsbruck in 1652-53, and returned to Florence in 1653. Friend of Rubens and Van Dyck. Works: Portraits of Vittoria della Rovere, Ferdinand II. de' Medici, Eleonora Gonzaga (1620), Christian V. of Denmark as Crown Prince, Emperor Ferdinand II., Prince Mattias de' Medici, Margherita de' Medici, Grand Duke Cosimo III. as a Child, Pandolfo Ricasoli, Artist's own Portrait, Grand Ducal Family as Holy Family, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Penitent Magdalen, St. Margaret, War and Peace (1638), The Florentine Senate swearing Allegiance, Male Portrait in Swiss Costume, Portraits of Galileo (1636), of Puliciani, of Claudia de' Medici, Uffizi, ib.; Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere, Turin Gallery; Archduchess Claudia, Vienna Museum; Portrait of Young Lady, Berlin Museum; Portrait of Galileo, Trinity College, Cambridge; do., Lord Methuen, Corsham Court, England; Portrait of Alessandro Farnese, Royal Institute, Edinburgh. His brother Jan was his pupil, and accompanied him to Vienna, where he settled and was patronized by the emperor. Work: Portrait of a Matron, Vienna Museum. Another brother, Cornelis, was also in the emperor's service.—Baldinucci, Opere, xii. 13; Fétis, Les Artistes belges, i. 257; Kramm, v. 1588; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 300; Michiels, ix. 25; Rooses (Reber), 375; Van den Branden, 960.
SUVÉE, JOSEPH BENOIT, born in
Bruges, Jan. 3, 1743, died in Rome, Feb. 9,
1807. Flemish school; history and portrait
painter, pupil of Matthias de Visch, then in
Paris at the old St. Luke's corporation and
at the Academy under Bachelier; won the
2d grand prix de Rome in 1768, and the 1st
in 1771 in competition with David, and studied
in Rome (1772-78) under Vien; after
his return to Paris he was made member of
the Academy in 1780, adjunct professor in
1781, professor and director of the French
Academy in Rome in 1792, but being imprisoned
during the revolutionary disturbances
did not enter upon this position until
1801. Works: Death of Admiral Coligny
(1787), Louvre; St. Francis de Sales, Versailles
Gallery; Tancred wounded recognizes
Clorinda, Amiens Museum; Portrait
of M. Trouard, Besançon Museum; Tancred
rescued by Clorinda, Nantes Museum; Invention
of Drawing (1798), Artist's Portrait,
two other portraits, Bruges Academy; Minerva
among Rustics
(1776), Ghent
Museum; Vestal
making Fire descend
from Heaven;
Birth of the
Virgin; Mother of
the Gracchi. His
wife (née Charlotte
Louise Rameau) painted figures and miniatures.—Immerzeel,
iii. 122; Michiels, x.
538; Weale, Cat. Bruges Acad., 89; Bellier,
ii. 534; Jal, 1159.
SUYDAM, JAMES A., born in New York in 1817, died at North Conway, N. H., Sept. 15,1865. Landscape painter, studied under Minor C. Kellogg, with whom he travelled through Greece and Turkey; on returning to America worked in the studios of Durand and Kensett. Elected N.A. in 1856. He was instrumental in building the present Academy in New York, and was its treasurer until his death. He bequeathed to it the pictures known as the Suydam Collection. Works: View on Long Island, William A. Reese; Hook Mountain on the Hudson, S. Clift; New London Lighthouse—Twilight, Olyphant Collection.—Tuckerman, 540.
SVOBODA, EDUARD, born in Vienna,
Nov. 14, 1814. Genre and portrait painter,
pupil of Vienna Academy and of Friedrich
Schilcher; in great demand as a portrait
painter in Vienna; has decorated in fresco
several churches in Bohemia and Hungary.
Works: Va banque, Vienna Museum; Distribution
of Wood (1845); Protest (1847);