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PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.


his independent work with some plates after Scliall. His principal work was the 'Madonna di Foligno,' after Raphael. Other plates are a portrait of Henry IV. of France, at the age of fifteen, and one of Wieland, after Kiigelgen. He died in 1822.

SCHERENBEKG, Hewians, German painter; bom January 20, 1826, at Swinemiinde ; became a pupil at the Berlin Academy in 1842, and also studied at Diisseldorf under Theodor Hildebrandt. After residence at Antwerp he returned to his home, and some years later entered Couture's studio in Paris. His first picture exhibited at Berlin was 'Die Uiigleichen Schwestern,' and he also helped Biirger to complete the decoration of the Berlin Rathshaus. As an illustrator Scherenberg stood with the first, and for years was a constant con- tributor to the ' lUustrirte Zeitung,' ' Kladdera- datsch,' and ' Fliegende Blatter.' He died at Gross Lichtcifelde, near Berlin, August 21, 1897.

SCHERM, LoRENZ, engraver, born in the Rhine provinces about 1690, went to Amsterdam, and worked there from 1720 to 1735. His works are mainly architectural, but he also engraved a few landscapes with figures.

SCHERMIER, Cornelis, a Flemish decorative painter, who in the 16th century worked for the church of S. Gudule at Brussels.

SCHERTL, Joseph, landscape painter, was bom at Augsburg in 1810. He began his studies with a lithographer in his own city, and then, in 1832, went to Munich, and studied landscape under Fohr and Morgenstem. He is principally known by his pictures of the neiglibourhood of Munich. He died at Munich in 1869.

SCHETKY, John Alexander, a brother of Jolin Christian Schetky, was born at Edinburgh in 1785. He was educated for the medical profession, and was appointed Assistant-Surgeon to tbe 3rd Dra- goon Guards, and with his regiment joined the army in the Peninsula. He was attached to the 7th Division under Lord Dalhousie, and served till the end of the war. During this time all his spare moments were taken up with drawing from nature, and he sent home a number of sketches illustrative of the scenery in the Pyrenees, which showed a decided originality and much imagination. His artistic power was afterwards devoted principally to the delineation of external and internal pathology, and after his appointment to the General Hospital at Fort Pitt, Cliatliam, he contributed many valuable drawings to the Museum of Morbid Anatomy estab- lished by Sir James M'Grigor. He was promoted to the post of Deputy Inspector of Hospitals on the coast of Africa, and died off Cape Coast Castle in 1824.

SCHETKY, John Christian, bom at Edinburgh in 1778, was a pupil of Nasmyth, and devoted him- self to marine painting in the style of Vandevelde. He held the appointment of Professor of Civil Drawing at the Roynl Military College at Great Marlow, the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, and the East India College at Addiscombe, successively, during a period of forty-seven years. He was appointed painter in water-colours to William, Duke of Clarence, and was marine painter to George IV., William IV., and Queen Victoria respectively. His painting of marine subjects is respectable, and his accuracy in minute details of naval architecture unsurpassed. His principal works are : ' The Battle off Cape La Hogue;' 'The Endymion Frigate, Admiral Sir Charles Paget, relieving a French Man- of-War ashore on a rock-boimd coast ; ' ' The Battle of Trafalgar;' and 'The Sinking of the Royal George.' The last-named is row in the National Gallery. Schetky died in London in 1874.

SCHEUBEL, JoHANN Joseph (I), painter, born at Ratisbon about 1675, was painter to the Prince Bishop, at whose expense he was sent to Venice. On his return he painted altar-pictures for the church of St. Stephen at Bamberg, (a ' Stoning of Stephen,' a ' Descent from the Cross,' &c.) an altar- piece for the Jakobskirche, and a ceiling for the Gangolfskirclie. He died at Ratisbon in 1778.

SCHEUBEL, JoHANN Joseph (II), painter, son of Johann Scheubel, born at Bamberg about 1720, was pupil of Georg Desmar^es, and travelled at the Bishop's expense through France and Italy. On his return he was appointed court painter. The Bishop sent him to Paris in 1776, where he painted four allegorical scenes in the Hotel de Ville. In 1778 he returned to Bamberg, and died there in 1783.

SCHEUCHZEK, Wilhelm, painter, born at Zurich in 1803, was a pupil of Heinrich Maurer. He travelled in Switzerland, and then from 1826 to 1829 worked in the Black Forest on pictures for the Prince of Fiirstenberg. His landscapes were much valued for their truthfulness to nature and the freshness of their colouring. He died at Munich in 1866.

SCHEUFFELIN. See Schaufelin.

SCHEUREN, Karpar Johann Nepomuk, German painter and engraver ; born at Aachen, August 22, 1810; studied at the Diisseldorf Academy under Leasing and Schirmer. He painted landscapes not devoid of delicate poetiy, and executed numerous charming water-colour drawings which certainly will make his name remembered. In the Galleries of Berlin, Ham- burg, Hanoi-er, Cologne, Leipzig, and Munich, examples of his work will be found ; he obtained the Red Eagle Order of the second class, the Swedish gold medal for art and science, as well as other decorations. The scenery of the Rhine provided him with some of the most effective motives for his pictures. He became Professor at Diisseldorf in 1855, and died there June 12, 1887.

SCHEVENHUYSEN, Anthony, a Dutch en- graver, who flourished about the year 1695. He engraved the trades of Holland in a set of one hundred small plates.

SCHEYNUEL, (Scheindel,) George van, a Dutch engraver, who resided at Rotterdam about the year 1635. He engraved several plates in a style resembling that of Callot. His landscapes are filled with figures correctly drawn, and touched with spirit. He was a contemporary of William van Buytenweg, after whom he engraved some plates. We have, among others, the following prints by him :

The Funeral Procession of William the Silent ; in four plates. A pair of LanJscapes, with Peasants amusing themselves, The Tooth-drawer. A Village Festival, with Boors fighting. Ditto, with a Quack-Doctor. A Winter-piece, with Skaters on the ice. A Landscape, with a Waterfall. A Landscape, with a Bridge. A set of four Views of a Castle, one with a Windmill. A set of twelve Landscapes, with Dutch inscriptions. A set of twelve plates of European costumes. Twelve plates of Dutch costumes. Scheyndel was at work as late as 1660.

SCHIANTESCHI, Domenico, an Italian painter of the 18th century. He was a pupil of the Bibieni,

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