Maria Katharina Prestel
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Died | 16 March 1794 | (aged 46)
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Maria Katharina Prestel (22 July 1747 – 16 March 1794) was a painter and engraver from Nuremberg, active in London.
Prestel was born in Nuremberg where she became a pupil of Johann Gottlieb Prestel. She married him in 1772 but the couple separated when she moved to London in 1786. There she worked for John Boydell making aquatints.[1] Her painting Gypsies on a Common was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[2] Prestel died in Greater London.
References
- ^ Maria Catharina Prestel in the British Museum
- ^ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
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