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SPRANGER, BARTHOLOMEUS, born in Antwerp, March 21, 1546, died in Prague about 1627. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Jan Mandyn and of Cornelis van Dalen. In 1565 he went to Paris, and thence to Milan, Parma, and Rome, where he remained until 1575. Recommended to Maximilian II. in 1575, he executed for him and his son, Rudolph II., important decorative works, and resided as court painter in Prague, whither he returned after a visit to his native country in 1602. Ennobled by Rudolph II., he called himself Spranger van den Schilden. Despite many good qualities, his works show the want of early training. Works: Magdalen, Antwerp Museum; Susanna justified by Daniel, Brussels Museum; Holy Family, Brunswick Gallery; Banquet of the Gods, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Diana and Actæon, Christiania Gallery; Diana and Nymphs, Stockholm Museum; Venus served by the Graces, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Resurrection (attributed), Berlin Museum; Circumcision, Descent from the Cross, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Cupid and Psyche, Oldenburg Gallery; Apollo, Mydas, and Marsias, Lot and Daughters fleeing from Sodom, Susanna and the Elders, Schleissheim Gallery; Cupid and Psyche, Stuttgart Museum; Ulysses with Circe, Mercury surprising Venus and Mars, Venus and Mercury with Genii, Apollo and Muses, Vulcan and Maia, Triumph of Wisdom, Allegory on Virtues of Rudolph II., Hercules and Omphale, Mars with Venus and Cupid, portraits of Artist and his Wife, Vienna Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Fétis, Artistes belges à l'étranger, i. 389; Immerzeel, iii. 104; Kramm, v. 1551; Michiels, vi. 3; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 31.

SPRING, Nicolas Poussin. See Paradise.

SPRING-TIME, Pierre Auguste Cot, D. T. Lyle, Brooklyn, N. Y.; canvas, H. 8 ft. × 4 ft. A young man and a girl, life-size, sitting in a swing among the trees of a garden. Painted in 1873; bought by John Wolfe, New York; at his sale (1878) to Mr. Lyle. Replica, smaller, Dr. Marcy, New York; two more in Europe.—Photogravure in Art Treasures of America, i. 54.

SPRINGER, CORNELIS, born in Amsterdam, May 25, 1817. Architecture painter, pupil of Kasper Karsen, whom he greatly surpasses in conception of his subjects and in powerful colouring. Member of Rotterdam Academy in 1856; gold medal, Hague, 1857; Orders of Oaken Crown (1861) and of Leopold. Works: City Hall at Middleburg (1859); do. and Market at Veere (1861), City Hall at Cologne (1874), Museum, Amsterdam; City in Winter, Market in Haarlem, View in the Briel, Museum Fodor, ib.; Town Hall and Market at Naarden, Rotterdam Museum; Leyden Cathedral; City Halls at The Hague, Brussels, Bremen, Brunswick, Münster, Cologne, and Lübeck; Market Place in Ulm.—Immerzeel, iii. 106; Kramm, v. 1553.

SPROSSE, KARL, born in Leipsic, June 11, 1819, died there, Jan. 1, 1874. Landscape and architecture painter, pupil of Leipsic Academy under Brauer and Schnorr. Visited Saxony and the Rhine country in 1836-37; went in 1844 to Rome; spent many years there and in Venice, but made occasional visits home; visited also Greece. Gold medal in 1854. Works: Roman Forum; St. Mary's Church in Nuremberg; Cathedral of Ratisbon; St. Mark's in Venice; Castle of Merseburg; Cathedrals of Erfurt and Worms; Series of Views in Rome and Venice; many churches and castles in Germany; Rear View of Ratisbon Cathedral (1857), The former Moat at Leipsic (1858), Tombstones of the Scaligers, Leipsic Museum.—Andresen, i. 76; Kunst-Chronik, ix. 252.