SCHEFFER, CAROLINE. The daughter of Ary Lamme and wife of J. B. Scheffer was an artist in the last decades of the eighteenth century, but the special interest connected with her is the fact that she was the mother of Ary and Henry Scheffer.  From her artistic standpoint she had an appreciation of what was needed for the benefit of her sons.  She took them to Paris to study, devoted herself entirely to their welfare, and died in Paris in 1839.

SCHLEH, ANNA. Born in Berlin, 1833.  Her principal studies were made in her native city under Schrader, although she went to Rome in 1868, and finally took up her residence there.  She had, previous to her work in Rome, painted “The Marys at the Grave.”  Her later pictures include “The Citron-Vender” and a number of portraits for the Henkel family of Donnersmark.

SCHMITT-SCHENKH, MARIA. Born in Baden, 1837.  She studied her art in Munich, Carlsruhe, and Italy.  She established herself in Munich and painted pictures for churches, which are in Kirrlach, Mauer, Ziegelhausen, and other German towns.  She also designed church windows, especially for the Liebfrauenkirche at Carlsruhe.

SCHUMANN, ANNA MARIA. Was called by the Dutch poets their Sappho and their Corneille.  She was born in 1607, but as her family were Protestants and frequently changed their residence in order to avoid persecution, the place of her birth is unknown.  When Anna Maria was eight years old, they went permanently to Utrecht.

This distinguished woman was one of the exceptions said to prove rules, for though a prodigy in childhood she did not become a commonplace or stupid woman.  Learning was her passion and art her recreation.  It is difficult to repeat what is recorded of her unusual attainments and not feel as if one were being misled by a Munchausen!  But it would be ungracious to lessen a fame almost three centuries old.

We are told that Anna Maria could speak in Latin when seven years old, and translated from Seneca at ten.  She acquired the Hebrew, Greek, Samaritan, Arabic, Chaldaic, Syriac, Ethiopian, Turkish, and Persian languages with such thoroughness that her admirers claim that she wrote and spoke them all.  She also read with ease and spoke with finished elegance Italian, Spanish, English, and French, besides German and her native tongue.

Anna Maria Schurmann wrote verses in various languages, but the chief end which her exhaustive studies served was to aid her in theological research; in this she found her greatest satisfaction and deepest interest.  She was respectfully consulted upon important questions by the scholars of different countries.

At the University of Utrecht an honorable place was reserved for her in the lecture-rooms, and she frequently took part in the learned discussions there.  The professors of the University of Leyden paid her the compliment of erecting a tribune where she could hear all that passed in the lecture-room without being seen by the audience.