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 political career he was singularly sincere and upright in conviction and aims. As an artist he cannot be said to take a high rank, though few modern painters have enjoyed a greater degree of present popularity. His drawing is correct, and his taste refined and elevated, but his merit lies rather in poetry of sentiment and in a certain devotional fervour, than in individuality of treat- ment or artistic handling, while as a colourist his shortcomings are very marked. He died at Argenteuil, near Paris, on the 15th June, 1858. The following are among the better examples of his work : F. S.

Ijlle. Museum. ' The Dead ride fast." London. Nat. Gallery. SS. Augustine and Monica. „ „ Portrait of Mrs. Robert Holland. „ IVat. Port. Gall. Portrait of Charles Dickens. Marseilles. Museum. Mary Magdalen. Montpellier. „ A Philosopher. Nantes. „ The Charitable Child. Paris. Louvre. Eberhard of 'WuTtemberg. „ „ The Death of Gericault. The Vow of the Suliot 'Women. Rotterdam. Gallery. Eberhard of 'Wurtemberg cut- ting the cloth. „ Eberhard mourning his son Ulrich. „ „ Three sketches. Versailles. Gallery. Gaston de Foix found dead after Ravenna. 1824. „ ., The Battle of Tolbiac. „ „ Charlemagne dictating his Ordinances. 1S29. „ „ Charlemagne receiving the submission of AVittekiud. 1836. „ „ Philip Augustus entering Paris. „ „ St. Louis entrusts the Regency to the Queen. „ „ The Entry of Charles VII. into Rheims. „ „ Entry of Louis XII. into Genoa. „ „ Louis Philippe receiving the 1st Regiment of Hussars. Faust's Vision of Margaret. Margaret in the Church. Portraits of Lamartine ; Ijamennais ; Madame Gnizot, senr. ; his Mother; Charles Gounod; Frai^kVu ; Madame Taglioni ; Himself.

SCHEFFER, Hesdbik, painter brother of Ary Scheffer, boru at the Hague in 1798, was also a pupil of Gu^rin. He was not without merit, though far behind his brother. His drawing was incorrect, and his colour cold. His principal work was a 'Charlotte Corday,' and we may also mention: An Inundation in Rome. I Joan of Arc. Hermann and Dorothea. | Madame Roland. Preaching after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Battle of Monte Cassel. [J'ersailles.) He died in Pans in 1861.

SCHEFFER, Joh.4NK Baptist, painter and etcher, born at Cassel in 1773, a pupil of Tischbein, went early to Holland, where at Dort he married Cornelia Lamme and became the father of Ary Scheffer. He produced several large historical works, and some portraits ; among the latter that of King Louis of Holland. He died at Amsterdam in 1809.

SCHEFFER von LEONHARDSHOFF, Johann Evangelist, painter, born at Vienna in 1795, became a pupil of the Academy. His talents, however, attracted the attention of the Graf Franz von Salm- Reifferscheidt, prince-bishop of Gurk, who sup- plied him with the means to go to Italy. In 1817 he painted the portrait of Pope Pius VII., who created him a Knight of the Order of Christ. On his return to Vienna he painted a 'St. Cecilia' for Prince Albert of Sachsen-Teschen, and then re- turned to Rome. There he produced his master- piece, 'The Dying Cecilia, supported by two Angels,' now in the Vienna Gallery. He died at Vienna in 1822.

SCHEFFER, Jean Gabriel, painter, born at Geneva in 1797, was a pupil of Regnault, and prac- tised for many years in Paris, exhibiting occasion- ally at the Salon. Among his works there shown were : ' The Good Samaritan,' ' Woman of Albano,' ' Conjugating the Verb to Love' (in ten tableaux). He also published a number of lithographs, forming various series, under the following names : ' Les Grisettes,' ' Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense,' 'Le Diable Boiteux a Paris.' He last appeared at tho Salon in 1846.

SCHEFFER, Paul, a German painter, who is mentioned by De' Domenici as having painted pictures for the church of San Severino at Naples, in 1560.

SCHEFFERS, N., a Dutch historical painter, born at Utrecht. He came to England when still young to practise his art, and had at first to submit to much disappointment and hardship. Later he gained the notice of the painter Verrio, who em- ployed him as his assistant.

SCHEFFLER. See Schafler.

SCHEGA, Franz Andreas, die-cutter and en- graver, is better known by his medals and portraits in relief than by his pictures. He was bom at Neustadt in Carniola in 1710. The son of a gun- maker, he for a time followed his father's trade, in which he gave evidence of artistic talent by the skill with which he engraved his guns. Late in life he painted portraits in pastel, some of which he himself engraved. He became blind in 1780, and died at Munich on Dec. 6, 1787.

SCHEGGIA. See GniDi, Tommaso.

SCHEIE, Christian Friedrich, painter, bom at Worms in 1737, was a pupil of Seekatz, whose style he copied. After travelling through France, he settled at Hamburg. He painted small pictures in oils and water-colours, principally fire effects. He died in the workhouse at Hamburg in 1810.

SCHEINDEL. See Scheyndel.

SCHEINS, Karl Lddwig, painter, was bom at Aix-Ja-Chapelle in 1808. He studied at Diisseldorf under Schimier, and painted mostly woodland and mountain scenes. He died at Diisseldorf in 1879.

SCHEITZ, Andreas, (Schedtz,) son of Matthias Scheit!!, painter and etcher, was born at Hamburg in 1665. He followed the style of his father. He was painter to the Court of Hanover, where he died.

SCHEITZ, Matthias, was born at Hamburg about the year 1645, and was a follower of Philips Wouwcrman, whose style he afterwards abandoned for that of David Teniers. He designed a series of Scriptural illustrations, which were engraved by J. de Visscher and others, and published at Luneburg in 1672. He died about 1700. He etched fourteen plates from his own designs, in a bold, free style, among which the following may be named :

The Four Seasons, symbolized by the Sports of Children ; in fourplates ; M. Scheit:, fee. 1671. Two Landscapes, with figures dancing. An old Man playing on the Violin, and a 'Woman singing before the dcor of a Cottage. The Spectacle Merchant.

There are pictures by him at Pommersfeld, Schwerin, Brunswick, and Cassel.

SCHEL, Sebastian, a German painter, of the