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 Amsterdam Museum; Well-Supplied Table, Village Inn, Rotterdam Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 120; Kramm, v. 1582.

STRY, JACOBUS VAN, born at Dordrecht, Oct. 2, 1756, died there, Feb. 4, 1815. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Andreas Cornelis Lens at Antwerp Academy, then formed himself chiefly through the study of Paulus Potter and Aelbert Cuyp. Works: Landscape, Milking Time, Evening in the Country, Going to Market, Museum Amsterdam; Cattle resting on River Bank, Museum Fodor, ib.; Cows and Sheep by Farm Buildings, Leipsic Museum; Cows in Pasture, Czernin Gallery, Vienna.—Immerzeel, iii. 119; Kramm, v. 1583.

STRYOWSKI, WILHELM, born in Dantzic in 1834. Genre painter, pupil of Schadow in Düsseldorf. After visiting Galicia, Holland, and Paris, settled in Dantzic. Medal in 1864. Works: Washerwomen surprised by Rain (1854); Sunday Afternoon in the Country (1856); Polish Sailors before the Evening Fire; Boatmen Resting (1860); Little Wire-Worker; Dancing Cossack (1861); Skaters; Polish Jews in Synagogue (1862); Jews Praying; Rendezvous on Roofs of Dantzic; Wedding Procession of Galician Jews (1874); Landscape on Vistula (1882).—Müller, 511.

STUART, GILBERT, born in Narragansett, Rhode Island, Dec. 3, 1755, died in Boston, July 27, 1828. After some unaided efforts, he received instruction from Cosmo Alexander, a Scotch portrait painter, whom he accompanied to Scotland in 1772. The death of his master left Stuart to shift for himself, and after struggling a while at the University of Glasgow, he returned home. In 1775 he went again to England and found a friend and master in Benjamin West, who employed him as an assistant. In 1785 he set up a studio of his own with great success, getting high prices. In 1788 he visited Dublin and painted several portraits. In 1792 he returned to America. Soon after his arrival in New York, the Duke of Kent offered to send a ship of war for him if he would go to Nova Scotia and paint his portrait; but unwisely, as he afterwards thought, he declined the offer. After working for two years in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, Stuart settled in Boston, where he resided the remainder of his life. His portraits show great insight into character, and are remarkable for their simplicity of means. They have great individuality, excellent balance of light and shade, and generally pure colour. Among the best are those of Washington, of whom Stuart was the painter par excellence. Works: Portrait of Washington (1796), Martha Washington (1796), Washington at Dorchester Heights, General Henry Knox, Josiah Quincy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, T. Jefferson Coolidge, ib.; Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Mr. and Mrs. David Sears, Mrs. William Amory, ib.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Revere, John Revere, ib.; Jared Sparks (1827), Mrs. Parks, Cambridge, Mass.; Judge Joseph Story, Harvard University, ib.; Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Quincy (1806), Edmund Quincy, Dedham, Mass.; Rev. William Ellery Channing, George G. Channing, Milton, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. George Gibbs, Colonel George Gibbs, Wolcott Gibbs, Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. Samuel William Johnson (1792), Mrs. William Bellamy, Dorchester, Mass.; Commodore O. H. Perry, Oliver H. Perry, Lowell, Mass.; Sir John Temple, Mrs. Eliza B. Temple Winthrop, Robert C. Winthrop, Brookline, Mass.; Presidents Washington, John Adams, and Jefferson, and Egbert Benson (1807), Historical Society, New York; General Horatio Gates, John R. Stevens, ib.; Commodore Macdonough, A.