Ary Scheffer
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Ary Scheffer 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 rel
Self Portrait at the age of 43, c. 1838
Statue of Scheffer on the Scheffersplein in Dordrecht, made by Joseph Mezzara after a design by Scheffer's daughter, Cornelia
Scheffer's house in Paris, now the Musée de la Vie romantique
Portrait of his daughter Cornelia together with Turc the dog
Louis Philippe I
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Louis Philippe I, nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, the last French monarch to bear the title "King", and the only French monarch
Ary Scheffer
…subjects. He was also a prolific painter of portraits of famous and influential people in his lifetime. Politically, Scheffer had strong ties to King Louis Philippe I, having been employed as a teacher of the latter's children, which allowed him to live a life of luxury for many years until the French Revolution of…
Portrait of Louis Philippe I by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1841
Profile of the 13-year-old Louis Philippe d'Orléans, drawn by Carle Vernet (27 August 1787)
Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, in 1792 by Léon Cogniet (1834)
Early in his exile, Louis Philippe was a teacher of geography, history, mathematics and modern languages, at a boys' boarding school in Reichenau, Switzerland.