Johann or Johan Bernard Scheffer (also Jean Baptist Scheffer), (1764 in Homberg,

Hesse-Kassel The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (), spelled Hesse-Cassel during its entire existence, also known as the Hessian Palatinate (), was a state of the Holy Roman Empire. The state was created in 1567 when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided upon t ...

– 30 June 1809 in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

) was a German-born painter and etcher active in the Netherlands and the father of the painter

Ary Scheffer Ary Scheffer (10 February 179515 June 1858) was a Dutch-French Romantic painter. He was known mostly for his works based on literature, with paintings based on the works of Dante, Goethe, Lord Byron and Walter Scott, Macmillan, Duncan (2023), ' ...

. He was the son of Johann Werner Scheffer (1730–1799) and Catharine Maria Pfluger (1731–1799) and a pupil of

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, known as the ''Leipziger Tischbein'' (9 March 1750, Maastricht - 21 June 1812, Heidelberg) was a German portrait painter from the Tischbein family of artists. Biography He received his first lessons from his ...

. By 1788 he lived and worked in

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and from 1790 in

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where in October 1794 he married the miniature painter Cornelia Lamme (1769–1839), daughter of the landscape painter

Arie Lamme Arie Lamme (8 January 174818 March 1801) was a Dutch landscape painter and poet. Early life and education Lamme was born at Heerjansdam and studied under Joris Ponse at Utrecht; he practiced in the style of Aelbert Cuyp. He was much engaged on d ...

. They had three sons who survived to adulthood: the portrait painter

(1795–1858), the journalist and writer Karel Arnold Scheffer (1796–1853) and the painter

Hendrik Scheffer Hendrik Scheffer (The Hague, 25 September 1798 – Paris, 15 March 1862) was a Dutch painter in the Romantic tradition who lived in France for most of his life. In France he is usually known as Henri Scheffer. Personal life Scheffer was the yo ...

(1798–1862). The family moved in 1798 from Dordrecht to

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, in 1801 to

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and in 1803 to

. Scheffer produced several large historical works, and some portraits, including one of King

Louis Bonaparte Louis Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846) was a younger brother of Napoleon, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a monarch in his own right from 1806 to 1810, ruling over the Kingdom of Holland (a French c ...

of Holland. In 1808 he became court painter of Louis Bonaparte in Amsterdam, but he died only a year later at the age of 44 or 45. He was buried 5 July 1809 in the

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.Johan Bernard Scheffer
in the

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Attribution: * 1764 births 1809 deaths 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters 19th-century painters of historical subjects Dutch court painters People from Vogelsbergkreis Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire to the Dutch Republic {{Netherlands-painter-stub