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of Eurydice, Galérie Chambert, Blois; Greek Exiles on a Rock looking toward their lost Country, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam; Count Eberhard of Würtemberg cutting the Table-Cloth, Eberhard the Weeper, Rotterdam Museum; Giving Alms, Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; Dante and Beatrice, Mr. Hemming; Christ weeping over Jerusalem, Mr. Robert Barnes; Return of the Prodigal Son; Christ Teaching Humility, Mr. John Aikin. Portraits: Béranger (1828); Odilon Barrot (1832); Duchess of Elchingen (1832); Artist's Mother (1835-39); Marshal Ney, Duke of Elchingen (1836); Artist (1838); Franz Lizst (1839); Madame Heine (1841); Rossini (1843); Lammenais (1845); Madame Guizot (1847); Henri Martin (1850); Lord Dufferin (1853); Princess Wittgenstein (1855); Manini (1857).—Art Journal (1858), 223, 252, 370; Bellier, ii. 474; Ch. Blanc, École française; Ch. Lenormant, Ary Scheffer (Paris, 1859); do., Beaux Arts et Voyages, i. 278; A. Etex, Ary Scheffer (Paris, 1859); J. Canonge, Pradier et Ary Scheffer (1858); Hofstede de Groot, Ary Scheffer (Bielefeld, 1870); Mrs. Grote, Memoir; Hamerton, French Painters, 42; Immerzeel, iii. 62; Kramm, v. 1458; Larousse, xiv. 341; Perrier, Études, 80; Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), i. 129; ii. 126; iii. 40; C. C. Perkins, American Church Review, April, 1872.
SCHEFFER, JOHANN BAPTIST, born at Mannheim in 1773, died at Amsterdam in 1809. History and portrait painter, pupil of Tischbein; went early to Holland and settled at Dordrecht. In 1809 he won the competitive prize for historical painting, with his Admiral Jacob Simonsz de Ryk in Prison. Works: Interior, Rotterdam Museum; Emperor Joseph II., Three other Male Portraits, Darmstadt Museum.
SCHEFFER, HENRI, born at The Hague,
Sept. 27, 1798, died in Paris, March 15, 1861.
French school; history and genre painter,
brother of Ary Scheffer and pupil of Guérin.
L. of Honour, 1837. Works: Don
Juan Asleep in Haidee's Lap (1825); Charlotte
Corday protected from the Mob (1830);
Unfortunate Family (1830), Königsberg Museum;
A Protestant Preacher (1831); Mme.
Scheffer and her Children (1847); Dream
of Charles IX. (1855); Battle of Cassel, Joan
of Arc entering Orleans, Versailles Museum;
Portraits of Carrel (1830), Arago (1837), and
Thierry (1840); The First Born, Rotterdam
Museum; etc.—Bellier, ii. 475; Revue des
Deux Mondes (1843), ii. 271.
SCHEFFER VON LEONHARDSHOFF,
JOHANN, Ritter, born in Vienna, Oct.
30, 1795, died there, June 12, 1822. History
painter, pupil of Kreithner, an inferior
painter; was sent to Italy by Prince Salm-Reifferscheid
in 1815 and 1817, when he
painted Pope Pius VII.; and visited Rome
again in 1820, where he was befriended by
Overbeck, whom he had taken for his model.
Works: St. Cecilia playing the Organ,
St. Ludovico (1820); St. Cecilia bewailed
by Angels (1821), Vienna Museum.—Andresen,
iii. 80; Wurzbach, xxix. 49.
SCHEIB, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH,
born at Worms in 1737, died at Hamburg
in 1810. Genre painter, pupil of Johann
Konrad Seekatz, whom he imitated successfully;
travelled through France, and settled
in Hamburg, where he died in the poor-*house.
Works: Conflagration at Night in a
Village (2), Schwerin Gallery.—Schlie, 570.
SCHEINS, KARL LUDWIG, born at
Aix-la-Chapelle in 1808, died at Düsseldorf,
Oct. 23, 1879. Landscape painter,
pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Johann
Wilhelm Schirmer; painted mostly
woodland and mountain scenes of a melancholy
character, somewhat monotonous in
composition, but original and lively in treatment.
Works: Winter Landscape with Figures,
Düsseldorf Gallery; do., Leipsic Museum;
Fir Wood in Black Forest (1852);
Winter Scene in Evening Light (1855);
Moonlight (1857).