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Scheiner was born in Markt Wald near Mindelheim in Swabia, earlier margravate Burgau, possession of the House of Habsburg.He attended the Jesuit St. Salvator Grammar School in Augsburg from May 1591 until 24 October 1595.
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Scheiner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Artuš Scheiner (1863–1938), Czech painter and illustrator; Christoph Scheiner (1573/75–1650), Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer (born c. 1573) David Scheiner (born 1938), American physician and activist; Elliot Scheiner (born 1947), American record producer and ...
Christoph Scheiner observing sunspots. In late 1611, the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner, a mathematics teacher at Ingolstadt, using the pseudonym Apelles latens post tabulam (Apelles hiding behind the painting), [nb 1] wrote three letters to Welser, claiming the discovery of sunspots.
American Barbizon artists concentrated on painting rural landscapes often including peasants or farm animals. William Morris Hunt was the first American to work in the Barbizon style as he directly trained with Jean-François Millet in 1851–1853. When he left France, Hunt established a studio in Boston and worked in the Barbizon manner ...
The Ten in 1908. The Ten American Painters (also known as The Ten) was an artists' group formed in 1898 to exhibit their work as a unified group.John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and Childe Hassam were the driving forces behind the organization.
January 8 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first (and only) time, for a period of four weeks, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. During this time it was viewed by over half a million people. [1] September – The David Mirvish Gallery is opened in Toronto by David Mirvish.