- Christian Nikolaus Eberlein
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Georg Christian Gebauer, engraving by Johann Jakob Haid after the portrait by 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.
His son, Christian Eberhard Eberlein, who was also a painter, was born at Wolfenbüttel in 1749, and died at Göttingen in 1804.
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This article incorporates text from the article "EBERLEIN, Christian Nicolaus" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
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