Lot 16: Christ and Mary with the infant St. John and Elizabeth

Amthor, Ernst
vor 1829 - nach 1844
Christ and Mary with the infant St. John and Elizabeth
Oil/canvas, 59 x 74 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. E. Amthor pinx 1833, relined. - German painter. A. was pupil of E. Jacobs in Frankfut 1829/30, in 1830 he settled in Gotha as drawing teacher. Two years later he took lessons again, this time in Altenburg under F. Doell. He returned to Frankfurt where he worked as portrait painter 1841-44. - Lit.: Saur.