Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Scheffer, Ary

SCHEFFER, ARY, a French painter, son of Johann Baptist (a German historical painter); born in Dordrecht, Holland, Feb. 12, 1795; studied under Guérin in Paris, and began his artistic career as a painter of genre pictures. Under the influence of the romanticism of the early 19th century he produced numerous pieces illustrative of Goethe's, Byron's, and Dante's works, such as &ldquo;Margaret at the Well,&rdquo; &ldquo;Faust in His Study,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Dante and Beatrice in Heaven.&rdquo; Shortly after 1835 he turned to religious subjects, and painted &ldquo;Christus Remunerator,&rdquo; &ldquo;Christus Consolator,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Temptation of Christ,&rdquo; &ldquo;St. Augustine and Monica,&rdquo; etc. His best portraits were of the Duchess de Broglie, Prince Talleyrand, Queen Amélie, Liszt, La Fayette, Béranger, and Lamartine. He died in Argenteuil, near Paris, June 15, 1858.