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Supper, Adoration of the Lamb (1538), Ulm Cathedral; Male Portrait, Vienna Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Keane, Early Masters, 158; Heideloff, K. des Mittelalt. in Schwaben, 120; Kugler (Crowe), i. 177; Nagler, Mon., iii. 561; Thausing (Eaton), Dürer, i. 173; W. & W., ii. 401; Zeitschr. f. B. K., ii. 244.


SCHÄUFELIN, HANS, the younger, born at Nördlingen, whence he removed to Freiburg, in 1543, died (?). German school; son of Hans Leonhardin Schäufelin, to whom some of his paintings are wrongly attributed. Works: Female portrait (1568), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg.—Nagler, Mon., iii. 582; W. & W., ii. 403.


SCHAUMANN, HEINRICH, born at Tübingen, Würtemberg, Feb. 2, 1841. Genre painter, pupil of Stuttgart Art School under Rustige, Neher, and Funk; removed in 1864 to Munich, whence he repeatedly visited England, France, the Netherlands, and Italy. Many of his works are in England and America. Medal for Art and Science. Works: Monkey playing with Dog, New Pinakothek, Munich; Invitation to Wedding in Suabia, St. Gall Museum; Festival at Cannstadt (1877), Stuttgart Museum; Election Agitation (1882).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 833; Müller, 462.


SCHAUSS, FERDINAND, born in Berlin in 1832. Genre, figure, and portrait painter, pupil of Steffeck, and in Paris of Cogniet; visited England, Holland, Belgium, Italy, and Spain, studying especially the portraits by the old masters. Became professor at the Weimar Art School, in 1873, but returned to Berlin in 1876. His female and children's portraits are distinguished for delicate colouring and refined treatment. Works: Callisto and Diana (1870, bought by Austrian Government), Dryad; Genevieve; Leander; Still-life, Ravené Gallery, Berlin.—Müller, 463; Rosenberg. Berl. Malersch., 229; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 107, 214.


SCHEBUJEFF, WASSILY KOSMICH, born at Cronstadt in 1776, died in 1855. History painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy, and studied in Rome in 1803-7. Professor and rector of the Academy. Works: Death of Hippolytus; Assumption (1807) St. John in the Desert (1810), Patriot Igolkine (1839), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.


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SCHEFFER, ARY, born at Dordrecht, Feb. 10, 1797, died at Argenteuil, June 15, 1858. History and portrait painter, son of Johann Baptist Scheffer; pupil of Guérin. Sympathizing neither with the classic school represented by his master, nor with the romantic led by Géricault and Delacroix, Scheffer took up a class of subjects which showed his sympathy with the cause of freedom, such as the Suliote Women, an episode of the Greek war, and the Battle of Morat. Influenced by Ingres, he sought and obtained greater purity of form, and painted subjects from Goethe and Byron. In 1836 he was appointed art instructor to the Orléans family, and directed the studies of the Princess Marie in sculpture. In 1836 he accompanied the Duc d' Orléans and General Baudrand, whose widow he afterwards married, to the siege of Antwerp, and after his return painted several military episodes for Versailles. Between 1835 and 1848 he produced his greatest works, the Christus Consolator and Judex, the Francesca and the Mignons. When the Revolution broke out Scheffer assisted the King and his family in their escape from Paris, and then went to Holland and England for rest. The coup d'état of 1852, which gave Louis Napoleon the throne, was a blow to his hopes which finally disgusted him with politics, from which he withdrew altogether. Five years later, after a last visit to England, he lost his friends Manin