Hendrik Scheffer was a Dutch painter, brother of Ary Scheffer, son of Johann Baptist and Cornelia Scheffer and grandson of Arie Lamme, born at the Hague in 1798, was also a pupil of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. He was not without merit, though far behind his brother. His drawing was incorrect, and his colour cold. His principal work was a Charlotte Corday, and he also painted:
He died in Paris in 1861.
This article incorporates text from the article "SCHEFFER, Hendrik" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.