22 Facts About Ary Scheffer

Ary Scheffer was a Dutch-French Romantic painter.

Ary Scheffer was known mostly for his works based on literature, with paintings based on the works of Dante, Goethe, Lord Byron and Walter Scott, as well as religious subjects.

Ary Scheffer was a prolific painter of portraits of famous and influential people in his lifetime.

Ary Scheffer had two brothers, the journalist and writer Karel Arnold Scheffer and the painter Hendrik Scheffer.

Ary Scheffer's parents educated him and he attended the drawing academy in Amsterdam from the age of 11 years.

Ary Scheffer started exhibiting at the Salon de Paris in 1812.

Ary Scheffer began to be recognized in 1817, and in 1819 he was asked to make a portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette.

Cornelia Ary Scheffer became a sculptor and painter in her own right.

Ary Scheffer's mother did not know of her namesake granddaughter until 1837, after which she cared for her until she died only two years later.

Ary Scheffer became an associate member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1846, and resigned in 1851.

Ary Scheffer was elevated as commander of the Legion of Honour in 1848.

Ary Scheffer fought in the army of Cavaignac during the June Days Uprising in Paris of 23 to 26 June 1848.

Ary Scheffer continued to frequently travel to the Netherlands, and traveled to Belgium, Germany, and England, but a heart condition impaired his activity and eventually caused his death in 1858 in his summer house in Argenteuil.

Ary Scheffer did not show much affinity with their work and developed his own style, which has been called "frigidly classical".

Ary Scheffer often painted subjects from literature, especially the works of Dante, Byron and Goethe.

Ary Scheffer was an accomplished portrait painter, finishing 500 portraits in total.

Ary Scheffer's subjects included composers Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt, the Marquis de la Fayette, Pierre-Jean de Beranger, Alphonse de Lamartine, Charles Dickens, Duchess de Broglie, Talleyrand and Queen Marie Amelie.

Ary Scheffer was made commander of the Legion of Honour in 1848, that is, after he had wholly withdrawn from the Salon.

Louis and Ary Scheffer has always been my dearest of friends, and it is sad, that I was never able to respond to the hot and deep love of Louis, despite all my volition.

Ary Scheffer was married to Louis Viardot at 18 years old, when her husband was a director of an Italian opera house in Paris and a friend of Scheffer.

Ary Scheffer was a confidant of Pauline Viardot and a friend of her family until his death.

In 1850 Ary Scheffer became a French citizen and married Sophie Marin, the widow of General Marie Etienne Francois Henri Baudrand.