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SIEGUMFELDT (1844) ; David and Abishai in Saul's Tent (1845); Emperor Maximilian and Albrecht Dttrer (1848); The Welcome (1851); Trum- peter's Children (1851); Holiday (1852); Reading the Bible, David finding Saul asleep, Provinzial Museum, Hanover ; Sun- day Morning, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam ; Poor Family fed in Rich House ; Soldiers playing Dice ; Children in Studio, Stettin Museum ; Convent Gate ; Patrician In- terior ; Meal-Time ; Welcome Pause (1866) ; Service of Love (1870), Hamburg Gallery ; Fruit Painter (1876), DUsseldorf Gallery ; Birth Day ; Forest House ; Good Treatment Bad Payment (1883). Kunst-Chronik, xix. 24; W. Mttller, DUsseldorf K, 160; Wiegmaun, 225 ; Zeitsch. f. b. K, vi. 149. SIEGUMFELDT, HERMAN CARL, bom near Esrom in North Zealand, Sept. 18, 1833. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy in 1844, and after- wards of Simonsen ; won the small silver medal in 1850, a money prize in 1856, and the travelling prize in 1859 ; broke his arm in Sweden in 1860, which seriously crippled him ; visited in 1863 Brussels, Paris, and Rome. Works : Apple Woman, School Girl with Books (1856) ; Fishermen from North Zealand, Fishermen on the Strand at Even- ing (1857) ; Husbandmen from the Heaths, From the Country (1860) ; Sad Tale from the Sea (1862); Woman and Children (1865); Roman Peasants in Church (1866) ; many portraits (1878-84). He is a portrait paint- er of high rank. Sigurd Mttller, 317 ; Weil- bach, 633. SIEMIRADZKI, HENDRIK, born in government of Grodno, Nov. 15, 1843. His- tory painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Acad- emy and of Piloty in Munich. Visited France and Germany in 1870, and settled in Rome in 1872. Medals : Vienna, 1873 ; Philadel- phia, 1876 ; of honour, Paris, 1878 ; Berlin, 1879 ; Melbourne, 1882 ; L. of Honour, 1878. Member of St. Petersburg, Berlin, Stock- holm, and Rome Academies. Works : Alex- ander's Confidence in Philip (1870); Figure Painting after Poem by Tolstoi (1871) ; Ro- man Orgies (1872) ; Christ and the Sinner (1873); Nero's Torches (1876); Sword Dance ; Woman or Cup (1879) ; Shipwrecked Man Begging ; Pirate's Cave (1881); Nubian For- tune-Teller (1882) ; Cremation of Russian Captain in 10th Century (1883), Moscow Museum ; Summer Night in Pompeii (1884); Nero by the Body of a Christian Martyr, Christ with Martha and Mary (1885) ; fres- cos in Church of Our Saviour, Moscow. Miiller, 490 ; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 401 ; xix. 352, 382 ; Kunst f. Alle, i. 150. SIENA, GUIDO DA. See Guido. SIENA, MATTEO DA. See Matteo di Giovanni. SIGALON, XAVIER, born at Uzi-s (Gard), in 1788 (1790?), died in Rome, Aug. 18, 1837. French school; genre painter, pupil of Monrose at Nimes, later of Souchon and Guorin in Paris. Sent to Rome, when M. Thiers was minis- ter, to copy Michelangelo's Last Judgment, now in the l5cole des Beaux Arts, which cost three and a half years' labour, for which he received 58,000 francs, an indem- nity of 20,000 francs, and a travelling pen- sion of 3,000 francs. Returned to copy other works in Sistiue Chapel, and died of cholera. Medal, 1824 ; L. of Honour, 1831. Works : Death of St. Louis (1815), Baptism of Christ, Cathedral of Nimes ; Holy Ghost descending upon theApostles(1817), Church of Aigues-Mortes ; Young Courtesan (1821), Louvre ; Locusta experimenting with Poi- sons (1824), Portrait of Louis Philippe, Nimes Museum ; Athalie having all the Children of the Blood Royal killed (1827),