Christian Nikolaus Eberlein

Christian Nikolaus Eberlein (1720–1788), a German historical painter, was born at Rudolstadt in 1720. He worked in Göttingen, Wolfenbüttel, and Salzdahlum, and in 1776 became inspector of the gallery in the last-named town, and made good copies of many of the pictures therein. He died at Salzdahlum in 1788.

Georg Christian Gebauer, engraving by Johann Jakob Haid after the portrait by Eberlein

His son, Christian Eberhard Eberlein, who was also a painter, was born at Wolfenbüttel in 1749, and died at Göttingen in 1804.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Eberlein, Christian Nicolaus". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.