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Inn Fields, July 5, 1792. He was buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, Covent Garden. At Sir Mark Sykes's sale in 1824, his works fetched hii^h prices, and 51/. was paid for a proof of nis Charles I., after Vandyck. His wife was of an old Jacobite family, and it is told of her that, when aged and bedridden, some one in her presence speaking of Prince Charles as * The Pre- tender/ she started up and exclaimed,


 * The Pretender be d d to you ! ' The

drew Luniisden/ the brother of this lady, were published in 1855.
 * Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange and An-

Was born in Covent Garden in 1624, the son of a i>ainter, and was a pupil of Du Moulin, said to have been celebrated in his day. He painted history, portraits, land- scape, and still-life. Charles II. appointed him his Serjeant-Painter. He painted several ceilings at Whitehall, which were destroyed at the fire • * Moses and Aaron/ for St. Michael's, Cornhill: the Chapel at All Souls' College, Oxford, and a large ceiling at the theatre there, deemed his best work ; the flying Amorini on it are good, and though a pretentious attempt, it is not without ment. He painted scenes for the King's masques, and etched the Battle of Naseby and several architect- ural plates. Pepys describes him 'as an excellent painter of perspective and land- scape/ and says * he nad great popularity during his life/ He was attacked by ill- ness, and the King sent to Paris for an eminent physician to attend him, but he arrived too late. He died in 1G80. It appears that his son succeeded him as Sergeant- Painter, and died in 1711.
 * STREATER, Robert, history painter.

STREETES, Gwillim, portrait painter. Was an English artist, and was painter to Edward VI. in 1551. Strype records that the King paid him 50 marks for two pictures of the King, and a third of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who was beheaded in 1546-7.

STRINGER, Daniel, portrait painter. He was a student of the Royal Academy about 1770, and obtained the power of drawing with great beauty and spirit, and was also a good colourist. He produced some admirable heads, and maae some sketches which showed great comic power. But he sacrificed his great talent to the company of country squires and the love of Cheshire ale. and the admirers of his art lost sight of nim.

STRINGER, E., topographical drafts- man. Practised in the last quarter of the 18th century. Was a member of the Liverpool Academy, and contributed to their exhibitions. Some of his works, which have no art merit, were engraved for the 'Gentleman's Magazine' about

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STROEHLING, P. H., portrait paint- er. He was a Russian subject, and was educated at the expense of the Emperor, finishing his studies in Italy. He came to this country about 1804, and in that and the two following years was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy. He does not again appear as an exhibitor till 1819, and from that year till 1826 sent his works to the Academy. His portraits are chiefly in oil, but he also painted some good miniatures, and had many distinguished sitters.

♦ S T R U T T. Joseph, painter and en- graver. Was born at Springfield, Essex, October 27, 1749, and was the son of a miller who possessed some property. His mother, who had been many years a widow, apprenticed him, at the age of 14, to the unfortunate W. Wynne Ryland. In 1769 he was admitted to the schools of the Royal Academy, and having gained a silver medal, he was, in 1770, awarded the gold medal for his historical painting of ' iEneas stopped by Creusa.' An introduction at this time to the Library of the British Museum turned his attention to literature, which divided his thoughts with art. and in 1 773 he published his ' Regal and Eccle- siastical Antiquities of England ; ' in 1774 the first volume of what he called his great work ? * The Manners and Customs of the English/ followed by the remaining two volumes in 1775 ana 1776. His art was the handmaid to his antiquarian tastes. He made his drawings, engraved his plates, and wrote his letter-press commentary. In 1775 the first volume of his * Chronicle of England' appeared, and the second in the following year ; but it did not receive sufficient encouragement to induce its continuance.

At this time he was greatly afflicted by the death of his wife, followed by the death of his mother, and it is not till 1785 that he again appears. In that and the fol- lowing year he published his 'Dictionary of Engravers/ in the second volume of which Tie was assisted by the elder Bacon, the sculptor. He suffered from asthma, and in 1790 he retired to Bramfield, near Hertford, where he resided five years, and engraved the greater part of the plates for London, where alone he could find materials to gratify him in his studies, and began to collect materials for his work, ' The Dresses and Manners of the English/ which he published in 1796-9. To this, in 1801, he added his last work, 'The Sports and Pastimes of the English/ He nad com- menced a work to illustrate the usages of the 15th century, styled ' Queen Hoo Hall/ which he laid aside to undertake a new edition of his ' Manners and Customs,' but death put an end to his industrious labours.
 * Pilgrim's Progress/ But he returned to