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SCHEITS (Scheutz), MATHIAS, born at Hamburg about 1640, died there in 1700. Dutch school; history and genre painter, pupil at Haarlem of Philip Wouwermans, later formed himself after Ostade, Teniers, and Pieter van Laar. Works: Peasant Family at Dinner, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Rebekah and Eliezer at the Well, Musical Entertainment, Battle Scene, Schwerin Gallery; Battle Scene, Göttingen University; Male Portrait, Cassel Gallery.—Hamburger K. Lex., 217; Nagler, xv. 171.

SCHELFHOUT, ANDREAS, born at The Hague, Feb. 16, 1787, died there, April 19, 1870. Landscape painter, pupil of Breckenheimer, and one of the most celebrated and prolific modern masters. Member of Amsterdam, Brussels, Ghent, and Hague Academies. Order of Lion, 1839; do. of Leopold, 1845; medals at Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, and The Hague. Works: Winter Landscape (1815); Frozen River with Skaters (1823), Ghent Museum; Landscapes (3), Amsterdam Museum; Landscapes and Marines (14), Fodor Museum, Amsterdam; Coast View, Winter Landscape, Scheveningen at Sunset, Rotterdam Museum; Winter Landscape, Ghent Museum; do., Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; do. (3, one dated 1858), Sheep driven through Village, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Ice Scene with Skaters (1829), Königsberg Museum; Winter Scene (1835), Sea Coast with Huts and People, New Pinakothek, Munich; Winter Landscape, Weimar Museum; others in Stuttgart Gallery and Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Immerzeel, iii. 64; Kramm, v. 1470; Kunst-Chronik, v. 180.

SCHELLINKS, WILLEM, born in Amsterdam in 1632, died there in 1678. Dutch school; history and landscape painter, travelled for several years in England, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. Works: Departure of Charles II. from Coast of Holland; Burning of English Fleet at Chatham, Six Collection, Amsterdam; Sacking of Convent, Landing Place on a River, Copenhagen Gallery; Mountainous Landscape with Robbers and Soldiers, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; others in Augsburg and St. Petersburg (2) Galleries.—Descamps, ii. 181; Immerzeel, iii. 66; Kramm, v. 1472.

SCHELVER, AUGUST FRANZ, born at Osnabrück in 1805, died in Munich in 1844. Genre and battle painter, pupil at Osnabrück of H. Neelmeyer, then studied in Munich, 1826-33, and returned there in 1834. Works: Battle of Hanau (1835), Königsberg Museum; Tyrolese Cart on Mountain Road (1843), New Pinakothek, Munich; others in Hanover and St. Petersburg Galleries.

SCHENAU (Schönau), JOHANN ELEAZAR, born at Gross-Schenau, Saxony, Nov. 7, 1740, died at Dresden in 1806. Real name Zeisig. History and genre painter, pupil of Bessler, and at Dresden Academy under Silvestre, who took him to Paris; patronized by the Dauphine, a Princess of Saxony, he formed himself in the manner of Chardin, Boucher, and Greuze; was called to Dresden in 1770, made member of the Academy, then professor in 1774, and assistant director in 1777. His works, while full of imagination and skilful in composition, are deficient in drawing. Works: Crucifixion (1790), Kreuzkirche, Dresden; Pandora; Icarus and Dædalus; Priam begging Achilles for the Body of his Son; Allegory on Recovery of the Electress; Old Man reading the Bible, Schwerin Gallery; Young Lady dancing before Mirror, Weimar Museum.—Nagler, xv. 181.

SCHENCK, AUGUST FREDERIC ALBRECHT, born at Glückstadt, Holstein,