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THE SARTORIUS FAMILY. 



John Sartorius. (Born «Vf a 1700. Died 1780.) 

 FRANCIS SARTORIUS. (Born 1734. Died 1804.) 

 John N. SARTORIUS. (Bom «Vca 1755. Bled circa 1828). 

 John F. sartorius. (Born circa 1775. Died circa 1831). 



' I 'HIS family furnishes a stril^ing instance of 

 -■■ hereditary talent. The artistic gifts which 

 have made the name of Sartorius famous were 

 possessed in greater or less degree by five con- 

 secutive generations of the family ; for John's father, 

 Jacob Christopher Sartorius, was an engraver of 

 Nuremberg, whose plates bear dates from the 

 year 1694 to 1737 inclusive. Jacob Christopher, 

 so far as we have been able to discover, did 

 not devote himself to pictures of animal life or 

 of sporting interest, and he therefore demands 

 at our hands none of the attention which is the 

 meed of his descendants. 



The published records of the lives of John, 

 Francis, John N. and John F. Sartorious, are 

 very meagre ; they seem to have been compiled 

 from such information as the biographer chanced 



