PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
was Director of the Municipal Drawing School at Troyes.
SCHIVEN06LIA, Lo. See Rainieri.
SCHIZZONE, , an Italian painter of the 16th century, the friend and companion uf Vincenzio di S. Gimignano. His career was cut short bj- the troubles of 1527, for after the sack of Rome he appears to have abandoned art.
SCHKUHR,Christian, draughtsman and etcher, was born at Pegau, in Saxony, in 1741. He devoted himself early in life to botany, but later added mechanics and optics to his pursuits, and was appointed meclianician to the Wittenberg University. He pubUslied a botanical liandbooix, the plates for which he designed and etched himself. He died at Wittenberg in 1811.
SL'HLEICH, Adrian, German engraver ; born December 7, 181'2, at Municli, where he studied under S. Amsler. He established himself at Muiiich, and worlved exclusively at steel-engraving; his plates to Schiller's ' Glocke ' and Kaulbach's ' Reinecke Fuchs,' and his reproductions uf Schran- dolfs frescoes for Speyer Cathedral are well known. He died at Munich, November 8, 1894.
SCHLEICH, August, painter and etcher, bom at Munich in 1814, principally devoted himself to drawing animals, fie died at Munich in 1865.
SCHLEICH, Eduard, landscape painter, was born at Schloss Haarhach, near Landshut, in 1812. He was a pupil of the Muiu'ch Academy, but his real teachers were the Bavarian mountains and the Old Masters. He travelled in Upper Italy, France, and the Netherlands. In 1868 he was elected Royal Bavarian Professor at Munich, and there he died in 1874.
Berlin. 2Vat. Gal/. Evening Landscape. Munich, y. Pinakothek. Landscape — Isar and Bavarian Alps. „ A Chalet.
SCHLEICH, JoHANK Karl, engraver, bom at Augsburg in 1759, learned his art under Jungwirth and Mettenleiter. He engraved portraits of many of his contemporaries, some topographical plates, and ' Hope nursing Love,' after Reynolds. He died at Munich in 1842.
SCHLEICH, Karl, engraver, son and pupil of Johann Karl Schleich, was born at Augsburg in 1788. There are by him :
Peasant Family ; after Potter, The Cathedral of Katisboa. A View of Munich. Twelve Landscapes ; after JVagenlaur, Ihijardin, and Ostade.
He died at Munich in 1840.
SCHLEISNER, Christian Andreas, painter, was born at Lyugby, near Copenhagen, in 1810. His early education was obtained at the Copenhagen School of Art, but afterwards he studied for a time in Munich, and between 1840 and 1842 was a travelling student of the Copenhagen Academy. Of this institution lie became a member in 1852, and a professor in 1858. His pictures belong to the class of genre ; many of them are comic. His deatli took place at Copenhagen in 1881. Works :
Copenhagen. Gallery. Sailors in a Beershop. „ „ Tinker in his "Workshop. Hanicb. iVew Pina- ] The Coppersmith and hU koihek. J" Family
SCHLESINGER,Adam, painter, bom at Kberts- heim, in Rhenish Bavaria, in 1759, painted fruits. In the National Gallery, Berlin, are two examples of his art. He died in 1829.
SCHLESINGER, Henri, was born at Frankfort in 1814, studied at Vienna, settled in Paris, and became a naturalized Frenchman and a regular exhibitor at the Salons (1840-89), where his por- traits and genre subjects were well known. He gained medals, of the third class in 1840, and of the second class in 1847, and in 1866 was admitted to the Legion of Honour. His portrait of the Sultan Mahmoud II. hangs at Versailles. Among his works may be mentioned, 'Double Arret,' ' Les Amours d'autrefois et ceux d'aujourd'hui,' 'Jeune Fille du Maroc,' and 'Cadeaux de NoeL' He died in 1893.
SCHLESINGER, Jakor, painter, born at GriJn- stadt in 1793, learned the first principles of art from his father, Johann Schlesinger, and afterwards studied in Mannheim and Munich. The brothers Boisseree employed him in restoring old pictures. In 1822 he was appointed professor at Berlin. The Sistiiie Madonna of Rapliael, Titian's daugh- ter, and other well-known pictures were copied by him. He also painted portraits, and fruit and flower pieces. He died at Berlin in 1855. There is a tracing by him from the Sistine Madonna in the London National Gallery.
SCHLEY, Vam dkr. See Van der Schley.
SCHLICHT, Abel. This artist was born at Mannheim in 1754. He engraved several plates in aquatint, which are favourably mentioned by Huber. He was a painter and architect as well as an engraver ; lie studied perspective under L. Quaglia, and was a professor in the Academy of Diisseldorf. He died in 1826. Among his plates we may name :
A Storm and Shipwreck ; after Vernet. A Calm ; after thi same. A Landscape, with cattle ; after A. Vandevelde. A Landscape, with figures and animals ; after Berghem, A Landscape ; after Pyvaker. Several architectural Views ; after Bihiena, Pannini, and others.
SCHLICHTEN, J. P. van der. See Van der SCHLICHTEN.
SCHLOEPKE, Theodor, painter, first made his name by painting genre and horse pictures, and portraits. For the Duke of Mecklenburgh he painted a series of scenes of the Schleswig-Holstein war. Between 1855 to 1857 he painted at I'aris, under the auspices of H. Vemet, his one great his- torical picture, the ' Death of Niclot.' He died at Schwerin in 1878.
SCHLOSSER, Leopold, landscape painter, was a native of Berlin. He painted a large landscape with two wolves in the foreground, which showed considerable talent. He died at Diisseldorf in 1836.
SCHLOTTERBECK, Christian Jakob, a painter and engraver, but chiefly the latter, was born at Boblingen, in Wurtemberg, in 1755. He was the son of a stone-cutter, and first studied medicine, which he afterwards abandoned for art He entered the Karlsacadeniie at Wiirtemberg in 1774, and studied engraving under J. Y. Muller. In 1785 he was appointed court engraver. He painted Duke Cliarles and King Friedrich of Wurtemberg, and engraved a number of portraits, among which are those of Sohubart, Harper, Guibal,etc. Of his other plates, the principal are, ' Titian's Mistress,' after the picture once in the Orleans collection, ' Herodias with the head of John the Baptist,' the ' Laocoon,' and busts of Castor
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