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leaving a widow and five children, and was buriedat the Kensal Green Cemetery.

SCROPE, William (of Castle Coombe, Esq.), amateur. He painted, with some ability, landscape scenery, and early in the 19th century was an occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy. In 1801 he con- tributed * A Scene from Schiller's Robbers. ' In 1807 a subject from * The Lay of the Last MinstreF; in 1811, 'View of Melton Bridge ; ' and in 1834, at the British In- stitution, a carefully painted picture of the decayed convent of St. Vivaldo, Tuscany. He published, in 1808, 'The Landscape Scenery of Scotland/ engraved from his own drawings. He died July 20, 1852, aged 81.

SCROUDOMOFF, Gabriel, engraver. Was born in Russia, and was a pensioner of the Empress Catherine. He came to this country, where he resided from about 1774 to 1782, and engraved a great many plates, among them a portrait of De Loutherbourg s beautiful wife.

SEATON, Christopher, gem-engraver. He was a pupil of Reisen, and practised in London about the middle of the 18th cen- tury. He was a contributor to the first exhibitions held in the Metropolis, and was a director of the Incorporated Society of Artists, 1765. He died October 6, 1768.

SEATON, John Thomas, portrait painter. Son of the foregoing. He was a pupil of Frank Hayman, studied in the St. Martin's Lane Academy ; and was also a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists. He exhibited half-length por- traits at the Royal Academy in 1774. He was practising in Edinburgh about 1780, and was in high repute, which his works merited. He was living in 1806.

SEDDON, Thomas, landscape painter. He was born in London, the son of an eminent cabinet-maker, August 28, 1821, and was intended for his father's business, but he could not overcome his dislike to it; and having a taste for art, which he wished to follow, he was sent to Paris in 1841 to study design. On his return he became the designer for his father's works and superintended their execution. In 1848 he gained a prize offered by the So- ciety of Arts for an ornamental design, and aspiring to the practice of art he dili- gently studied the figure. In 1849 he spent some time in Wales sketching the scenery, and in 1850 made an excursion to Paris and Fontainebleau, and after a severe illness again visited Wales in 1851. In 1852 he exhibited his first work, 'Pene- lope,' at the Academy, but subsequently turning to landscape, exhibited in 1853. and again in 1854, a ' View in Brittany. In these two years he was travelling in the East, where he painted some most care- ful and elaborately finished sketches and I

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studies, which he brought home with him and exhibited two of them at the Academy in 1856. Setting out again for the East he was attacked with diarrhoea and died, after a few days' illness, November 23, 1856, at Cairo, where he was buried. His friends purchased and presented to the National Gallery, his ' Jerusalem and the Valley of Jehosaphat,' a work which affords a good notion of his conscientious and painstaking art. His collected works were exhibited at the Society of Arts in 1857. His brother published a memoir of him in 1859.

SEDGWICK, William, engraver. Was born in London, 1748, and practised there in the dot manner, to which, under the influence of Bartolozzi, he devoted him- self. There are plates by him after An- gelica Kauffman, E. Penny, R.A., and others. He died about 1800. 9 SEEMAN (sometimes spelt Zeem aw). Enoch, portrait painter. Born 1694. Was the son of Isaac Seeman, a portrait painter at Dantzig, who brought him when young to London. Here he painted many portraits in a minute, careful manner, some of which are engraved by Faber, G. Bartch, and others. He died suddenly in 1744.

SEEMAN, Isaao, portrait painter. Brother of the foregoing. Practised his art in London, where he died April 4, 1751. He left a son who followed his profession.

SEEMAN, Paul, portrait painter. Was the son of the above Enoch, and practised portrait painting here. Some subjects from still-fife are also attributed to him.

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SEGAR ? Francis, J trait painters who practised m London in the 16th cen- tury. They are spoken of in 'The Wit's Commonwealth,' London. 1598. Maclow spells the name ' Seagar/

SEGUIER, William, topographical landscape painter. Was born in London in 1771, eldest son of David Seguier, well known as a picture-dealer in the time of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He studied under George Morland, and for some time fol- lowed the profession of an artist, and painted some interesting views in and around the Metropolis. 'Covent Garden Theatre when on fire ;' 'the Church of St. Paul, Covent Garden, on fire ; ' ' a view of Seven Dials. 7 They are painted in a neat but free hand, which recalls the manner of his master, are pleasing in colour, and filled with groups of figures well mtroduced. Later in life he devoted himself to picture- restoring. His professional skill, taste, and knowledge of art, gained him several important appointments. George IV. ap- pointed him keeper of the royal pictures. He was also the first director of the Na- tional Gallery, and superintendent of the oo 385