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picture, with a cart and three horses tandem fording the brook (Royal Academy, 1831), belonged in 1857 to Samuel Ashton, near Manchester. Sketch, called The Rainbow, in Louvre. Engraved by D. Lucas.—Waagen, Treasures, ii. 301; do., iv. 416; Brock-Arnold, 105.


SALLAERT, ANTHONIE, born in Brussels about 1590, died after 1648. Flemish school; history painter, pupil of M. de Bordeau, master of Brussels Guild in 1613; dean in 1633-35, 1646-48; often employed by Rubens in Antwerp. Works: Archery in 1613 (1620); Procession of Brussels Guild; Allegory on Passion of Christ, Procession des Pucelles du Sablon, Infanta Isabella Victrix at the Shooting of the Grand-Serment, Brussels Museum; Holy Family, Ghent Museum; Judgment of Paris, Madrid Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 52; Kramm, v. 1439; Nagler, Mon., i. 530.


SALLES, ADELHEID (née Wagner), born in Dresden in 1825. History and portrait painter, sister of Élise Puyroche, studied in Dresden and under Jacquand in Paris, married the painter Jules Salles at Nîmes. Works: The Parcæ; Psyche in Olympus; Daughter of Eve; Elijah in the Desert; Pensierosa; Truth ensnared by Falsehood; Exit from Bath; The Echo; Queen Bertha.


SALMACIS AND HERMAPHRODITUS, Francesco Albani, Louvre; copper, H. 6 in. × 1 ft. Hermaphroditus, about to bathe in the fountain Salmacis, is watched by the nymph from behind trees (Ovid, Met., iv. 285). From Collection of Louis XIV. Copy, with variations, in Turin Gallery; engraved by Bridi.—Villot, Cat. Louvre, 8; Filhol, i. Pl. 16; Landon, Musée, vi. Pl. 23; Gal. di Torino, i. Pl. 21.


SALMSON, HUGO FREDRIK, born in Stockholm in 1843. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Stockholm Academy under Boklund, then in Paris of Charles Comte; painted at first genre scenes from Swedish history, settled in Paris in 1869, and has since taken up subjects from modern life in the elegant manner of Comte. Medal, 3d class, 1879; L. of Honour, 1879. Member of Stockholm Academy in 1871. Works: Catharina Jagellonica and Jöran Persson; Gustav Vasa finding his Wife Asleep; Sten Sture offering Peace to Archbishop Trolle (all before 1869); Spring; Visit at the Bailiff's; Peasant Woman with Dove; Fortune Teller; Orsa Woman with her Child; Carrot Planters in Picardy; An Arrest in a Village of Picardy (1879), At the Gates of Dalby in Skane—Sweden (1884), Luxembourg Museum; The Orphans (1884); Little Gleaner, Dear Grandma (1885); Visit to the Farmer—Sweden (1886).—Müller, 457.


SALOMAN, GESKEL, born at Tondern, Schleswig, April 1, 1821. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy and of Lund and Eckersberg; went in 1850 to Gotenburg, where he painted many portraits, and in 1854 to Paris to study under Couture; visited Algiers in 1860-61. Member of Stockholm Academy in 1871, court painter in 1876. Order of Vasa, 1869. Works: Game of L'Hombre; First Lesson on Violin; Painter and Model; News from Crimea, Gotenburg Museum; Swedish Weaver and Child (1858); Emigrants of Gotenburg (1869); Spahi before his Sweetheart's Door; Victim of the Chickens; Girl with Letter, Stockholm Museum.—Weilbach, 605.


SALOME, daughter of Herodias and of Philip, brother of Herod the tetrarch. She danced before her uncle on his birthday and so pleased him that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask. She, instructed by her mother, whose guilty relations with Herod had been denounced by John the Baptist, demanded the head of John, and it was brought to her in a charger (Matt., xiv.). A favourite subject with the painters.

By Carlo Dolci, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 3 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. 8 in. The daughter of Herodias, three-fourths length, with head of John the Baptist in a charger. Painted for the Marchese Rinuccini. Engraved by P. A. Kilian.—Gal. roy. de Dresde, i. Pl. 42.