Ary Scheffer

Ary Scheffer
Self Portrait at the age of 43, c. 1838
Born(1795-02-10)10 February 1795
Dordrecht, Netherlands
Died15 June 1858(1858-06-15) (aged 63)
Argenteuil, France
NationalityDutch, French
Known forPainting
MovementRomanticism

Ary Scheffer (10 February 1795 – 15 June 1858) was a Dutch-French Romantic painter.[1] He was known mostly for his works based on literature, with paintings based on the works of Dante, Goethe, Lord Byron and Walter Scott,[2] as well as religious subjects. He was also a prolific painter of portraits of famous and influential people in his lifetime. Politically, Scheffer had strong ties to King Louis Philippe I, having been employed as a teacher of the latter's children, which allowed him to live a life of luxury for many years until the French Revolution of 1848.

  1. ^ Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Scheffer, Ary" . The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
  2. ^ Macmillan, Duncan (2023), Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art, Lund Humphries, London, pp. 167 - 182, ISBN 978-1-84822-633-3