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PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.


in Saxony, 1724. She was the pupil of lier father, Georg Lisiewski, and lived for some time at ihe Hajrue, where she became a member of tlie Pictura Society in 1767. She died at Berlin in 1794.

SASONOFF, W.iSSiLY Kondeatiewitsch. Rus- sian painter ; bom in 1789 at Gomel (Mohileff), and studied at the St. Petersburg Academy under OugrumofF. His picture of 'The Grand Duke Dmitri Donskoi after Koulikovo ' is in the Hermit- age at St. Petersburg. He died in 1870.

SASS, Henry, portrait painter, son of an artist, was born in London in 1788. His first work was the 'Descent of Ul^'sses into Hell,' and in 1816 he went to Rome. He never, however, obtained much reputation as an artist, though be was very success- ful as an elementary teacher. Many of the chief English painters of the 19th century passed through his school. He died in 1844. (See ' Reminiscences,' by W. P. Frith ; London, 1887.)

SASSE, Richard, a water-colour painter, born in 1774, exhibited landscapes at the Academy from 1791 to 1813. In 1811 he was appointed teacher to the Princess Charlotte, and landscape painter to the Prince Regent. In 1815 he travelled on the Continent, and eventually settled in Paris, where he died in 1849. He was a cousin of Henry Sass, but lengthened his name by an e. There are examples of his work at South Kensington.

SASSETTA. See Stefano.

SASSl, Giovanni Battista, flourislied at Milan in the 18th century, was a pupil of Solimena, in Naples, but returned in 1715 to Milan, where he painted several altar-pictures, and completed some pictures left unfinished by Pietro Giraldi.

SASSOFERATU. See Salvi.

SASSOLI, Fabiano, a painter upon glass, who flourished at Arezzo in the 15th century. His son, Stagio, excelled his father in the same art, and was a collaborateur with Domenico Pecori, and later with the famous Guillaume de Marseilles.

SASSONE, II. See Mengs, Anton Rafael.

SATTLER, JoHANN Michael, born at Neuberg, in Austria, in 1786, was a pupil at the Vienna Academy, but settled at Salzburg. He painted panoramas, which he exhibited in the chief German towns. He died at Mattern, near Salzburg, in 1847.

SAUBERLICH, Lorenz, a German engraver on wood, who, according to Professor Christ, pub- lished some wood-cuts at Wittemberg in the year 1599. He used a cipher composed of an L. and an S. He is supposed to have died in 1613.

SAUERWEID, Alexander, Russian painter and etcher; bom at Kurhmd in 1783; studied at the Dresden Academy ; in 1814 the Emperor Alexander summoned him to St. Petersburg. He painted battle-pieces somewhat in the stjdo of Horace Vemet, and he also published several effective etchings of cavalrj* and cavalry skirmishes, the war scenes dealing with the canipaigns of 1813 and 1814. He died at St. Petersburg "in 1844.

SAUNDERS, George. The artistic work that brings this eminent architect within the scope of ' Bryan's Dictionary ' was chiefly a series of draw- ings he made of the bridges of Middlesex in 1825 and 1826, when with other magistrates he had to inspect them. He also produced a fine elevation for the extension of the British Museum, designed m 1804. His architectural work no longer appears at the Museum, as the building he erected was removed in 1852. He was a great authority on brick architecture, and made several drawings of the brick churches at Verona. He was born in 1762, spent most of his life in London, and died in 1839.

SAUNDERS, Joseph, an English miniature painter, working in London towards the end of the 18th century. He had an extensive practice, and was employed principally as a painter of ladies' portraits. 'From 1778 to 1797 he exhibited occa- sionally at the Academy. His son, R. Saonders, practised the same art

SADNIER, Noel, studied under Pils and his father, and was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon. He painted genre subjects. He died in 1890, at the ace of forty-two.

SAURA, MosEN Domingo, a Spanish painter of the 17th century, born at Lucena, in Valencia. On the death of his wife he became a priest, and devoted himself with much success to the art of painting. His works are numerous at Valencia.

SAUT.4I, Paul Emile, French painter ; born at Amiens, January 29, 1842 ; came to Paris in 1860 and entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts ; studied with Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre, and from 1865 to 1870 lived and worked in Italy. His works exhibited at the Salon dealt mainly with scenes of monastic life, such as : ' Couvent de San Benedetto,' ' Pelerins devant la Chapelle de San Pietro,' ' Interieur de Convent,' &o. He obtained a medal in 1870, a second-class medal in 1870, a third-class medal at the Exhibition of 1878, and a gold medal in 1889. In 1885 he received the Legion of Honour. He died in 1901.

SAUTERLEUTHE, Joseph, a celebrated painter upon glass, born at Weingarten in 1796. He was a pupil of Isopi, and began his career in the china factory of Ludwigsburg, but in 1812 went to Nuremberg to perfect himself in the art of glass- painting. In 1837 he painted twelve windows for Prince Thum-and-Taxis at Ratisbon, and, jointly with Vortel of Munich, he executed the windows in the hall of the Minnesanger in the Landsberg Schloss at Meiningen. Fine examples of his art are preserved in the Hertel Collection at Nuremberg, consisting of paintings on glass after Albrecht Diirer's 'Life of the Virgin.' He died at Nuremberg in 1843.

SAUTOY, Jacques L^on du, French painter; born in Paris, October 18, 1817 ; for a long time he held the Directorship of the Art School at Fontainebleau ; and here he died on September 22, 1849.

S.UVAGE,AsToiNE,called Lemire the yodnger, to distinguish him from his father, Gabriel Charles Sauvage, called Lemire. He was a French painter of history and portraits. He was born at Lun6- ville, and died in the last quarter of the 18th cen- tury. His wife, nee Sophie Brinisholtz, was also a painter.

SAUVAGE, Jean Baptiste, a French painter of the 17th century. In the museum at Valenciennes there is by him a portrait of Jean Baptiste Rousseau.

SAUVAGE, Joseph Gr^goire, a Flemish miniature painter and enameller of the 18th century, who was painter to Duke Charles of Lorraine for seventeen years. On the death of his patron he was reduced to great poverty, and is said to have died in the hospital of St. Peter at Brussels.

SAUVAGE, PiAT Joseph, was born at Tournai in 1744, and studied at the Academy at Antwerp. He essayed several styles of painting, and finally adopted that of bas-relief, in which he became eminent. He settled for a considerable time in Paris, where his works were in high estimation.

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