he spent his time in regulating his estate on economical lines, and in silhouette cutting at Brie sur Marne. SINTZENICH (1779). Silhouette engraver. SKOYMSHER. Eighteenth century. Cut paper. Address: 280, Holborn. SMITH, J., Edinburgh. Painted on plaster. Eighteenth century. SOLLBRIG, JOHANN GOTTLIEB (1765-1815). Miniature painter and silhouettist. SPECKBERGER. Silhouette portraits with gold backgrounds. SPORNBERG, W. Painted in black on convex glass, ground in black, profile, and pattern in orange red, elaborate borders. Portrait, one of eight, signed and dated, in the possession of Lady Sackville. “W. Spornberg, inventor, No. 5, Lower Church Street, Bath, 1793.” Portraits of the Ansley family. STANZELL. Silhouette portrait with gold ground. STARCH (1806). Silhouette of Wieland, in the Goëthe Museum at Weimar; also group of a family at the tomb of a child, at the same Museum. STEELL. Advertisement from the _Northampton Mercury_, October 8th, 1781:—“Mr. Steell most respectfully solicits those inclined to honour him by sitting to be immediate, as his stay will be so short.” “Likenesses in Profile. Dec. 22, 1781. Mr. S., having been sent for back to Northampton to wait on some families in the neighbourhood, and being informed that several ladies and gentlemen have applied during his absence, takes this opportunity of acquainting the public that he purposes stopping for about a week at Mr. Mawby’s, in Mercer’s Row, where he hopes those who are inclined to honour him will apply.” STRÖHL, KARL FRÖHLICH. Modern German silhouettist. TAPP, F. Frontispiece for a cookery book. Silhouettes cut out of black paper, red background. TERSTAN, A. T. XVIII. THOMAS, 83, Long Acre. “Undertakes to supply silhouette portraits at 1s. each. Mr. T. is able to make this liberal offer in consequence of an order he has received from a gentleman of eminence to procure 50,000 different profiles of the human countenance for a treatise on physiology.” On Indian ink portrait of an officer, engraved mount. [Illustration: Painted silhouette, with gold pencilling. In the possession of Lady Sackville, at Knole. Painted silhouette, with gold pencilling and blue stock tie, at Knole. Painted silhouette, with gold pencilling, at Knole. Silhouette, painted on card. In the possession of the Author. The COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON, 1829. By Foster, at Knole.] THOMASON, I. (1793), Dublin. Itinerated in Cheshire, Lancashire, and Staffordshire. Painted on glass and plaster, black faces, white relief. His advertisement says:—“Silhouettes in miniature profile taken by Thomason on a peculiar plan and reduced to any size. Silhouettes set in rings, lockets, and pins, and he keeps original shades; can supply those he has once taken with any number of copies, reduces old ones, and dresses them in present taste. Address: 25, Great George Street, Dublin.” Also advertisement in _Dublin Chronicle_, May, 1792. Address: No. 30, Capel Street, Dublin.