Still Life - Great Spotted Woodpecker
Nicolai Peters (Friedrichstadt 1766 - Flensburg 1825)
Lot-No. 21
Gouache, 28,5 x 21,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. Nicolaes Peters Hermanns Sohn pinx. 1797, lo. middle inscribed 'XI. Jagdlust.', unframed, min. restored. - Danish animal a. still life painter. P. was first trained by his father Hermann P. and studied with N. Abildgaard at Copenhagen Academy from 1787 to 1790. From 1792 he worked in Friedrichstadt again a. moved to Flensburg in 1810. P. became well-known for his highly realistic plant a. animal portrayals a. was repeatedly engaged to illustrate treatises. - Mus.: Copenhagen, Flensburg. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Weilbach.
Nicolai Peters: Still Life - Great Spotted Woodpecker
Nicolai Peters (Friedrichstadt 1766 - Flensburg 1825)
Still Life - Great Spotted Woodpecker
Lot-No. 21
Gouache, 28,5 x 21,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. Nicolaes Peters Hermanns Sohn pinx. 1797, lo. middle inscribed 'XI. Jagdlust.', unframed, min. restored. - Danish animal a. still life painter. P. was first trained by his father Hermann P. and studied with N. Abildgaard at Copenhagen Academy from 1787 to 1790. From 1792 he worked in Friedrichstadt again a. moved to Flensburg in 1810. P. became well-known for his highly realistic plant a. animal portrayals a. was repeatedly engaged to illustrate treatises. - Mus.: Copenhagen, Flensburg. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Weilbach.