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 of Tantalus (1849); Prisoner's Dog (1850); Surprise, Bull pursued by Dog (1853); Street in Brussels in the Morning (1851), Rouen Museum; Episode in Dog-Show at Paris (1855), Brussels Museum; Happy Moment, Monkey stealing Dainties (1859); Prestidigitator, Melancholia of First Pipe (1857); Dog and Fly (1878), etc.—Larousse, xiv. 1100; Gaz. des B. Arts (1880), xxii. 360.

STEVER, GUSTAV CURT, born in Riga, May 16, 1823, died in Düsseldorf, March 17, 1877. History and genre painter, pupil of Berlin Academy in 1847; went to Stockholm in 1850 to paint portraits for court and University of Upsala; in 1845 studied in Paris under Couture; settled in Hamburg in 1859, in Düsseldorf in 1865. Professor; Mecklenburg House Order. Works: Death of the Wend King Gottschalk; Abishag and David (1860), Schwerin Gallery; Transfiguration; Adoration of the Angels; Last Supper; Page and Waiting Woman (1868); Resurrection (1870); Dutch Family Life (1871); Christ and Peter on the Sea (1873); Adam and Eve beside Abel's Body (1874); Jean Mabuse painting his Sleeping Child; Adam van Noort surprising Rubens at his Private Studies; Van Dyck at the Easel; Noble Lady of Old Germany; Cavalier singing with Lute (1875).—Blanckarts, 131; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 858; Kunst-Chronik, xii. 434; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 150.

STEWART, JULIUS L., born in Philadelphia; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Zamacoïs, of Gérôme, and of Raimundo de Madrazo. Mention honorable, Paris Salon, 1885. Works: Reading, La Maja (1878); Portrait (1879); Summer (1882); Court in Cairo (1883); Five o'clock Tea (1884); Hunt Ball (1885); Full Speed (1886), James Gordon Bennett.

STIELER, JOSEF KARL, born in Mentz, Nov. 1, 1781, died in Munich, April 9, 1858. Portrait and history painter, pupil of Fäsel in Würzburg, and of Füger in Vienna. Visited Poland in 1805, and painted portraits in Warsaw and Cracow; then studied under Gérard in Paris; went to Frankfort in 1808, to Milan in 1810, and proceeded as far as Rome. Called to Munich in 1812 to paint the royal family; to Vienna for like purpose in 1816. Court painter in 1820. Works: Liberation of St. Leonard from Dungeon, St. Leonard's, Frankfort; Portraits of Goethe, Beethoven, Tieck, Humboldt, Schelling, Kings Max and Ludwig, of himself, his Daughter, and many others; Gallery of Beautiful Women; Portrait of Goethe (1828), Emperor Francis I. of Austria (1817), Empress Caroline Auguste, Portraits of Bavarian Princes and Princesses (9), Female Portrait, New Pinakothek, Munich; Gen. Tettenborn (1815), Hamburg Gallery.—Nagler, xvii. 348.

STILHEID. See Lin.

STILKE, HERMANN, born in Berlin, Jan. 29, 1803, died there, Sept. 22, 1860. History painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Kolbe. In 1821 went to Munich, then to Düsseldorf with Cornelius to learn fresco. After working in Coblentz and Munich, visited Italy in 1827, and returned in 1833 to Düsseldorf to join Schadow. Was employed in the Castle of Stolzenfels in 1842-46, and from 1850 resided in Berlin. Professor in 1854. Works: Crusaders' Watch (1834); St. George and Angel; Sons of Edward IV., National Gallery, Berlin; Pilgrims in the Desert (1834), Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Maid of Orleans (1837); Last Christians in Syria (1841), Königsberg Museum; Tristan and Isolde; Judith and Holofernes; Amazons; Last Judgment (with Stürmer), Hall of Assizes, Coblentz. In fresco: Six Virtues of Chivalry (1842-46),