Cornelia Scheffer was a Dutch painter and portrait miniaturist. She was the daughter of the painter Arie Lamme

Arie Lamme

Arie Lamme , was a Dutch landscape painter and poet.Lamme studied under Joris Ponse at Utrecht, and practised in the style of Aelbert Cuyp. He was much engaged on decorative work, and was also a poet...

, by whom she was probably trained. She married the painter Johann Baptist Scheffer

Johann Baptist Scheffer

Johann Baptist Scheffer, painter and etcher, born at Cassel in 1773, a pupil of Tischbein, went early to the Netherlands, where at Dordrecht he married Cornelia Lamme, daughter of Arie Lamme, and became the father of Ary and Hendrik Scheffer. He produced several large historical works, and some...

 and after his death moved to Paris with their sons Ary

Ary Scheffer

Ary Scheffer , French painter of Dutch and German extraction, was born in Dordrecht.-Life:After the early death of his father Johann Baptist, a poor painter, Ary's mother Cornelia, herself a painter and daughter of landscapist Arie Lamme, took him to Paris and placed him in the studio of...

 and Hendrik Scheffer

Hendrik Scheffer

Hendrik Scheffer was a Dutch painter, brother of Ary Scheffer, son of Johann Baptist and Cornelia Scheffer and grandson of Arie Lamme, born at the Hague in 1798, was also a pupil of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. He was not without merit, though far behind his brother. His drawing was incorrect, and his...

for them to be trained as painters. When Ary's work became popular, she worked for him as a copyist.

Sources

• http://www.geerts.com/Painters/painters17.htm#Cornelia_Scheffer-Lamme