Scheffer

Scheffer, ARY, a French painter of Dutch extraction, was born in 1795, and exhibited at the age of twelve. He achieved considerable success as a gerne-painter with such productions as La Veuve du Soldat and Le Retour du Conscrit. Later he produced his well-known illustrations of Faust, Mignon, Francesca da Rimini, Dante and Beatrice, and the Giaour, between 1827 and 1836, He was now drawn to religious subjects, and during the next ten years painted Christus Consolator, Christus Remunerator, St. Augustine and Monica, and other kindred works. He died in 1858.