Hendrik Scheffer

Training under Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin is recorded. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is recorded as having studied under Hendrik Scheffer. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Works named in the authority record are The Battle of Cassel on 23rd August 1328 and Entry of Joan of Arc into liberated Orléans on 8th May 1429. Work by Hendrik Scheffer is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Dordrechts Museum, Musée de l'Histoire de France, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Musée de la Vie romantique.

• Name — Hendrik Scheffer • Born — 25 September 1798 • Birthplace — The Hague, Netherlands • Died — 15 March 1862 • Place of death — Paris, France • Field — Painting • Training — Pierre-Narcisse Guérin • Movement — Romanticism

Scheffer was the younger brother of painter Ary Scheffer, son of Johann Baptist and Cornelia Scheffer and grandson of Arie Lamme. When his father died in 1809, his mother first moved to Brussels and in 1811 to Paris. His daughter Cornélie married French philosopher Ernest Renan. Their son Ary Renan also became a painter.

Scheffers, like his brother Ary, was a pupil of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. His work was much sought after in his lifetime. He mainly painted genre pieces and portraits which were finely crafted. His work was exhibited at the Salon from the Salon of 1824 onwards and was heavily criticised by Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier. Scheffers best known work is probably a picture portraying the arrest of Charlotte Corday (now in the Musée Lambinet), some selected others: • Louis-Joseph de Vendôme (now in the musée de Vendôme) • François Arago, the basis for the well known engraving by Alexandre Vincent Sixdeniers • Armand Carrel • Casimir Delavigne (now in musée national du château et des Trianons, in the Palace of Versailles) • Ernest Renan (now in the Musée de la Vie Romantique) • Augustin Thierry Selected other works: • An Inundation in Rome • Joan of Arc entering Orléans (now in Versailles) • Hermann and Dorothea • Madame Roland • Preaching after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes • The Battle of Cassel (now in Versailles) • The dream of Charles IX in the night of St. Bartholomew, based on the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre His work has been copied many times in engravings. The Dordrechts Museum has a section dedicated to the work of the Scheffers (mainly his brother Ary).

• Illustration — Christ on the Mount of Olives in the church of Chalifert • Illustration — Entry of Joan of Arc into liberated Orléans on 8th May 1429 • Illustration — The Battle of Cassel, 1837 • Illustration — Amaury VI de Montfort • Illustration — Don Juan asleep on Haidée's lap, circa 1827 • Illustration — Blaise de Monluc, 1834 (commissioned by Louis Philippe I) • Illustration — Conseil des ministres (1838) • Illustration — The Arrest of Charlotte Corday, 1830 • Illustration — Portrait of Armand Carrel, 1833

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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Institutional cataloguing adds that hendrik Scheffer is recorded with the occupation painter. It is also recorded that hendrik Scheffer is recorded with the occupation draftsperson. Recorded as a citizen of France. It is also recorded that hendrik Scheffer is recorded with the gender male. It is also recorded that hendrik Scheffer was born on 25 September 1798. It is also recorded that hendrik Scheffer died on 15 March 1862. Institutional cataloguing adds that hendrik Scheffer worked at Paris. It is also recorded that hendrik Scheffer is classed in the genre portrait. Associated with Romanticism.