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SCHREYER (1828-1899)  , German painter, was born at Frankfort-on-Main, and studied art first at the Staedel Institute in his native town, and then at Stuttgart, Munich, and Dusseldorf; but he formed his style in Paris, whilst he found hisfavourite subjects in his travels in the East . He first accompanied Prince Thurn and Taxis through Hungary, Wallachia, Russia and Turkey; then, in 1854, he followed the Austrian army across the Wallachian frontier . In 1856 he went to Egypt and Syria, and in 1861 to Algiers . In 1862 he settled in Paris, but returned to Germany in 187o; and settled at Cronberg near Frankfort, where he died in 1899 . Schreyer was, and is still, especially esteemed as a painter of horses, of peasant life in Wallachia and Moldavia, and of battle incidents . His work is remarkable for its excellent equine draughtsmanship, and for the artist's power of observation and forceful statement; and has found particular favour among French and American collectors . Of his battle-pictures there are two at the Schwerin Gallery, and others in the collection of Count Mensdorff-Pouilly and in the Raven Gallery, Berlin . His painting of a " Charge of Artillery of Imperial Guard " was formerly at the Luxembourg Museum . The Metropolitan Museum, New York, owns three of Schreyer's oriental paintings: " Abandoned," " Arabs on the March " and " Arabs making a detour "; and many of his best pictures are in the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, J . J . Astor, W . Astor, A .

Belmont, and W . Walters collections . At the Kunsthalle in Hamburg is his " Wallachian Transport Train," and at the Staedel Institute, Frankfort, are two of his Wallachian scenes .