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Daniel Sabater y Salabert

Spanish artist, painter & sculptor; born 1888, died Valencia (1951).

Jan Sadeler

Flemish draughtsman, engraver and publisher who began work as a steel-chiseller or damascener but moved to Antwerp, where he was admitted to the Guild of St Luke in 1572 as a copperplate engraver; engraved illustrations after van den Broeck, Michiel Coxcie and Plantin; also collaborated with Marten de Vos; born Brussels (1550), died Venice (1600).
See Martin de Vos.

Cornelis I Saftleven [Sachtleven or Zachtleven]

Dutch artist specialising in genre scenes painted in the manner of Brouwer; also known for his paintings of cattle and of animals which were dressed as people and anthropomorphized; born Gorinchem (1607), died Rotterdam (1681).

Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani

Italian artist who played an important role in introducing the decorative art of the late Baroque to Florence; his works include frescos, altarpieces and other religious subjects; born Florence (1660), died Florence (1731).

Lorenzo Salimbene & Jacopo Salimbene

Italian painters of religious frescoes in which it is difficult to distinguish the hand of Jacopo from that of Lorenzo, who is considered by some critics to have been the master; Lorenzo was born San Severino, Marche (1374) died San Severino (1420); Jacopo was active in Urbino and San Severino (of which he was a councillor) between 1416 and 1420.

Cavaliere Tommaso (called Mao) Salini [Salinas or Solini]

Italian painter, an early Roman follower of Caravaggio against whom he subsequently gave hostile testimony during the 1603 judicial hearings of a lawsuit in which the artist Giovanni Baglione was suing Caravaggio for libel; born ca 1575, died ca 1625.

Bernard Salomon [known as "Le Petit Bernard"]

French woodcut designer; foremost designer for the publisher Jean de Tournes of Lyon; illustrator of religious and classical books, emblem books, travel books, born ca 1506-1520, died ca 1561-1570).

Humphry Salter (17th century), English

Hugues Sambin

French wood-carver, designer, architect and engineer; a maître-menuisier, his involvement in the construction of the château of Fontainebleau explains the strong Mannerist influence in all his work; born Gray (ca 1520), died Dijon (1601); son of the wood-carver Mammès Sambin.

Marco San Martino (17th century), Italian

Erhard Sanssdorffer

German artist; fl. 1546.

Francesco (di Giralomo) da Santacroce

Italian painter of religious subjects; born Venice (1516), died Venice 1584; son of the painter Girolamo da Santa Croce (1480/5-1556).

Girolamo da Santa Croce

Italian artist of religious subects who modelled himself on Giorgione and Titian; born Santa Croce near Bergamo (1480-1485), died Venice (1556); father of the painter Francesco da Santacroce (1516-1584).

Giovanni Santi [Sanzio]

Italian artist and poet; painter at the court of Federigo Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino; born Colbordolo, Pesaro (?1435), died 1494; father of Raphael (1483-1520).

Santi di Tito

Italian painter; born Sansepolcro, Arezzo (1536), died Florence (1603).

Dirck (Dircksz.) Santvoort [Zantvoort]

Dutch painter of society portraits and a few religious compositions; born Amsterdam (ca 1610), died Amsterdam (1680); son of the painter Dirck (Pietersz.) Bontepaert; brother of the landscape painter Pieter (Dircksz.) Santvoort (1603-1635).

Carlo Saraceni

Italian painter active in Venice, Rome and Mantua; greatly influenced by Caravaggio but with less dramatic and softer forms; best known for his jewel-like paintings of sacred and secular themes, which combine a delicate technique with a note of observed realism; also painted altarpieces and worked in fresco; born Venice (1579), died Venice (1620).

Andrea del Sarto [Agnolo, Andrea d’]

Italian painter and draughtsman; the leading painter in Florence in the early years of the 16th century who elaborated and perfected the classical style of the High Renaissance; his early work anticipated aspects of Mannerism, and his later works became important models for the more naturalistic Tuscan artists of the Counter-Reformation; he painted mainly religious works, including both altarpieces and major cycles of frescoes, and highly individualistic portraits, distinguished by a dreamily poetic quality; born Florence (1486), died Florence (1530).

Sassoferrato (Giovanni Battista Salvi), Italian

Italian painter, influenced by Domenichino and the Bolognese academicians; active in Umbria and Rome; born Sassoferrato (1605), died Florence or Rome (1685).

Pieter Joseph [Piat-Joseph] Sauvage

Flemish portraitist and decorative painter; born Tornai (1744), died ? Paris (1818).

Roeland Jacobsz. Savery

Flemish painter of landscapes and rural scenes; born Courtrai (1576), died Utrecht (1639).

Christofle de Savigny (16th century), French

Giovanni Giraolamo Savoldo (also called Girolamo da Brescia)

Italian painter painter of the Brescian school whose style is marked by a quiet lyricism; active in Brescia and Venice, and briefly in Florence and Treviso; exerted a major influence on the development of naturalistic painting in Italy, particularly on the young Caravaggio; born Brescia (ca 1480), died ?Venice (after 1548).

Cristoforo Scacco [Scaccho]

Italian artist; born Verona, active ca 1483-1512, died Naples.

Heidemarie Schäfer

German-born painter working in Siegburg; born 1953.

Godfried Schalken

Dutch tenebrist painter particularly admired for his mastery in reproducing the effect of candle-light; he visited London for a time, but his uncouth manner and bad temper alienated him from society there, and he returned to Holland and settled in The Hague where he continued to paint until his death in 1706; he was the subject of a story Schalken The Painter by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu; born Made (1643), died The Hague (1706).

Johann Ruldolf Schallenberg (1740-1806), Swiss

Edwin Scharff

German sculptor, painter, print maker and Professor of Fine Art in Berlin from 1923 to 1933 when he was deposed by the Nazis and a lot of his work was destroyed; he made many monumental public sculptures and was noted for his portraiture; born Neu-Ulm (1887), died Hamburg (1955).

Hans (Leonhard) Schäufelein [Schaeuffelein, Schaeuffelin, Scheiffelin, Scheyffeleyn], the elder

German painter and designer of woodcuts and stained glass; active in Albrecht Dürer’s workshop in Nuremberg and in Hans Holbein the elder’s workshop in Augsburg; his drawings and paintings interpret traditional themes in a popular and modest tone; born Nuremberg, Nördlingen or Augsbur (ca 1482), died ? Nördlingen (1539/40).

Bartolomeo Schedoni

Italian draughtsman and painter of the Mannerist school; known for his unrestrained use of primary colours and almost metallic-like effects; born Formigine, near Modena (1578), died Parma (1615).

Johann Eleazar Schenau (1737-1806), German

Daniel Schenk [Schenck, Shenk] (18th century), German (Bayreuth)

Member of a German family of sculptors and wood-carvers. The brothers (1) Hans Schenck and (2) Christoph Schenck were wood-carvers, working in the Lake Constance area from c. 1612. Their work, early Baroque in style, represented a departure from the Mannerist traditions of the region. Christoph’s son (3) Johann Christoph Schenck took over his father’s workshop and worked in a more soft and flowing style. Johann Christoph’s son (4) Christoph Daniel Schenck was a sculptor in wood and ivory, whose work combines both Mannerist and Late Gothic features.

Aegidius [Gillis] van Scheyndel

Dutch etcher; his work includes prints after such artists as Willem Buytewech, Esaias van de Velde, Dirck Hals, Pieter de Molijn and Jacques Callot, as well as prints from his own designs consisting of landscapes and figures from everyday life; born ? Haarlam (1622-1654), died before 1679.

Andrea Schiavone [called Andrea Meldolla, Andrija Medulic]

Dalmatian painter, draughtsman and etcher, active in Italy; responsible for the formation of Venetian Mannerism and influential on the late style of Titian; born Zara [now Zadar] (ca 1510), died Venice (1563).

Philipp Ernst Schindler, German

Johann Conrad Schlaun

German architect who dominated the Westphalian baroque style; he also designed gardens and town centres; amongst his masterpieces is the garden developed for Count Ferdinand von Plettenberg, known as the "Westphalian Versailles"; born 1695, died 1773.

Franz-Xaver Schmädl

German (Bavarian) Rococo sculptor whose numerous works in wood have an independent, popular character; born Oberstdorf im Allgäu (1705) died Weilheim (1777).

Matthias Schmid

Swiss (Tirolean) painter of folkloric scenes from Tirolean life and portraits; born See, Paznaun Valley (1835), died Munich (1923).

Franz Xaver Schmidt (1705-1777), German.

(Jean) Victor Schnetz

French painter and printmaker; works include history and religious subjects, and genre pieces; the paintings had an underlying coolness which reflects his neo-classical training under David, and their main importance lies in the bridging of the two schools of Romanticism and Neo-classicism; born Versailles (1787), died Paris (1870).

Erhard Schoen (op. 1491-1542), German

Martin Schongauer

German engraver and painter; a famous artist in his day who concentrated on religious subjects to which he brought a new richnesss and maturity and gracefulness which gave rise to the nicknames 'Hübsch (charming) Martin' and 'Schön (beautiful) Martin'; born ca 1445, died 1491.

Florens [Florent] van Schoonhoven [Florentius Schoonhovius]

Dutch writer of emblem books; born Gouda (1594), died 1649.

Abraham van der Schoor

Netherlandish painter of figure works and still-lifes, active in Amsterdam (1643-1650).

Jakob Ferdinand Schreiber (1871-1902), German

Christian Georg Schütz (op. 1732-1739) and Januaris Zick (1745-1797), German

Siegfried Schümann (b. 1923-), German

Christoph Theodor Schüz (1830-1900), German (Düsseldorf)

Wilhelm Schweizer

German maker of pewter figurines in Diessen, Southern Bavaria; a family business since 1796. See website.

Gerard Jean-Baptiste Scotin [Gerard Scotin II]

French engraver of works by Jean Antoine Watteau and William Hogarth, amongst others.

Painter of the Second Supplement, Manessiche Liederhandschrift, Ötenbach near Zurich (14th century), Swiss

Sebastiano del Piombo = Sebastiano Luciani

Paulus Seeger (18th century), German

Johann Konrad Seekatz (1719-1768), German

Giovanni Segantini

Italian art nouveau artist, recognised in his own lifetime as an innovator and prophet and as an important symbolist painter; whilst his early works reflect traditional style of painting in Lombardy, the beautiful mountain scenery of his childhood provide was the chief inspiration for his later work; the technique of Divisionism – fine parallel brush strokes of pure colour – was his definitive contribution to avant garde art at the time – and the secret of the brilliant luminosity in his paintings; born Arco, Lake Garda (1858), died Pontesina (1899).

Gerard [Gerhard] (Crayer) Seghers [Zegers]

Flemish painter, dealer and collector, active also in Italy and Spain; born Antwerp (1591), died Antwerp (1651).

Alison Seiffer

Contemporary North American magazine and book illustrator who lives and works in Montauk, New York; her work has appeared in The New York Times and Fast Company.

Jakob Seisenegger

Austrian painter active in Bavaria; primarily a portraitist, he began work as an illuminator; born Austria (1505), died Linz (1567).

Vincent Sellaer [Zeelare or Zellaer or Geldersman]

Flemish painter who specialized in half-length figures of women, such as Cleopatra, Suzanna, Leda and Judith; active Mechelen (ca 1538), died 1544. Contemporary inventories confirm the identification of Geldersman with Sellaer. It is probable that two, possibly three, generations of painters bore the name.

Pere (Pedro) Serra (ca 1357-1409), Spanish

Spanish artist who worked with his brother Jaime (fl. 1361-1395) in Gerona, Saragossa, Manresa and Barcelona, and maintained a large and famous workshop. The brothers were important for their projection of the Italo-Gothic style in their own work and for the wide influence they exerted through their many followers; born ca 1357, died Gerona (1409).

Christian Seybold

German artist; a self-taught portrait painter, initially in the baroque formal style; later he turned to a more intimate style of representation, mainly in simple half-length or head-and-shoulders portraits, such as that depicted noted here; born Mainz (1690/1697), died Vienna (1768).

Charles [Hazelwood [Haselwood]) Shannon (1865-?), British

English painter, lithographer and woodcut illustrator who drew his greatest inspiration from the Old Masters, working with religious and classical subject-matter; his portraits and lithographs are amongst his finest and most sensitive work; born Quarrington, nr Sleaford, Lincs, (1863), died Kew, Surrey (1937).

Luca d'Egidio di Ventura de' Signorelli (also called Luca da Cortona)

Italian painter, best known for his nudes and for his novel compositional devices; active in Cortona, Loreto, Monte Oliveto, Sienna, Orvieto, Florence, Rome; born Cortona (1445/50), died Cortona (1523).

Grant Silverstein (contemporary), USA

Pennsylvannia printmaker who draws heavily from mythological themes, and is a master of the intaglio etching technique.

Israel Silvestre the Younger

French engraver, etcher and print dealer; appointed dessinateur et graveur du Roi in 1662; born Nancy (1621), died Paris (1691).

Louis de Silvestre

French painter of classical, religious and historical subjects; born Sceaux or Paris (1675), died Paris (1760); son of engraver and draughtsman Israël Silvestre.

Charles Simmoneau (1645-1728), French

Henry Singleton

English painter and illustrator of books and periodicals; noted for his paintings inspired by the Bible and from literary sources, for his depictions of contemporary historical events, and for his portraits; many of his works were engraved in mezzotint and achieved a widespread popularity; his later works are inclined to be sentimental and were often intended solely for engraving; born London (1766), died London (1839); nephew of miniature painter William Singleton (d. 1793).

Elisabetta Sirani

Italian artist who painted a wide range of subjects-portraits, allegories, religious themes; she painted so fast that it was commonly believed that she had help painting them and in order to refute the charges dignitaries from all over Europe were invited to watch her paint a portrait in one sitting; also important as a teacher, she set up a painting school for women; born 1638, died 1665; daughter of Giovanni Andrea Sirani (1610-1670), Guido Reni’s principal assistant.

Pieter Cornelisz Slingelandt [Slingherlandt, Slingherland Slingerhlant, etc.] (1640-1681), Dutch

Smartistic (2005), Netherlands

Rotterdam-based company marketting artworks via the Internet.

John Smith

English mezzotint engraver and printseller; as well as plates for public sale, he undertook private commissions and retouched existing plates by other engravers; born Northampton (? after 1654), died London (1742/3).

Marion Smith (20th century)

Contemporary English sculptor who has shown throughout the years at the Royal Academy and in London's West End. In 1979, the International Year of the Child, she conceived the idea of a group of bronzes for gardens or terraces – summertime children with a touch of the pastoral about them. She has recently turned her talents to a series of smaller and strikingly powerful works of horses.

Edward Robert Smythe

English artist, one of the foremost painters of the Suffolk School; after early aspirations of a military life he became an artist, and worked in Ipswich alongside artists such as Robert Burrows, and his brother Thomas (1825-1906); born 1810, died 1899.

Andrea Solario [Solari]

Italian painter of biblical subjects and fresoed portraits; born Milan (ca 1465), died Milan (1524); brother of sculptor Cristoforo Solari (1468/70-1524).

Virgil Solis

German designer, draftsman, and printmaker; one of Nuremberg's most prolific printmakers and book illustrators with over 2,000 works to his credit including popular, commercially successful prints on many subjects; he regularly borrowed figures and compositions from German and Italian masters; also disseminated contemporary ornamental forms to artisans, who often used his prints as models for furniture decoration, architectural friezes, pitchers, bowls, sword scabbards, and jewelry; born Nuremberg (1514), died Nuremberg (1562).

Johannes van Somer, engraver – see David II Teniers (1610-1690)

Joris van Son

Flemish artist whose paintings of still-lifes and meals almost always contained the fruit in which he specialised; he also painted still-lifes with garlands of fruit and flowers surrounding cartouches, which sometimes have figure motifs by Erasmus Quellinus II; born Antwerp (1623), died Antwerp 1667).

Hendrick (Maartensz.) Sorgh [Sorch, Sorg, Zorg or Zorg; called Rokes]

Dutch painter of genre scenes who held the official post of market barge captain for the Rotterdam–Dordrecht line from 1638 until his death. born Rotterdam (1609 or 1611), died Rotterdam (1670). His father, Maerten Claesz. Rochusse (or Rokes), a market bargeman, was nicknamed 'de Sorch' (Dut.: 'careful') after his manner of handling cargo.

Lydia Sorio

Italian painter active in Verona; contemporary.

Lionello Spada

Italian draughtsman and painter specializing in ornamental friezes and quadratura, but also executing altarpieces; born Bologna (1576), died Parma (1622).

Marius Spanke (1971-), German

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Giovanni Speranza [called Vaienti] (ca 1470 - ca 1532), Italian

Carl Spitzweg

German painter who is recognized as the most representative of the Biedermeier (early Victorian) artists in Germany; born Munich (1808), died Munich (1885),

Bartholomaeus Spranger [or Spraneers] (1546-1611), Netherlandish

See engraving by Jacques Matham.

Pieter Spyckermann (op. 1650-1666), Netherlands

Francesco Squarcione

Italian (Paduan) tailor-turned draughtsman, printmaker and painter who trained able students, amongst them Mantegna (1430/1-1506), in a school which was possibly the earliest private establishment devoted to teaching painting and distinct from the workshop system of instruction through apprenticeships; his own style demonstrates a romantic, excitable attitude to the antique and an expressive use of line; born Padua 1395, died Padua 1468.

Casper Stadler (18th century), German

Jan (Havicksz.) Steen

Dutch painter, especially noted for genre and interior scenes and religious subjects; active Leiden, the Hague, Haarlem; born Leiden (1626), died Leiden (1670).