Scheffer, Ary, painter, born at Dordrecht, of German and Dutch parentage; settled in Paris; began as a genre-painter; illustrated Dante, Goethe, and Byron, and in the end painted religious subjects; he did excellent portraits also; was of the Romantic school (1795‒1858).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Scheffel, Joseph Victor von * Scheherazade