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SCHEITS (Scheutz), MATHIAS, born at
Hamburg about 1640, died there in 1700.
Dutch school; history and genre painter,
pupil at Haarlem of Philip Wouwermans,
later formed himself after Ostade, Teniers,
and Pieter van Laar. Works: Peasant Family
at Dinner, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Rebekah
and Eliezer at the Well, Musical Entertainment,
Battle Scene, Schwerin Gallery;
Battle Scene, Göttingen University;
Male Portrait, Cassel Gallery.—Hamburger
K. Lex., 217; Nagler, xv. 171.
SCHELFHOUT, ANDREAS, born at The
Hague, Feb. 16, 1787,
died there, April 19,
1870. Landscape
painter, pupil of
Breckenheimer, and
one of the most celebrated
and prolific
modern masters.
Member of Amsterdam,
Brussels, Ghent,
and Hague Academies.
Order of Lion, 1839; do. of Leopold,
1845; medals at Antwerp, Brussels,
Ghent, and The Hague. Works: Winter
Landscape (1815); Frozen River with Skaters
(1823), Ghent Museum; Landscapes (3),
Amsterdam Museum; Landscapes and Marines
(14), Fodor Museum, Amsterdam;
Coast View, Winter Landscape, Scheveningen
at Sunset, Rotterdam Museum; Winter
Landscape, Ghent Museum; do., Raczynski
Gallery, Berlin; do. (3, one dated
1858), Sheep driven through Village, Kunsthalle,
Hamburg; Ice Scene with Skaters
(1829), Königsberg Museum; Winter Scene
(1835), Sea Coast with Huts and People,
New Pinakothek, Munich; Winter Landscape,
Weimar Museum; others in Stuttgart
Gallery and Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Immerzeel,
iii. 64; Kramm, v. 1470;
Kunst-Chronik, v. 180.
SCHELLINKS, WILLEM, born in Amsterdam
in 1632, died there in 1678. Dutch
school; history and landscape painter, travelled
for several years in England, France,
Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. Works:
Departure of Charles II. from Coast of Holland;
Burning of English Fleet at Chatham,
Six Collection, Amsterdam; Sacking
of Convent, Landing Place on a River, Copenhagen
Gallery; Mountainous Landscape
with Robbers and Soldiers, Städel Gallery,
Frankfort; others in Augsburg and St. Petersburg
(2) Galleries.—Descamps, ii. 181;
Immerzeel, iii. 66; Kramm, v. 1472.
SCHELVER, AUGUST FRANZ, born at
Osnabrück in 1805, died in Munich in 1844.
Genre and battle painter, pupil at Osnabrück
of H. Neelmeyer, then studied in
Munich, 1826-33, and
returned there in 1834.
Works: Battle of
Hanau (1835), Königsberg Museum; Tyrolese
Cart on Mountain Road (1843), New
Pinakothek, Munich; others in Hanover
and St. Petersburg Galleries.
SCHENAU (Schönau), JOHANN ELEAZAR,
born at Gross-Schenau, Saxony, Nov.
7, 1740, died at Dresden in 1806. Real
name Zeisig. History and genre painter,
pupil of Bessler, and at Dresden Academy
under Silvestre, who took him to Paris; patronized
by the Dauphine, a Princess of Saxony,
he formed himself in the manner of
Chardin, Boucher, and Greuze; was called
to Dresden in 1770, made member of the
Academy, then professor in 1774, and assistant
director in 1777. His works, while
full of imagination and skilful in composition,
are deficient in drawing. Works:
Crucifixion (1790), Kreuzkirche, Dresden;
Pandora; Icarus and Dædalus; Priam
begging Achilles for the Body of his Son;
Allegory on Recovery of the Electress;
Old Man reading the Bible, Schwerin Gallery;
Young Lady dancing before Mirror,
Weimar Museum.—Nagler, xv. 181.
SCHENCK, AUGUST FREDERIC ALBRECHT,
born at Glückstadt, Holstein,