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 of Eurydice, Galérie Chambert, Blois; Greek Exiles on a Rock looking toward their lost Country, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam; Count Eberhard of Würtemberg cutting the Table-Cloth, Eberhard the Weeper, Rotterdam Museum; Giving Alms, Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; Dante and Beatrice, Mr. Hemming; Christ weeping over Jerusalem, Mr. Robert Barnes; Return of the Prodigal Son; Christ Teaching Humility, Mr. John Aikin. Portraits: Béranger (1828); Odilon Barrot (1832); Duchess of Elchingen (1832); Artist's Mother (1835-39); Marshal Ney, Duke of Elchingen (1836); Artist (1838); Franz Lizst (1839); Madame Heine (1841); Rossini (1843); Lammenais (1845); Madame Guizot (1847); Henri Martin (1850); Lord Dufferin (1853); Princess Wittgenstein (1855); Manini (1857).—Art Journal (1858), 223, 252, 370; Bellier, ii. 474; Ch. Blanc, École française; Ch. Lenormant, Ary Scheffer (Paris, 1859); do., Beaux Arts et Voyages, i. 278; A. Etex, Ary Scheffer (Paris, 1859); J. Canonge, Pradier et Ary Scheffer (1858); Hofstede de Groot, Ary Scheffer (Bielefeld, 1870); Mrs. Grote, Memoir; Hamerton, French Painters, 42; Immerzeel, iii. 62; Kramm, v. 1458; Larousse, xiv. 341; Perrier, Études, 80; Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), i. 129; ii. 126; iii. 40; C. C. Perkins, American Church Review, April, 1872.

SCHEFFER, JOHANN BAPTIST, born at Mannheim in 1773, died at Amsterdam in 1809. History and portrait painter, pupil of Tischbein; went early to Holland and settled at Dordrecht. In 1809 he won the competitive prize for historical painting, with his Admiral Jacob Simonsz de Ryk in Prison. Works: Interior, Rotterdam Museum; Emperor Joseph II., Three other Male Portraits, Darmstadt Museum.

SCHEFFER, HENRI, born at The Hague, Sept. 27, 1798, died in Paris, March 15, 1861. French school; history and genre painter, brother of Ary Scheffer and pupil of Guérin. L. of Honour, 1837. Works: Don Juan Asleep in Haidee's Lap (1825); Charlotte Corday protected from the Mob (1830); Unfortunate Family (1830), Königsberg Museum; A Protestant Preacher (1831); Mme. Scheffer and her Children (1847); Dream of Charles IX. (1855); Battle of Cassel, Joan of Arc entering Orleans, Versailles Museum; Portraits of Carrel (1830), Arago (1837), and Thierry (1840); The First Born, Rotterdam Museum; etc.—Bellier, ii. 475; Revue des Deux Mondes (1843), ii. 271.

SCHEFFER VON LEONHARDSHOFF, JOHANN, Ritter, born in Vienna, Oct. 30, 1795, died there, June 12, 1822. History painter, pupil of Kreithner, an inferior painter; was sent to Italy by Prince Salm-Reifferscheid in 1815 and 1817, when he painted Pope Pius VII.; and visited Rome again in 1820, where he was befriended by Overbeck, whom he had taken for his model. Works: St. Cecilia playing the Organ, St. Ludovico (1820); St. Cecilia bewailed by Angels (1821), Vienna Museum.—Andresen, iii. 80; Wurzbach, xxix. 49.

SCHEIB, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH, born at Worms in 1737, died at Hamburg in 1810. Genre painter, pupil of Johann Konrad Seekatz, whom he imitated successfully; travelled through France, and settled in Hamburg, where he died in the poor-*house. Works: Conflagration at Night in a Village (2), Schwerin Gallery.—Schlie, 570.

SCHEINS, KARL LUDWIG, born at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1808, died at Düsseldorf, Oct. 23, 1879. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer; painted mostly woodland and mountain scenes of a melancholy character, somewhat monotonous in composition, but original and lively in treatment. Works: Winter Landscape with Figures, Düsseldorf Gallery; do., Leipsic Museum; Fir Wood in Black Forest (1852); Winter Scene in Evening Light (1855); Moonlight (1857).