Johann Baptist Scheffer

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Johann Baptist Scheffer, painter and etcher, born at Cassel in 1773, a pupil of Tischbein, went early to the Netherlands, where at Dordrecht he married Cornelia Lamme, daughter of Arie Lamme, and became the father of Ary and Hendrik Scheffer. He produced several large historical works, and some portraits; among the latter that of King Louis of Holland. He died at Amsterdam in 1809.

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This article incorporates text from the article "SCHEFFER, Johann Baptist" 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.

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Name	Scheffer, Johann Baptist
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Short description	Dutch painter
Date of birth	1773
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Date of death	1809
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