Lot 67: Parrots, chickens, and other birds, in a landscape

Louis Leonart Hübner active Berlin c. 1740-1769 Norwich
Parrots, chickens, and other birds, in a landscape
signed 'L. Hubner. Pinxit.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
46 x 37 in. 116.8 x 94 cm.

Mrs. Francis Henry Lenygon by whom gifted to Colonial Williamsburg.

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Louis Leonart Hübner was a native of Berlin and little is known about his life before he settled in Norwich around 1740. He was a painter of still lifes and bird subjects, such as the present one, which show the influence of the work of Jakob Bogdani.