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 Castle of Stolzenfels; Royal Palace, Berlin; Theatre, Dessau. His wife, Hermine (née Peipers, 1808-69), was a landscape and flower painter.—Jordan (1885), ii 224; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 78; Wiegmann, 155.

STILLMAN, MARIE SPARTALI; contemporary. Daughter of a Greek merchant of London, and wife of W. J. Stillman. Subject painter, pupil of Ford Madox Brown. Exhibits at Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Lady Pray's Desire (1867); Christina (1868); Brewing the Love Philter (1869); St. Barbara, Mystic Tryst (1870); Sir Launcelot disguised as a Fool (1873); Mona Lisa (1875); Last Sight of Fiammetta (1876); Roses and Lilies (1877); Gathering Orange Blossoms, Fiammetta Singing, Pensierosa (1879); Beatrice (1880); Among the Willows of Tuscany, Meeting of Dante and Beatrice (1881); Crown of Wind Flowers, Legend of Fair Women (1882); Childhood of St. Cecilia (1883); Madonna, By a Deer Well (1884); Garland Makers (1885).—Portfolio (1870), 117.

STIMMER, TOBIAS, born at Schaffhausen in 1534 or 1539, died in Strasburg in 1582. German school; painted house decorations at Schaffhausen, Strasburg, and Frankfort (1554), and portraits for the Margrave of Baden. Principal work an illustrated Bible, which Rubens valued very highly. Portraits of Man and Wife (1564), Basle Museum; Massacre of the Innocents, Solomon's Judgment (?), Hohenzollern Museum, Sigmaringen; Portrait of Herr von Schuyz and his Wife, Waagen Collection, Munich.—Kugler (Crowe), i. 270; Woltmann, D. Kunst im Elsass, 316.

STIRRUP CUP (La Coupe de Fétrier), Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., Hertford House, London. Two cavaliers have stopped in front of an inn, at right; one, mounted on a white horse, is drinking, while the other receives a glass from a man-servant. Painted in 1865; purchased by Marquis of Hertford at Prince Paul Demidoff sale, Paris (1868). Never engraved.

By Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, Sir Richard Wallace, London. Called La halte (The Halt). Three cavaliers, mounted respectively on a white, a bay, and a black horse, have stopped in front of an inn, in the door of which stand a man, smoking a pipe, and a child; the cavalier at left is drinking, while a maid-servant offers the second one a glass from a tray; at right, a cart, fowls, and village street with figures. Painted in 1862 for the Duc de Morny, and afterwards enlarged at his request; at his sale (1865), purchased by Marquis of Hertford; passed by inheritance to Sir R. Wallace. Etched by Flameng before the enlargement.

By Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, J. W. Mackay, New York. Called Sans débrider (Without Dismounting). Two cavaliers have stopped to drink in front of the inn, and are attended by a man-servant and waiting-maid; in background, a gallant takes his ease under shelter of the inn balcony. Painted in 1876; John Wilson sale, Paris (1881). Etched by Lalauze.

Meissonier has treated this or a similar subject, with one, two, or three horsemen, several times. One, called À tournebride (At the Inn), painted in 1860, represents three cavaliers served by a man-servant. Another, painted in 1862, belongs to C. F. H. Bolckow, Marton Hall, near Middlesborough, England. A third, called Halte à l'auberge (Halt at the Inn), painted in 1864, represents a single horseman drinking in front of an inn, a man holding a tray, and a woman and child at the inn door to left. Pictures bearing this title are owned by William J. Stewart, Paris, and in the United States by J. H. Stebbins and D. O. Mills, New York.

STITES, JOHN RANDOLPH, born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1836. Landscape painter; self-taught. Has painted in Chicago, New Orleans, and New York. Works: The Grave Robbers (1870); The Young Natural