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PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.


Paris, at the expense of the Archbishop of Saint- Albin. and afterwards became the first master of the Cambrai School of drawing. The Musees of Cambrai and Lisle possessed examples of his work. He died in the former city in 1788. His son, Locis Joseph Xioolas, also a painter, succeeded to liis father's post. He was bom in 1755, and died in 1810. There is a 'Christ in the Tomb ' by him in the Cambrai Museum. By Antoine-Louis SAi.vr- AlTBEKT, son of Louis Joseph Nicolas, there is a ' Norman Coast Scene,' in the same collection. He wa? born in 1794, and died 1854.

SAIXT-AUBIX, AUGUSTIN', engraver, born Ln Paris in 1736, was taught drawing by his brother Gabriel, and engraving by Etienne Fessard and Laurent Care. He engraved ' Leda w-ith the Swan.' after Veronese, and 'Venus with a Mussel-shell,' after Titian, and more than 300 portraits of the famous men of liis day. He died in 1807.

SAINT-AUBIX, Charles Germain de, a French engraver, was born in Paris in 1721. He was the author of three series of plates known respectively as 'Essais de PapiUonneries humaines,' ' Mes petits bouquets,' and ' Les Fleurettes.'

SAINT-AUBLX, Gabriel Jacques de, brother of the last-named, was born in Paris in 1724. He was a pupil of Jeaurat, CoUin de Vermont, and Boucher. He painted first heroic and then domestic subjects, and has left forty-three etchings. He died in 1780. His brother Louis-MiCHEL, also a painter, was employed at Sevres.

ST. AUBYN, Catherine, is the author of some etchings dated from 1788 to 1798. Two drawings bv her of St. Michael's Mount have been engraved.

" SAINT-AULAIRE, Felix Achille, painter, a native of Piedmont, born 1801. He studied under the elder and younger Garneray, and practised in France. He chiefly devoted himself to marine subjects. He last appeared at the Salon in 1838. He is also known as a lithographer.

SAINT-EVE. Jean-Marie, engraver, bom at Lyons on the 9th June, 1810. He studied first at Lyons under V. Vibert, and subsequently in Paris under Richomme, and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In 1840 he gained the ' Prix de Rome,' and in 1848 a medal of the first class. He engraved some im- portant plates, and died at Montmartre, September 4tli, 1856. Among his best plates are :

Portrait of Andrea del Sarto ; after that master. Poetry ; after Raphael. Theology; after the same. Pamphlet notices of his life and works were pub- lisb.ed at Lyons by J. S. Bourgeois in 1860, and by Dr. Charles Fraiss'e in 1862.

SAINT-EVRE, Gillot, painter, born at Bault- sur-Snippe, Mame. He was for a time an officer of artillery, but gave up military life to devote himself to art. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon, and died in Paris in 1858. There are examples of his work at Versailles.

SAlNT-IGNy, Jean he, a painter and engraver of Rouen, who nourished at the end of the 16th century. He wrote a book on tb.e iirst elements of portrait paintin.:, and died in 1C49.

SAINTIN. Jules Emile, Frenoli painter ; bom -August 14, 1829 ; became a pupil of Drolling, Le Boucher, Pieot, and the Ecole des Beaux .-!ts. For over ten years he lived in America, and made a special study of the Indians jmd their wnya ami customs. Mainly a ].ortrait-painter and p sti»llist. though occasional genre ar.d allegorii-al subj>cts were successfully portrayed by him. In 1866 and 1870 he obtained medals, and the Legion of Honour in 1877. He died July 14, 1894.

SAINT-JE.N, SiMOX, flower-painter, was horn at Lyons in 1808, and educated there under Fran9ois Lepage. He took Van Huysuin as his model, and rivalled his truth to nature. He died at EcuUy- Lyon, in 1860. Examples of his art are to be found in the Museums of Rouen and Lyons.

SAINT-NON. Abb^ de, Jeax-Claude-Richarp, draughtsman and etcher, bom in Paris in 1730. His love for art induced him to sell his oflice in the Legislative Assembly, and to undertake a journey of some duration in Italy for the purpose of making studies from the old masters. Many of these he etched on his return to Paris. He brought out a ' Voyage pittoresque dTtalie et des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile,' with many plates, and also pub- lished a series of nineteen sheets of antique orna- ments and furniture, which had a favourable influ- ence upon decorative taste in France. He r.sually signed his plates S. N., or S. No. He died in 1804.

SAINT-ODRS, Pierre Pattl de, painter, was born at Geneva in 1752. His father, a drawing master, sent him to Paris, where he entered the school of Vien, and in 1780 gained the Prix de Rome with his picture of the ' Rape of the Sabines.' Being however a Protestant and a foreigner he was not entitled to the pension, bi-.t was allowed to proceed to Rome some years later, under certain conditions. Chving to bad health he returned to his own country, where he devoted himself to por- trait painting. In 1803 he won the only reward given by the French Government in a competition set afoot by themselves, for the best picture on the subject of the 'Concordat.' His works are chiefly to be found at Geneva. He died at SchafEhansen in 1809.

SAINT QUENTIN, a French painter, and pupil of Boucher, who flourished between 1760 and 1780, and painted landscapes and genre pictures.

SAINT-YVES. Pierre de, historical painter, bom at Maubert-Fontaine in 1666. He became an Associate of the Academy in 1708, liis entrance picture being 'Jephthali's Sacrifice' (now in the Tours Museum). He died in Paris, March 20. 1716.

SAITER, Daniel, (Seitek, Seuter, Syder.) painter, was born at Vienna in 1642 (1647). He went to Italy when he was very young, and studied for some years at Venice, under Carlo Loth. From Venice he went to Rome, where lie studied under Carlo Maratti. He was afterwards invited to the court of Turin, where he painted many piictures, among them the fresco in the Cupola of the Spednl Maggiore. Examples of his work are also to be found at Brimswick, Dresden, and in the Turin Gallery. He died at Turin in 1705.

SAITER, JOHANN GOTFRIED, (Seiter, Or Seuter, Syder,) a German draughtsman and en- graver, bom at Augsburg in 1718. He was in- stmcted by J. E. Ridinger and G. M. Preissler. He lived some years in Italy, but died in the hospital at Augsburg in 1800. Works:

Portrait of John Knpetzky, Painter. George Philip Rugeadas, Battle Painter. Abraham sending away Hagar ; after C'ehsti. A Holy Family : afttr Andrea del ^arto. O'rist with Martha and Mary ; after L. da llnci. The Adulteress before Christ ; after Froeaccini. The Marriage at Caua; after P. Veronese. The Flight into Egypt : tjfter Albano.

SAIVE, John B.Ai'Tisr de, born at Na'uur in 1540, died Aprd 6, 16:i4. He left Namur after