[1] In 1787, when the Prussian army took over in order to save the rule of William V, stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, the family was forced to flee to southern Netherlands due to her father’s patriotic views.

[1] She married the painter Johann Baptist Scheffer, of Homburg in Hessen-Kassel, in Dordrecht (26 October 1794) with whom she had 6 children, only 3 of which reached adulthood.

She decided to remain in Paris as she had a firm belief that an artist had better chances of finding work there than back in the Netherlands.

[6] It is speculated that Ary and Hendrik were trained as painters at the studio of Prud’hon before studying under Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.

[7] Ary’s work became very popular, partly due to the recognition he received from the French royal family, and became a well known portrait artist.

In 1830, following an increase in demand for Ary’s work, he decided to move to a villa on Rue Chaptal in Nouvelle Athène, which was an arts district near Montmartre.

[1] Having lived with her son Ary for the majority of her life, and given his newfound status, it is assumed that she met with many of his famous visitors, including artists Eugene Delacroix, Theodore Gericault, and Jean Baptiste-Dominique Ingres as well as writer, George Sand.

Her nieces and nephews, including art dealer and first director of the Boijmans museum, Arie Johannes Lamme, often came to visit.

Her sons grieved the loss of their mother greatly, with Ary creating 20 ‘post mortem’ pieces for her, including one of her on her deathbed and a marble gravestone.

[1] In 1810, there was an exhibition in Amsterdam called Exposition of Living Masters in which some of her works were displayed, including two of her miniature portraits.