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Scheffer-Scheffer
At this moment, there isn't a single document that is a hard evidence of a family relation between the artist Jean-Baptiste Scheffer and the family Scheffer-Van Vugt.
However, the number of indications is remarkably vast:
- The Scheffer family, like the Scheffer-Van Vugt families, have produced a conciderable number of artists.
- Membres of both families worked as artists at the court of Louis-Napoléon around the years 1806-1809.
- In 1810 Gerrit Van Vugt, (wall-paper)-painter at the palace, marries Héléna Hendrina Scheffer, who had a grandfather, two distant uncles and a great-grandfather who were "master-painters".
- The Scheffer family has continued working as artists at royal courts for at least one generation, albeit that it was the french court. The Van Vugt family was true to the dutch court for at least six generations, very often in a combination servant/artist.
- Arie Lamme, Jean-Baptiste Scheffer's father-in-law, was a painter of wall-paper, born in the tiny town of Heerjansdam, in 1748. Gerrit van Vugt was a painter of wall-paper, too. His father was also born in Heerjansdam, in 1756.
It is extremely probable that Jean-Baptiste Scheffer and Gerrit Van Vugt have known each other. At the same time, they were artists at the same court of Louis-Napoléon.
As Gerrit marries a young girl Scheffer, who stems from an artist-riddled family, it seems evident that it's well possible that Héléna Hendrina Scheffer is somehow related to the artist Jean-Baptiste Scheffer.
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