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 with many other works of art in the possession of tlie Duke of Modena, afterwards came into the collection of the King of Naples. In the Palazzo Pubblico, at Modena, he painted the history of Coriolanus, and seven emblematical figures, in which he emulated Correggio ; and in the cathedral a 'St. Geminiano resuscitating a dead Child,' which used often to be taken for a production of that master. His works are extremely rare ; in con- sequence, it is said, of his propensity for gaming, in which he wasted his substance and time. His <ieath is said to have been occasioned by distress of mind, caused by losing in one night more than he was able to pay. It took place in 1616, at Parma.

St. John. Flight into Egypt. Holy Family. Holy Family. Cupid with au Hour-glass. St. Gemigu.ano. Coriolauus and his mother. St, Jerome. St. John the Baptist. The Dinner at Simon's House. The Holy Family. Charity. St. Sebastian succoured by St. Irene. The Tribute-money. Christ presented to the People. The Massacre of the Innoceats. Cupid. Several Portraits. Holy Family. Christ borne to the Tomb. The Entombment. The Last Supper. A Pieta. Descent from the Cross. The Disciples at Emmaus. The Entombment. Darmstadt Gallery. Dresden. Gallery. Florence. Fitti Palace. „ UJ/hi. Glasgow. Gallery. Modena. Cathedral. „ Muuicipio. ,- Gallery. Naples. Jfuscum. Paris. Parma Venice. Vienna. Louvre. Jluseum. Academy. Galliry.

SCHIERTZ, August Ferdi.vand, painter, born at Leipsio in 1804, began in 1830 to study art, and painted genre, historical, and religious pictures. His best works are: 'Mortality,' in the Museum at Leipsic ; an ' Adoration of the Kings,' in the church of Bosenstiidt ; the ' Descent of the Holy Ghost,' for the church at Podelwitz. He was much em- ploj'ed in the restoration of old pictures. He died at Niederfahre, near Meissen, in 1878.

SCHIESL, Ferdinand, engraver, born at Munich in 1775, was a pupil of Mettenleiter. He drew caricatures and engraved vignettes for books. He died in 1820.

SCHIEVELBEINE, F. A. H. This German artist devoted the greater part of his time to architecture and sculpture, but, in his early career, he received the Grand Prize at Berlin for painting. Be was born at Berlin in 1817, and was a pupil of the local Academy, afterwards entering the fitudio of Prof.'Ssor Wichmann. His principal commission was the work he executed at St. Petersburg in the rebuilding of the Winter Palace, and in the alteration carried out to St, Isaac's Cathedral. His statuary at Konigsberg, and the frieze in the National Gallery at Berlin, represent his best work in sculpture. He painted two im- portant pictures, one called 'Winter Evening' and the other ' Summer Evening,' and he died in Russia in 1867.

SCHIFFER, Anton, landscape painter, was born at Gratz in 1811. He was a student of the Aca- demy at Vienna. His best works are : 'A Mountain Panorama,' and 'View of the Muhlsturzliiirner, near Berchtesgaden ; ' ' View from the Schafberg, near Ischl ; ' ' View of the Schneeberg, in Lower Austria.' He died in 1876.

SCHILBACH, J— Heinrich, landscape painter, was born at Barchfeld in 1798. He studied at Darmstadt, and in 182.H travelled in Italy, making many sketches, which furnished him with motives for finished oil-pictures. In 1828 he was appointed court scene-painter at Darmstadt, Among his best known landscapes are, a 'View of Mayence,' a ' View of Rome,' and two studies of Roman scenery in the ThorvvaUlsen Museum at Copenhagen. He has left a considerable number of etchings.

SCHILCHER, Anton von, engraver and painter, was born at Mindelheim in 1796. He studied at Munich, and entering the Bavarian army went with General Heydegger to Greece. He drew and painted military and genre picture*. He died at Paros in 1828.

SCHILUER von BABINBERG, Johann, an early German painter, a native of Oppenheim. He was a contemporary of ' Master Wilhelm,' and about 1382 was engaged to paint the high altar of Frankfort cathedral.

SCHILDKROTE (The Turtle). See Danks.

SCHILGEN, PiiiLiPP Anton, painter, born at Osnaburgh in 1793, studied at Diisseldorf under Cornelius, with whom he went to Munich in 1825. He executed some scenes from the Tragedies of iEschylus, in the Palace, after drawings by Schwan- thaler. In the JIunicn New Pinakothek hangs his ' Rape of Helen,' painted in oil after a cartoon by Cornelius. He died in Munich in 1857.

SCHILLER, Johann Felix von, landscape iniinter, born at Breslau in 1805, was educated for the legal profession, but afterwards devoted him- self to art, which he studied at Munich, and made the beauties of the Bavarian highlands his theme. He died at Munich in 1852.

SCHILLING, Georq, bom at Unterthingau, in Suabia, in 1785. He painted ten landscapes, deal- ing with scenes in Greek life, in the palace at Munich. They are after drawings in water-colour by Rottmann. SchilUng died at Unterthingau in 1839.

SCHILLING, Hans, a German illuminator and calligraphist of the 15th century, known by a rhymed paraphrase of the Bible in 50,000 verses, which he enriched with 515 grotesquely designed but finely coloured miniatures. He was a native of Hagenau.

SCHILT, Lonis Pierre, born in Paris, Septem- ber 11, 1790, was one of the most celebrated of the painters upon Sevres porcelain. His father was a vivandier of the republican army, and Schilt was brought up entirely by his mother, who appren- ticed him at the age of fourteen to the china- painter Constant. His master treated him kindly, putting him into the way of earning small sums for himself by painting on common pottery, and eventually he passed into the atelier of Lefevre. He here attracted the attention of the painter Paris, who advised him to devote himself entirely to flower-painting, and in accordance with this counsel he began to attend Jussieu's courses at the Museum, with the result that he became an accomplished botanist. In 1822 he obtained employment at the royal manufactory at Sevres, and worked there with equal assiduity and success until his death in 1859. Nine years previously he had been made a Knight of the Legion of Honour at the solicita-