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 SYMPATHY Gaul beheads Flaminius at Thrasymene I background, young men armed with bows ; (1882); Trencavel (1884) ; Christ (1886). ' - 1 ^ * J ~ "--* Bellier, ii. 537 ; Larousse, Supplement. SYMPATHY, Briton Riviere, Holloway Institute, Egham, near London ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 11 in. x 3 ft. 2 in. A little girl with a sad face, seated on the stairs, with a dog beside her, rubbing his face against hers in sympathy. Royal Academy, 1878 ; bought by Thomas Taylor, "Wigan, for 800 guineas ; Taylor sale (1883), 2,725. SYMPHORIEN, ST., MARTYRDOM OP, Dominique Ingres, Cathedral of Autun. The martyrdom at Augustodunum of a young with a little book returned Houston Paris : Syndics of the Arquebusiers, Bartholomew van der Heist, Amsterdam Museum. Gaul who had refused to adore the old gods and whom the edict of Diocletian con- demned to death. Salon, 1834. Studies : Isaac Pereire, and Messrs. Haro, Stilrler, and Gatteaux. Ch. Blanc, Life, 101. SYNDICS OF THE ARQUEBUSIERS, j Bartholomew van der Heist, Amsterdam Museum ; canvas, H. 5 ft, 9 in. x 8 ft. 8 in. ; signed, dated 1G57. The four syndics of the archery guild of St. Sebastian of Am- sterdam, dressed in black, are seated round a table covered with a rich cloth. Three of them hold prizes ; the fourth addresses his colleagues. In middle distance, a woman bearing a silver-mounted drinking-horn ; in at left, foreground, a hunting-dog. Study (1 ft. 8 in. x 2 ft. 2 in., dated 1653), Louvre, Paris. Engraved by Hulmer. Reveil, xii. 808 ; Filhol. SYNDICS OF THE CLOTH HALL, Rembrandt, Amsterdam Museum ; canvas, H. 6 ft. x 9 ft.; signed, dated 1661. Five syndics of the Staalhof (Cloth Hall) of Am- sterdam, dressed in black, gathered around a table, with their servant waiting upon them ; four are seated and one is standing in his hand. Taken to in 1815. Engraved by J. W. Kaiser. Etched by De Frey ; Un- ger (1876). Lithographed by Zimmerman. Kugler (Crowe), ii. 369 ; Cat. Am- sterdam Mus.; Mollett, Rembrandt, 72 ; Vosmaer, 309, 495 ; Smith, vii. 61 ; Mag. of Art (1886), ix. 257. SZEKELY DE ADAM- AS, BERTALAN, born at Klausenburg, Transylva- nia, in 1835. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Ftihrich, Rahl, and Waldm tiller, lat- er in Munich of Piloty, and studied in Brussels, Antwerp, and Paris. Or- der of Francis Joseph, 18G7. Works : Flight of Charles VH., National Museum, Munich ; Doboczy killing his Wife, Ladislaus V. and his Tutor, Pesth Museum ; Finding of Body of Louis H. of Hungary (1860) ; Battle of Mohiics (1866) ; Portrait of Francis Deak ; Women of Erlau defending City against the Turks (1867) ; The Orphan, Leda, The Nun (1871) ; Storm, The Widow (1872) ; Flight of Emmerich Tokoly, Rendezvous, Sisters of Charity at Sick-Bed (1873) ; The Dancer, Zriny at Szigetvar (National Exhibition, Buda-Pesth, 1885). Wurzbach, xlii. 16 ; Allgem. K Chr., ix. 623. 250