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 crossing the Danube (1810), Horse Races, Cherbourg Museum; Shipwreck, Travellers Resting, Pozzo di Borgo Gallery; Stag Hunt (1822), Marseilles Museum; Cavalcade, Montpellier Museum.—Biog. universelle; Bellier, ii. 536.

SWERTS, JAN, born in Antwerp, Dec. 25, 1825, died at Marienbad, Bohemia, Aug. 11, 1879. History painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under N. de Keyser, and intimately allied with Guffens in raising Belgian art to its high standard; became director of the Prague Academy in 1874. Honorary member of Munich and Dresden Academies, and of German Art Union in 1859; of Amsterdam Academy, 1861; corresponding member of the Institut de France, 1873. Gold medal, Brussels, 1854; Order of Leopold, 1855; Officer, 1869; Prussian Order of the Red Eagle and Baden Order of Zähringer Lion, 1860; Dutch Order of Oaken Crown, 1861; Weimar Order of White Falcon, 1865; Papal Order of Gregory, 1871. Works: Baptism of Clovis; Delivery of Keys to St. Peter; Van Schoonbeck and his Contemporaries; The Labourers (from Lamartine's "Jocelyn"); Festival Day; Italian Woman with her Children; Arrival of Venetian Embassy at Antwerp. In fresco: Seven Sorrows of the Virgin (1855-70), Notre Dame at St. Nikolaes, near Antwerp; Scenes from Life of Christ (1859-71), St. George's, Antwerp; Episodes in History of Flanders (1861-69), Town Hall, Ypres; Scenes from Local History (1873-75), Town Hall, Courtray; Decoration of St. Ann's Chapel in St. Vitus' Cathedral, Prague (1878).—Chronique des Arts (1879), 240; Gaz. des B. Arts (1868), xxv. 74; Illustr. Zeitg. (1872), i. 227; Journal des B. Arts (1878), 188; Riegel, Wandmalerei in Belgien, 3, 10-14, 42, 46-62, 105, 247; Vlaamsche school (1879), 149; Wurzbach, xli. 25.

SWERTSCHKOFF, NICOLAI, born in St. Petersburg in 1818. Genre and animal painter of distinction, self-taught in Paris, and travelling in Germany and the Netherlands; paints especially horses in a masterly manner. Gold medal, Weimar; Bavarian Order of St. Michael, Hessian Order of Philip the Magnanimous; L. of Honour, 1863. Professor at St. Petersburg Academy. Works: Czar Alexis Michailovich reviewing his Troops; Kibitka (Russian vehicle) in the Snow; Village Wedding; Horse Market in Russia, Station for Post-Horses, Return from Bear Hunt (1863); Sleigh pursued by Wolves, Russian Travellers meeting in the Woods (1864).—Müller, 513.

SWORD, JAMES BRADE, born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 11, 1839. Landscape painter, pupil of Christian Schussele, afterwards of William T. Richards and of Asher B. Durand. Studio in Philadelphia. First exhibited in National Academy, New York, in 1863. Works: Trenton Falls (Centennial Exhibition, 1876), James Huglehurst, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Peep into Lake George, James C. Beach, New York; Silver Thread Falls, Mr. Morris, Bloomfield, N. J.; The Fort Cove, James S. Whelen, Philadelphia, Pa.; Shores of Rhode Island, Edward Longstreth, ib.; Something in the Wind, Duck Shooting, C. E. Longley, Providence, R. I.; Newport Harbour (New Orleans Exhibition, 1885); In Full Cry, A Cool Spot (1886); Shores of Conanicut (1887).

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SYLVESTRE, JOSEPH NOEL, born in Béziers (Hérault). June 24, 1847. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel. Took 3d prix de Rome, 1869. Medals: 2d class, 1875; 1st class, 1876; Prize of the Salon, 1876. Works: Shepherds Playing (1873); Death of Seneca (1875); Locusta and Nero (1876), Luxembourg Museum; Last Moments of Vitellius Cæsar (1878); Long, Long Ago (1879); Ducar the