Dordrecht 1795-Argenteuil 1858 Dutch painter, sculptor and lithographer, active in France. He became a French citizen in 1850. He received his earliest training in the studio of his parents, Johann-Bernhard Scheffer (1764-1809) and Cornelia Scheffer (1769-1839), who were both artists, as was his brother Henri Scheffer (1798-1862). He then attended the Amsterdam Teeken-Academie (1806-9). At the first Exhibition of Living Masters in Amsterdam in 1808 he showed Hannibal Swearing to Avenge the Death of his Brother Hasdrubal   Related Paintings of Ary Scheffer :. | Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil | The Death of Gericault (26 January 1824) (mk05) | The Ghosts of Paolo and Francesca Appear to Dante and Virgil | Mignon desires her fatherland | la mort de gericault |
Related Artists:
Frans Jansz van Mierisi
1635-1681 Dutch Frans Jansz van Mierisi Gallery
Peter Graham
painted Spate in the Highlands e1868
Isaak Soreau
painted Basket with fruit and plum leaves in c. 1640