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John's Night (1847), Attack on Düppel (1849), Battle of Fredericia (1850), do. of Idsted (1851), St. John's Festival (1858), Return from Market (1870), On the Day after Battle of Idsted (1876), Copenhagen Gallery; Battle of Fredericia (1865), City Hall, Fredericia. In fresco: Arrival of Thorwaldsen at Copenhagen, Unloading of his Sculptures at the Museum, Thorwaldsen Museum, Copenhagen.—Weilbach, 646; Sigurd Müller, 333.


SONNTAG, WILLIAM LOUIS, born at East Liberty, near Pittsburg, Pa., March 2, 1822. Landscape painter, self-taught. After painting for several years in Cincinnati, he removed to New York, where he still resides. Visited Europe in 1853, 1856, 1860, and 1862. Elected N.A. in 1861. Works: Progress of Civilization (series of 4); Alastor or the Spirit of Solitude; Eagle's Home; Dream of Italy; Spirit of the Alleghanies (Duke of Buckingham); View of the Shenandoah; Recollections of Italy; Sunset near Bethlehem—New Hampshire (1871); Sunset in the Swamp—Coast of Maine (1873); View in Vermont (1875); Sunset in the Wilderness, Gulf (1876); Deserted (1877); Passing Shower (1878); Edge of the Woods, T. B. Clarke, New York; Tangled Woods of New Hampshire (1880); Morning in the White Mountains (1881); Fog Rising off Mount Adams (1882); Near Old Orchard Beach—Maine (1883); Mount Winthrop, Burbank's Lake near Shelburne—New Hampshire, Edge of a Pond—Maine, Entrance to a Grove near Portland—Maine, Study of Trees (1884); Mascott Lake—New Hampshire, Hill-Side—New Hampshire (1885); On Glen Road to Mount Washington, Ingalls Brook—New Hampshire (1886).


SOOLMAKER, JAN FRANS, flourished second half of 17th century. Flemish school. Landscape painter, pupil in Antwerp of Jan de Bruin in 1654, but rather imitated the style of Berchem. Works: Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau, Peasant Women at a Fountain in Italy, Brussels Museum; Peasants driving Cattle to Market, Hague Museum; Cattle Market, Bamberg Gallery; Italian Herdsmen with Cattle by a Well, Darmstadt Museum; Landscape with Figures, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.—Van den Branden, 1072.


SOPOLIS, Roman painter, about middle of 1st century B.C. Pliny says (xxxv. 40 [148]), that his works and those of Dionysius filled the picture galleries. He was at the head of a school of painters in Rome (Cic., Ad. Att., iv. 16). Raoul-Rochette calls him a portrait painter.—R.-R., Schorn, 315, 404.


SORDICCHIO, LO. See Pinturicchio.


SORDO DI SESTRO. See Travi, Antonio.



SÖRENSEN, CARL FREDERIK, born at Besserby on Samso, Feb. 8, 1818, died in Copenhagen, Jan. 24, 1879. Marine painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy, won a prize in 1847; cruised in the Mediterranean on a Danish frigate in 1846, and for some time went to sea every year in a Danish man-of-war; visited Germany, the Netherlands, England, and France in 1853-54, and Italy in 1864. Member of Copenhagen (1856) and Stockholm Academies. Professor in 1869. Orders of Danebrog and Vasa. Works: Coast of Jutland after Storm (1848), Summer Morning at Elsinore (1861), The Shears at Bohuslen (1862), On the Coast of Iceland (1878), Copenhagen Gallery; View from the Sound by Kronborg (1871), Christiania Gallery; Men-of-War, Stockholm Museum; Sunrise near Skagen; View of the Kattegat.—Sigurd Müller, 339; Weilbach, 668.


SORGH (Zorg), HENDRIK MAERTENSZ, born in Rotterdam in 1621(?), died there between Oct. 16, 1669, and Aug. 6, 1670. Real name Hendrik Martensz Rokes. Genre painter, pupil of Willem Buiteweg;