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SELLENY campaigns of 1864, 1866, and 1870. Works : Defence of Castle in Thirty Years' War ; Soldiers bearing their Wounded Command- er, Provinzial Museum, Hanover ; Best after Repulsed Storm(1856); Siege of Breisach (1862); Soldiers in Thirty Years' War dis- tributing Booty, Leip- sic Museum ; Combat in the Woods at Sadowa ; Beginning of Pursuit at Sadowa (1872), National Gallery, Berlin ; Transportation of Prisoners of War (1882), Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Prisoners at Sedan. Jordan (1885), ii. 217 ; Miiller, 488. SELLENY, JOSEF, born at Meidling, near Vienna, j Feb. 2, 1824, died in Vienna, May 22, 1875. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Acad- emy under En- der and Perger. Visited Italy in 1854 ; made a voyage round the world on the Novara in 1857-59 ; and accompanied Archduke Max- imilian to Brazil in 1859, bringing back over a thousand sketches from these two expeditions. President of Vienna Artists' League in 1868. Became insane two years before death. Member of Vienna Academy. Orders : Iron Crown, Mexican Guadeloupe, and Brazilian Rose. Works : Desolate Church-Yard, Near Waidbruck in the Ty- rol, Vienna Museum ; Snow Storm (1852) ; Cape Circello (1855); Kuins of Amphithea- tre at Terracina (1855); Funchalin Madeira (1863); Cape of Good Hope (1864) ; Island of St. Paul (1869); Tahiti (1870); Rock Tem- ple of Mahamalaipur ; Water-colours after Rottmann's Munich Court Garden frescos ; and numerous other landscapes in oil and water-colour. Wurzbach, xxxiv. 58 ; Kunst- Chronik, xi. 135, 156, 190, 206, 217 ; xix. 170 ; Zeitsch. f. b. K, iv. 114 ; xi. 252. SELLIER, CHARLES AUGUSTE, born at Nancy (Meurthe), Dec. 25, 1830, died there, Nov. 26, 1882. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Louis Leborgne and of Leon Cogniet. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1857. Medals : 1865 ; 2d class, 1872. Conservator of the Nancy Museum. Works : A Kitchen (1857), Nancy Museum ; Levite of Ephraim (1864), ib. ; Magdalen (1864), ib.; Death of Leander, Gallic Pris- oner condemned to die of Hunger (1865) ; Last Years of Tiberius in Isle of Caprea, The Ammazatoio at Rome (1867) ; Lost Soul (1868); Italian Souvenir (1869), Nancy Mu- seum ; Graziella (1870) ; Nereid (1872) ; Christ at the Tomb (1875) ; Interior of a Roman Ammazatoio, Led a (1880) ; Black- smith's Shop in Andelys (1881) ; Head of a Negro (1882). Bellier, ii. 491. SELLSTEDT, LARS GUSTAF, born in Sweden in 1819. Portrait painter, self- taught. In 1842 settled in Buffalo, N. Y. First exhibited at the National Academy in 1858 ; elected an A.N.A. in 1871 and N.A. in 1875. One of the founders of the Buffa- lo Academy, of which he was secretary and superintendent in 1862-76, president in 1876, and again superintendent in 1878. Works: Head of Jewish Rabbi (1859); Abandoned ; Quahaug Rock Narragansett, Preparing her Paper for the Club (1879). Portraits: Of the Artist (1871, Academy, ] Buffalo) ; W. G. Fargo (1874) ; George W. Clinton, National Science Rooms, Buffalo ; Mrs. Sellstedt (1882) ; Benjamin Fitch i (1883) ; Brother and Sister -- Portraits (1884), Franklin Locke ; Charles Day (1885). SEMENTI (Semenza), GIOVANNI GIA- COMO, born in Bologna, July 18, 1580, died (?). Bolognese school ; pupil of Cal- vart, afterwards of Guido, and one of his fa- vourite assistants ; went to Rome in service of Cardinal Maurice of Savoy and painted many pictures in manner of Guido. Among his works are : Christ the Redeemer, St 169