Scheffer

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

ARY, a French painter, son of Johann Baptist (a German historical painter); born in Dordrecht, Holland, Feb. 12, 1795; studied under Guérin in Paris, and began his artistic career a painter of genre pictures. Under as a the influence of the romanticism of the early 19th century he produced numerous pieces illustrative of Goethe's, Byron's, and Dante's works, such as "Margaret at the Well," "Faust in His Study," and "Dante and Beatrice in Heaven." Shortly after 1835 he turned to religious subjects, and painted "Christus Remunerator," "Christus Consolator," "The Temptation of Christ," "St. Augustine and Monica," etc. His best portraits were of the Duchess de Broglie, Prince Talleyrand, Queen Amélie, Liszt, La Fayette, Béranger, and Lamartine. He died in Argenteuil, near Paris, June 15, 1858. SCHELDT (skelt; Dutch, Schelde shel'-duh), one of the most important rivers of Belgium and the Netherlands. It rises in the French department of the Aisne; flows circuitously through Belgium; reaches Ghent, where it receives the Lys; at Antwerp attains a breadth of about 1,600 feet, and forms a capacious moves, humpscarriage and secure harbor. About 15 miles below Antwerp, shortly after reaching the Dutch frontier, it divides into the East and West Scheldt, thus forming a double estuary. The whole course is 267 miles, about 210 of which are navigable. Until 1863, when navigation was made free by the Treaty of Brussels, the Dutch monopolized it and levied tolls on foreign War vessels. As a result of the World and the Peace Treaty of Versailles, control of the Scheldt became again a subject of controversy between Holland and Belgium.