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 STEY Amsterdam Museum ; Well-Supplied Table, Village Inn, Rotterdam Museum. Immer- zeel, iii. 120 ; Kramm, v. 1582. STEY, JACOBUS VAN, born at Dor- drecht, Oct. 2, 1756, died there, Feb. 4, 1815. Landscape and animal painter, pu- pil of Andreas Cornelia Lens at Antwerp Academy, then formed himself chiefly through the study of Paulus Potter and Aelbert Cuyp. Works : Landscape, Milk- ing Time, Evening in the Country, Going to Market, Museum Amsterdam ; Cattle resting on lliver Bank, Museum Fodor, ib. ; Cows and Sheep by Farm Buildings, Leip- sic Museum ; Cows in Pasture, Czernin Gallery, Vienna. Immerzeel, iii. 119 ; Kramm, v. 1583. STEYOWSKI, WILHELM, born in Dant- zic in 1834. Genre painter, pupil of Schadow in Diisseldorf. After visiting Galicia, Hol- land, and Paris, settled in Dantzic. Medal in 18G4. Works : Washerwomen surprised by Eain (1854) ; Sunday Afternoon in the Country (185G) ; Polish Sailors before the Evening Fire ; Boatmen Besting (I860) ; Little Wire-AVorker ; Dancing Cossack (1861) ; Skaters ; Polish Jews in Syna- gogue (18G2) ; Jews Praying ; Eendezvous on Eoofs of Dantzic ; Wedding Procession of Galician Jews (1874) ; Landscape on Vis- tula (1882). Miiller, 511. STUART, GILBERT, born in Narragan- sett, Ehode Island, Dec. 3, 1755, died in Boston, July 27, 1828. After some unaided efforts, he received instruction from Cosmo Alexan- der, a Scotch portrait painter, whom he ac- companied to Scot- land in 1772. The death of his master left Stuart to shift for himself, and after struggling a while at the University of Glas- gow, he returned home. In 1775 he went again to England and found a friend and master in Benjamin West, who employed him as an assistant. In 1785 he set up a studio of his own with great success, getting high prices. In 1788 he visited Dublin and painted several portraits. In 1792 he re- turned to America. Soon after his arrival in New York, the Duke of Kent offered to send a ship of war for him if he would go to Nova Scotia and paint his portrait ; but unwisely, as he afterwards thought, he de- clined the offer. After working for two years in New York, Philadelphia, and Wash- ington, Stuart settled in Boston, where he resided the remainder of his life. His por- traits show great insight into character, and are remarkable for their simplicity of means. They have great individuality, ex- cellent balance of light and shade, and gen- erally pure colour. Among the best are those of Washington, of whom Stuart was the painter par excellence. Vorks : Por- trait of Washington (1796), Martha Wash- ington (1796), Washington at Dorchester Heights, General Henry Kuox, Josiah Quincy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madi- son, and Monroe, T. Jefferson Coolidge, ib. ; Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Mr. and Mrs. David Sears, Mrs. William Amory, ib.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Revere, John Eevere, ib. ; Jared Sparks (1827), Mrs. Parks, Cam- bridge, Mass.; Judge Joseph Story, Har- vard University, ib. ; Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Quincy (1806), Edmund Quincy, Dedham, Mass.; Eev. William Ellery Churning, George G. Channing, Milton, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. George Gibbs, Colonel George Gibbs, Wolcott Gibbs, Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. Samuel William Johnson (1792), Mrs. William Bellamy, Dorchester, Mass.; Com- modore O. H. Perry, Oliver H. Perry, Lowell, Mass. ; Sir John Temple, Mrs. Eliza B. Temple Winthrop, Eobert C. Winthrop, Brookline, Mass.; Presidents Washington, John Adams, and Jefferson, and Egbert Benson (1807), Historical Society, New York ; General Horatio Gates, John E. Stevens, ib.; Commodore Macdouough, A. 238