Dutch painter (b. 1580, Antwerpen, d. 1666, Haarlem). Related Paintings of HALS, Frans :. | Catharina Hooft with her Nurse | Regents of the St Elizabeth Hospital of Haarlem | Samuel Ampzing sf | Portrait of a Man in a Slouch Hat | St Luke | Related Artists: Ary Scheffer 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 asillia guillen