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SCHOEFF, J., flourished at The Hague about 1640-60. Dutch school; landscape painter, whose style suggests the manner of Jan van Goyen, but even more of Pieter Molyn and Joris van der Hagen; bought the freedom of the city at The Hague in 1641. Works: Wood Landscape with Wanderers (1651), Schwerin Gallery; one (1641), A. Bredius, Amsterdam; River Landscape (1649), Van Gelder, The Hague; two (dated), Professor Lemcke, Aix-la-Chapelle.—Schlie, 576; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 175, 354; xvi. 60; xvii. 128.


SCHOEVAERDTS, MATHYS (Mathieu), born in Brussels about 1665, died there (?). Flemish school; landscape painter, pupil of A. F. Boudewyns in 1682; master of Brussels guild in 1690, its dean in 1692-94. Works: Landscapes with figures (2), Louvre; Promenade of the Fattened Ox, Fish Market, Brussels Museum; Village Kirmess, Berlin Museum; View of St. Cloud, Schleissheim Gallery; Fruit Market, Fish Market, Stockholm Museum; Landscape with Figures, Uffizi, Florence.—Fétis, Cat. Brussels Mus., 447; Kramm, v. 1482; Michiels, ix. 345.


SCHOLTEN, HENDRIK JACOBUS, born at Amsterdam, July 11, 1824. History and genre painter, pupil of Petrus Jacobus Greive. Works: The Widow of Oldenbarneveldt imploring Mercy of Prince Maurice for her Son (1855); Cornelis de Witt compelled to Annihilate the Eternal Edict (1857); Lady Jane Grey seeing her Husband led to the Scaffold; Plancius the Inventor of Sea Charts (1861); Preparations for the Journey; Morning Walk, Sunday Morning, Museum, Amsterdam; Stable with old Huntsman by his Dead Horse, Museum Fodor, ib.



SCHOLTZ, JULIUS, born at Breslau, Feb. 12, 1825. History painter, pupil of König in Breslau and of Dresden Academy under Julius Hübner. Visited Belgium and France; painted portraits in St. Petersburg for several months; settled in Dresden, where he is professor at the Academy. Member of Berlin Academy. Gold medal, Berlin. Works: Old Woman Praying (1850); Choir Boy (1854); Officer's Widow with her Children at Church (1859), New Pinakothek, Munich; Uhland's "Three Men crossed over the Rhine;" Episode of the Italian War (1859); Last Banquet of Wallenstein's Generals (1861), Carlsruhe Gallery; Volunteers of 1813 before Frederick William IV., Breslau Art Union; replica (1872), National Gallery, Berlin. In fresco: Life of Duke Albert, Albrechtsburg, Meissen.—Jordan (1885), ii. 208; Kaulen, 87.


SCHÖN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM, born at Worms in 1810, died at Munich in 1868. Genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy in 1832, took up painting in 1838, having at first (since 1826) practised lithography at Darmstadt and Carlsruhe; painted especially night scenes by lamp-and fire-light, afterwards also social political problems, in which he displayed a subtle knowledge of human character. Works: Girl Reading; Going to Church in the Berner Overland; Domino Players (1845); Sunday Morning in Black Forest (1846), Darmstadt Museum; Conversation in Peasant Room (1849), New Pinakothek, Munich; Return of the Soldier (1857); Scene from Hebel's Karfunkel; Southern Emigrants in North German Port; Artists' Union (with 50 portraits).—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1840-45); D. Kunstbl. (1850-57); Dioskuren (1860).


SCHÖN, MARTIN. See Schongauer.


SCHÖNBERGER, LORENZ, born at Vöslau, near Vienna, about 1770, died at Mentz in 1847. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Wutky. Visited Bohemia and Switzerland; resided some time in Italy, and went to Paris in 1804. Lived in Vienna, but travelled often in Germany, Holland, Belgium, and England. Member of