Dordrecht 1795-Argenteuil 1858
Dutch painter, sculptor and lithographer, active in France. He became a French citizen in 1850. He received his earliest training in the studio of his parents, Johann-Bernhard Scheffer (1764-1809) and Cornelia Scheffer (1769-1839), who were both artists, as was his brother Henri Scheffer (1798-1862). He then attended the Amsterdam Teeken-Academie (1806-9). At the first Exhibition of Living Masters in Amsterdam in 1808 he showed Hannibal Swearing to Avenge the Death of his Brother Hasdrubal Related Paintings of Ary Scheffer :. | The Death of Gericault (26 January 1824) (mk05) | Mignon desires her fatherland | Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil | The Ghosts of Paolo and Francesca Appear to Dante and Virgil | Greek Women Imploring at the Virgin of Assistance | Related Artists:
Antonietta Brandeis (1849, Miskowitz (Czech: Myslkovice) - 1920), was an Austrian painter.[1][2]
Select Museum Collections: Museum Revoltella, Trieste
Circle of Mateo Cerezo the Youngerpainted Immaculate Virgin, formerly in the Chapel of Palacio de Penaranda, Spain in 17th century
Jean-Antoine Watteau1684-1721
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He is best known for his invention of a new genre, the fete galante, a small easel painting in which elegant people are depicted in conversation or music-making in a secluded parkland setting (see under FETE CHAMPETRE). His particular originality lies in the generally restrained nature of the amorous exchanges of his characters, which are conveyed as much by glance as by gesture, and in his mingling of figures in contemporary dress with others in theatrical costume, thus blurring references to both time and place.
Watteau work was widely collected during his lifetime and influenced a number of other painters in the decades following his death, especially in France and England. His drawings were particularly admired. Documented facts about Watteau life are notoriously few, though several friends wrote about him after his death (see Champion). Of over two hundred paintings generally accepted as his work