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Identifier: famouspainterspa00shed (find matches)
Title: Famous painters and paintings
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Shedd, Julia Ann Clark, 1834-1897
Subjects: Painters Painting
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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as possessed of acompetent fortune, studied painting under Tischbein,and practised it as a profession, painting portraits andinteriors. He established himself at Dordrecht, wherehe married a lady of talent and taste, who practisedminiature-painting and engraving. Under the reign ofLouis Napoleon in Holland, he was appointed painter tothat prince. He died at Amsterdam in 1809. Ary Scheffer, son of John Baptist Scheffer, wasborn at Dordrecht in 1795. He early displayed a tastefor drawing, and was instructed by his father. Whenhe was only twelve years old he exhibited a picture atAmsterdam which was much admired. On the deathof his father, the care of the education of Ary and histwo brothers devolved upon Madame Scheffer, whoseincome was considerably reduced, being partially de-spoiled by the Frencli imperial government. In 1811the family removed to Paris, where Ary was placed as apupil with Pierre Gu^rin. Before he was eighteen yearsof age, the necessities of his mothers position caused
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; NEW YORKIC LIBRARY ASTOR. LENOX.DcN FOUNOATIttNS- 1795.) SCHEFFER. 287 him to commence producing small works, somewhat inthe style of Greuze, but always chaste in sentiment,and not unfrequently tinged with a hue of melancholy.In 1816 he obtained the great prize at Antwerp for astudy on the subject of Abraham and the Three Angels,which is preserved in the museum of that city. Laterappeared his Mort de Saint-Louis, Le Devoueraent desBourgeois de Calais ; also genre pieces, such as LaYeuve du Soldat, Le Retour du Conscrit, La Sceur deCharity. Compared with his later performances, theseworks have little merit. His reputation in high art was first established in1822, by his picture of the Shades of Francesca daRimini and her Lover Appearing to Dante and Virgil.This was followed in 1824 by liis Gaston de Foix FoundDead after his Victory at Ravenna, whicli is in tlieHistorical Museum at Versailles. In 1825 aj)pearcd LcsFcmmes Suliotes. These works were an innovationupon the antique classic

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