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 III. of Poland and his Family, Hercules pursuing Nessus (1732), Augustus the Strong and Frederick William I., Portraits of Augustus II. and Augustus III. of Poland, of the latter's Consort, and of Louis XV. of France, Dresden Gallery; Augustus III. as Electoral Prince, Leipsic Museum; Louis XIV. receiving at Fontainebleau the Elector of Saxony, Last Supper, Portraits of Frederick Augustus II. of Poland, Marie Joseph of Austria—Queen of Poland, and the Duchesse de Berry, Versailles Museum; Fall of Phaëton, Schwerin Gallery; St. Peter healing the Sick, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Mariette, Abecedario, v. 217; Bellier, ii. 504; Jal, 1133.

SIMBRECHT (Zimbrecht), MATTHIAS, born in Munich, early part of 17th century, died in Prague in 1680. German school; imitated the style of Raphael, whom he studied in Italy. His colouring is warm and powerful. Works: Altarpiece, and S. Rosalia, St. Stephen's Church; Joachim and Anna, and Visitation, Gallery of the Estates, Prague.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 527.

SIMEON-FORT. See Fort.

SIMEON IN THE TEMPLE. See Presentation.

SIMMLER, FRIEDRICH, born at Hanau, May 4, 1801, died at Aschaffenburg, Nov. 2, 1872. Animal, landscape, and portrait painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Langer and W. Kobell, much influenced by Wagenbaur, then pupil of Vienna Academy (1824); returned home and went again to Vienna in 1826; painted portraits and went to Italy in 1827, and after his return painted portraits in Hanover; then took up almost exclusively animal painting (1829-30) at Munich, and from 1832 at Düsseldorf, whence he returned to Geisenheim in 1835; moved to Aschaffenburg in 1862; often painted animals in the landscapes of Böcking, Grichen, and Schulten, while Achenbach and Scheuren supplied the landscape for his cattle-pieces. Works: Midday Rest in Pasture (1830), Königsberg Museum; Noonday Rest on Lake Starnberg (1833); Wild Bull (1835), National Gallery, Berlin; Bull and Sheep (1834), Raczynski Gallery. ib.; Great Dutch Landscape; Bull with Two Cows (1835), Potsdam Art Union; Sheep and Goats, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Bull with Cows Drinking (1835), Stettin Art Union; Animal-Piece, Wiesbaden Gallery; Cows at Pasture in Approaching Storm (1835). His son, Wilhelm (born at Geisenheim, Sept. 6, 1840), genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy, has made a good reputation with attractive scenes from huntsmen's life. Works: Sunday Hunters (1862); On the Way Home (1868); Going to Hunt (1869); Dead Poacher and his Children; Game's Crossing-Place (1880).—Andresen, i. 131; Jordan (1885), ii. 218; Kunst-Chronik, viii. 90; Land und Meer (1873), ii. 752.

SIMMLER, JOSEF, born at Warsaw, March 14, 1823, died there, March 1, 1868. History and portrait painter, pupil of Dresden Academy, and of Bendemann, then in Munich of Genelli, and in Paris of Paul Delaroche; on his return to his native land in 1848 he at once came into prominence, but soon left for Italy, where he studied especially Raphael in Rome, and Fra Angelico in Florence. After his return he painted many stirring scenes from the history of Poland, which increased his reputation. Honorary member of St. Petersburg Academy, 1866. Works: Maria Immaculata; The Three Marys; Stoning of St. Matthew; Martyrdom of St. Josaphat; David Singing Psalms; Entombment; Christ on the Cross; Wedding of Cupid and Psyche (ceiling in a palace at Warsaw); Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; Death of Queen Barbara; Education of King Sigismund; Captivity of John of Finland and his Wife; Oath of Queen Hedwig.—L'Art (1883), i. 101.

SIMMONS, EDWARD EMERSON, born at Concord, Mass.; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil in Paris of Jules Lefebvre and of Boulanger. Honourable mention, Paris Salon, 1883; prize of $2,000, 2d Prize Fund Exhibition, New York, 1886. Works: