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 Philistine soldiers to seize him; a barber is cutting off his hair, and at left two children have his sword and the ass's jawbone.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Landon.

Subject treated also by Lucas Cranach, Dresden and Augsburg Museums; Adrien van der Werff, Sans Souci, Potsdam; Gerard Honthorst, City Hall, Dordrecht; Gotfried Schalken, Bordeaux Museum; Jacopo Sementi, ib.; Eugène Delacroix, M. Daubigny, Paris; Louis Marie Baader (Salon, 1857); Ferdinand Humbert (Salon, 1873).

SAMSON'S WEDDING, Rembrandt, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 4 ft. × 5 ft. 10 in.; signed, dated 1638. Samson's wife (portrait of Saskia) seated at table with other guests, before a dais, in a hall richly hung with tapestry; at left, Samson proposing his enigma to the Philistines, among whom are musicians with instruments. Engraved by Massaloff.—Vosmaer, 80, 450; Bode, Studien, 443, 568.

SAMSON VICTORIOUS, Guido Reni, Bologna Gallery; canvas, H. 8 ft. 1 in. × 6 ft. 9 in. Samson, nearly nude, after battle quenches his thirst with water from the jaw-bone of an ass with which he has slain a thousand Philistines. Duplicate of picture in Turin Gallery. Engraved by Bolognini; Tomba.—Pinac. di Bologna, Pl. 6; Lavice, 12, 410.

SAMUEL, INFANT, Sir Joshua Reynolds, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 2 ft. 10 in. × 2 ft. 3 in. Infant Samuel, full-length, kneeling at prayer, with a ray of light falling upon him. Exhibited at Royal Academy in 1776; bequeathed by Lord Farnborough in 1838. Engraved by J. Dean; J. Lucas; and others. Duplicates in Dulwich Gallery, Cobham Hall, and other collections. Copy by J. R. Powell at Somerby, seat of Earl of Normanton, mistaken for an original by Waagen, who calls it the finest example he knows of the picture.—Pulling, 59; Waagen, Art Treasures, iii. 26.

Samson and Delilah, Rembrandt, Cassel Gallery.

SAMUEL APPEARING TO SAUL, Salvator Rosa, Louvre; canvas, H. 8 ft. 11 in. × 6 ft. 3 in. The shade of Samuel evoked by the Witch of Endor, who stirs the fire on a tripod; at left, Saul, prostrate, raises his eyes to Samuel; in background, behind Samuel, the two soldiers of Saul, stricken with fear; behind the witch, skeletons, owls, and fantastic forms. Collection of Louis XIV. Engraved by Guttemberg.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Musée royal; Landon, Musée, ix. Pl. 18; Filhol, xi. Pl. 67.

SANCHEZ DE CASTRO, JUAN, flourished at Seville, middle of 15th century, died after 1516. Spanish school; painted in 1454, under influence of the Van Eyck school, pictures for the Cathedral of Seville, and in 1484 a St. Christopher in fresco, in S. Juliano, repainted in 1775. He was the first painter of note in the school of Andalusia.—Stirling, i. 81; Cean Bermudez.

SANCHEZ COELLO, ALONSO, born at