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Ary Scheffer

1795 - 1858

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Ary Scheffer (10 February 1795 – 15 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, as well as religious subjects. He was also a prolific painter of portraits of famous and influential people in his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ary Scheffer has received more than 234,021 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ary Scheffer is the 325th most popular painter (up from 427th in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 161st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Dutch Painter.

Ary Scheffer is most famous for his Romantic paintings of landscapes, portraits, and religious scenes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Ary Scheffer ranks 325 out of 2,023. Before him are Frans Snyders, Karl Bryullov, Carl Spitzweg, Alexander Roslin, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Oda Krohg. After him are Francesco Primaticcio, Ludovico Carracci, Albert Marquet, Léon Bonnat, Meindert Hobbema, and Thomas Couture.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Ary Scheffer ranks 9. Before him are Leopold von Ranke, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, John Keats, Thomas Carlyle, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, and Antonio José de Sucre. After him are Dred Scott, Alexander Griboyedov, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, John William Polidori, and Gabriel Lamé. Among people deceased in 1858, Ary Scheffer ranks 11. Before him are Rani of Jhansi, Matthew C. Perry, Johannes Peter Müller, Karl Thomas Mozart, Anton Diabelli, and John Snow. After him are Aimé Bonpland, Dred Scott, Joseph Karl Stieler, Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, and Coenraad Jacob Temminck.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Ary Scheffer ranks 142 out of 1,646. Before him are Etty Hillesum (1914), Geert Hofstede (1928), Pim Fortuyn (1948), Pieter van der Aa (1659), Bernard Haitink (1929), and Jan Swammerdam (1637). After him are Meindert Hobbema (1638), Johnny Rep (1951), Gaius Julius Civilis (25), Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918), Martinus Beijerinck (1851), and René van de Kerkhof (1951).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Ary Scheffer ranks 33. Before him are Pieter Aertsen (1508), Adriaen van Ostade (1610), Paulus Potter (1625), George Hendrik Breitner (1857), Gerard David (1450), and Anton Mauve (1838). After him are Meindert Hobbema (1638), Abraham Bloemaert (1566), Maarten van Heemskerck (1498), Willem Claesz. Heda (1594), Aelbert Cuyp (1620), and Ferdinand Bol (1616).

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