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 1768. German school; portrait painter, in the style of Denner; became court painter to the Empress Maria Theresa in 1749. Works: Portrait of himself, Louvre; do., Bamberg Gallery; do., Gotha Museum; do. (1759), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; do., Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Portraits of Two Girls, Museum, ib.; Portraits of a Youth and a Girl, Old Man, Old Woman, of himself, Dresden Gallery; Bust of Old Man, Christiania Gallery; do. of Old Lady, Male portrait, Stuttgart Museum.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 564.

SEIFFERT, KARL (FRIEDRICH), born at Grüneberg, Silesia, Sept. 6, 1809. Landscape painter, pupil of Berlin Academy and of Biermann. Made sketching tours in Switzerland and Tyrol, and in Italy and Sicily in 1846-47. Settled in Berlin. Assisted Pape in Decoration of the Berlin New Museum. Works: Cefalu in Sicily (1850); Lake Nemi (1851); Gravedona on Lake Como (1859); Blue Grotto in Capri (1860), National Gallery, Berlin; Strait of Messina (1863).—Jordan (1885), ii. 217.

SEISENEGGER, JACOB, born in Austria in 1505, died at Linz in 1567. History and portrait painter, who may in some respects be considered as the founder of modern painting in Austria. In 1530 he painted Charles V. at Augsburg, in 1532 at Bologna, and in 1531 became court painter to Ferdinand I., whom, in 1532, he followed to Vienna, and in 1550 to Augsburg. Between 1535 and 1545 he visited Spain and Belgium, and twice the court of Charles V.; settled in Linz about 1558. Works: Two portraits of Charles V. (1532, 1550), Vienna Museum; portraits of Ferdinand I., Queen Anna, Philip of Spain, Ferdinand of Tyrol, Philippine, Welser, two bust portraits of Charles V., Ambras Collection, Vienna; Male portrait (1568), Weimar Museum.—W. & W., ii. 507; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. 153.

SEITZ, ALEXANDER MAXIMILIAN, born in Munich in 1811. History and genre painter, pupil of Cornelius in Munich. Went to Rome in 1835. Works: Joseph sold by his Brethren (1829); Madonna Enthroned; St. Catharine of Alexandria; Mater Amabilis; Christ blessing Little Children; St. Joseph and the Infant Christ; Christ with the Wise and Foolish Virgins, and Return of the Prodigal, Santa Trinità de' Monti, Rome; genre pictures of Roman life.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 804.

SEITZ, ANTON, born at Roth, near Nuremberg, in 1830. Genre painter, pupil of Friedrich Wagner and Reindel in Nuremberg, and in 1853-63 of Flüggen in Munich, where he settled. Gold Medal in 1869. Works: Policeman and Country Girl (1856); Miser (1860); Garret Studies (1862); Peasants and Quack; Alchemist; Music Rehearsal; King of the Shooters (1874, D. W. Powers, Rochester, N. Y.); Market Scenes; Photographer in the Country; Wayfarers (1881), New Pinakothek, Munich; Rustic Letter-Writer, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; A Good Friend (1883).—Regnet, ii. 262.

SEITZ, LUDWIG, born in Rome in 1843. History painter, son and pupil of Alexander Max Seitz, having first studied under Cornelius and Overbeck; imitates the old Italian masters, for the reproduction of whose style he shows considerable talent. Work: Deluge.—Seubert, iii. 296; Müller, 487.

SEITZ, OTTO, born in Munich, Sept. 3. 1846. History painter, pupil of Piloty. Medals in Vienna, and in Philadelphia (1876). Works: Murder of Rizzio (1869); Loose Leaves—Dead Love (1871); Happy Hours (1873); Faun and Nymph (1875); Neptune (1876); Edward IV.'s Sons; Prometheus Bound.—Seubert, iii. 296; Müller, 487.

SELL, CHRISTIAN, born in Altona, Aug. 14, 1831. History and genre painter, pupil of his father and in 1851-56 of Düsseldorf Academy under Hildebrand and Schadow; accompanied German army in the