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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