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 SERF EMANCIPATION, Edward Armitage, London; canvas, H. 5 ft. 10 in. × 10 ft. An Anglo-Saxon noble on his death-bed, surrounded by his family and friends, at right, giving freedom to his slaves, who are grouped at left. In foreground a scribe writes down the names of the liberated. Royal Academy, 1877.

SERMON ON THE MOUNT, Claude Lorrain. See Tabor, Mount.

SERRE (Serra), MICHEL GASPARD JACQUES, born at Tarragona, Spain, Jan. 10, 1658, died at Marseilles, Oct. 9, 1733. He fled from home when only eight years old, went to Marseilles, was received into the Chartreuse Convent and taught to paint; in time he made his way to Rome, and after hard study returned to Marseilles in 1676; became a citizen in 1690, and a member of the Academy in 1704. During the plague at Marseilles in 1720 Serre performed invaluable services and won the gratitude of everybody. The Museum of Marseilles possesses two large pictures by him illustrative of the city during the plague, and many religious paintings.—Chennevières, Artistes provinciaux, ii. 201.

SERRES, DOMINIC, born at Auch, Gascony, in 1722, died in London, Nov. 6, 1793. Designed for the church, but ran away to sea, and became master of a vessel which was captured in 1752 by a British frigate. Released on parole in England, he turned his attention to art and became a successful marine painter. He was one of the foundation members of the Royal Academy (1768), of which he was appointed librarian in 1792, and was marine painter to George III. Works: George III. reviewing the Fleet at Portsmouth (4 pieces), and Sea-Piece (1789), Hampton Court. His son, John Thomas Serres (1759-1825), was also a marine painter.—Redgrave; Law, Hist. Cat. Hampton Court; Sandby, i. 104.

SERVIN, AMÉDÉE ÉLIE, born in Paris; contemporary. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Drolling. Lives in Villiers-sur-Morin. Medals: 1867, 1869; 2d class, 1872. Works: Picking Stones in a Field (1867); Locksmith (1868); Frightened Donkeys (1869); The Mill (1872), Marseilles Museum; Chestnut Seller, Under the Willows (1874); Making Sausages; My Neighbour; Wine Taster; Crossing the Brook, Cutting in the Woods of Penthièvre (1879); Crotoy in the Evening, Little Baths of St. Valéry (1880); Picardy (1881); A Mill, Saltmakers and Salters (1882); Stable in Villiers, High Tide at Crotoy (1883); Ma cour, Chemin du bac (1884).

SESTO, CESARE DA. See Cesare da Sesto.

SETTEGAST, JOSEF, born at Coblentz, Feb. 8, 1813. History painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy, and of Veit in Frankfort. Visited Italy in 1838-43. Works: Madonna and Child (1833); Finding of the Cross, Church of the Cross, Ehrenbreitstein; Crucifixion, St. Francis Church, Düsseldorf. In fresco; subjects, Kastor Church, Coblentz; Crucifixion, Max Church, Düsseldorf; cupola of Mentz Cathedral after designs by Veit (1861).—Art Journal (1865), 133; Nagler, xvi. 304; Müller, Düsseldorf. K., 54.

SEUTER (Saiter, Syder), DANIEL, born in Vienna in 1642, 1647, or 1649, died in Rome or Turin in 1705, 1721, or 1725. Italian school; history painter, pupil of Carlo Loth in Venice and of Carlo Maratti in Rome. Sometimes called Avouster or Cavaliere Danielle. Works: Venus on Clouds, Augsburg Gallery; Apollo and Daphne; Dædalus and Icarus; Death of Abel; St. Jerome, Brunswick Gallery.—Nagler, xviii. 64.

SEVEN SACRAMENTS. See Sacraments.

SEVEN WORKS OF MERCY. See Mercy.

SEVERDONCK, JOSEPH VAN; contemporary. History and genre painter, pupil of Wappers. Excellences and defects in his work, so that opinions differ concerning it. Several medals. Leopold and Ernestine House Orders. Works: 14 Stations, Church of Notre Dame, Namur; Battle of Grave