Johann Baptist Scheffer
Illustration — Self-portrait c. 1808 Johann or Johan Bernard Scheffer (also Jean Baptist Scheffer; 1764 – 30 June 1809) was a German-born painter and etcher active in the Netherlands and the father of the painter Ary Scheffer. He was the son of Johann Werner Scheffer (1730–1799) and Catharine Maria Pfluger (1731–1799) and a pupil of Johann Friedrich August Tischbein.
Also recorded as Johan Bernard Scheffer · Jean Baptiste Scheffer · Jean-Baptiste Scheffer · J. B. Scheffer
Johann Baptist Scheffer
Johann Baptist Scheffer · Paris Musées · Public domain
- Died
- 1809 · Amsterdam.
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic · Holy Roman Empire
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker
- Fields
- history · portrait
- Known for
- Joanna Cornelia Ziesenis-Wattier (1762-1827). Toneelspeelster, in de rol van Elfride in het gelijknamige toneelstuk van Friedrich Justin Bertuch · Portrait of Gerrit van der Pot, Lord of Groeneveld and Art Collector in Rotterdam
- Languages
- Dutch
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Illustration — Self-portrait c. 1808 Johann or Johan Bernard Scheffer (also Jean Baptist Scheffer; 1764 – 30 June 1809) was a German-born painter and etcher active in the Netherlands and the father of the painter Ary Scheffer. He was the son of Johann Werner Scheffer (1730–1799) and Catharine Maria Pfluger (1731–1799) and a pupil of Johann Friedrich August Tischbein.
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Born at Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in 1765, died in Amsterdam in 1809.
The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history and portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Utrecht, Dordrecht and Rotterdam. Positions recorded include court painter. Works named in the authority record are Joanna Cornelia Ziesenis-Wattier (1762-1827). Work by Johann Baptist Scheffer is recorded in the collections of Centraal Museum, Dordrechts Museum, Musée de la Vie romantique, Rijksmuseum and Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
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Bad Homburg vor der Höhe.
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Leo Ewals, Ary Scheffer, 1795-1858: gevierd romanticus, Waanders, 1996
- 2.John A. Fritchey, Ancestry of Margaret Ann (Fritchey) Trahan, 1969
- 3.Sander Paarlberg, Ary Scheffer , in the Biographical Dictionary of Dordrecht. (in Dutch)
- 4.Lamme, Cornelia in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland.
- 5.Johan Bernard Scheffer in the RKD
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