Bildnisse der berühmtesten Menschen aller Völker und Zeiten

About this artwork

verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228

About the Artist

Ludwig Buchhorn · 1777–1856

Karl Ludwig Bernhard Christian Buchhorn (1770–1856) was a distinguished German painter and engraver whose career spanned the transformative period from the late Enlightenment through the Romantic era to the eve of German unification. Born on April 18, 1770, in Halberstadt—a historic city in what was then the Principality of Halberstadt within the Kingdom of Prussia—Buchhorn became one of Berlin's ...