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He was born in 1795 in Dordrecht. Scheffer was the son of Johan Bernard Scheffer (1765–1809), a portrait painter born in Homberg upon Ohm or Kassel who had moved to the Netherlands in his youth, and Cornelia Lamme (1769–1839), a portrait miniature painter and daughter of the Dordrecht landscape painter Arie Lamme, after whom Arij (later Ary) was named. He had two brothers, the journalist and writer Karel Arnold Scheffer (1796–1853) and the painter Hendrik Scheffer (1798–1862).
He was taught by his parents and attended the Amsterdam drawing academy from the age of 11. He was taught by his parents and attended the Amsterdam drawing academy from the age of 11.
The moment at which Scheffer left Guerin coincided with the commencement of the Romantic movement. He had little sympathy with the directions given to it by either of its most conspicuous representatives, Sigalon, Delacroix or Gericault, and made various tentative efforts-" Gaston de Foix " (1824), " Suliot Women " (1827)-before he found his own path. Immediately after the exhibition of the last-named work he turned to Byron and Goethe, selecting from Faust a long series of subjects which had an extraordinary vogue. Of these, we may mention " Margaret at her Wheel " Faust Doubting " Margaret at the Sabbat " Margaret Leaving Church the " Garden Walk and lastly, perhaps the most popular of all, " Margaret at the Well. " The two " Mignons " appeared in 1836; and " Francesca da Rimini, " which is on the whole Scheffer's best work, belongs to the same period. He now turned to religious subjects: " Christus Consolator " (1836) was followed by " Christus Remunerator, " " The Shepherds Led by the Star " (1837), " The Magi Laying Down their Crowns, " " Christ in the Garden of Olives, " " Christ bearing his Cross, " " Christ Interred" (1845), " St Augustine and'Monica " (1846), after which he ceased to exhibit, but, shut up in his studio, continued to produce much which was first seen by the outer world after his death, which took place at Argenteuil on the 15th of June 1858. At the posthumous exhibition of his works there figured the " Sorrows of the Earth, " and the " Angel Announcing the Resurrection, ' ' which he had left unfinished. Amongst his numerous portraits those of La Fayette, Beranger, Lamartine and Marie Amelie were the most noteworthy. His reputation, much shaken by this posthumous exhibition, was further undermined by the sale of the Paturle Gallery, which contained many of his most celebrated achievements; the charm and facility of their composition could not save them from the condemnation provoked by their poor and earthy colour and vapid sentiment.
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Scheffer became associate member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1846, and resigned in 1851.
In 1850 Scheffer became a French citizen and married Sophie Marin, the widow of General Marie Étienne François Henri Baudrand, who died on 7 September 1848. Marin died six years later (1856).
He was a German-born painter and etcher active in the Netherlands and the father of the painter Ary Scheffer.
She was a Dutch painter and portrait miniaturist.
He was a Dutch painter in the Romantic tradition who lived in France for most of his life.
He was born in 1796 and died in 1853.
