- Melchior Boisserée
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Melchior Boisserée, an artist and antiquary, was born at Cologne in 1786. He undertook, in conjunction with his brother, Sulpice Boisserée, and J. B. Bertram, the formation of a collection of pictures by ancient German masters, to which the three devoted twenty years' labour and the bulk of their fortunes. These pictures, with some few exceptions which are in the chapel of St. Maurice at Nuremberg, were purchased by the King of Bavaria, in 1827, for 120,000 thalers (£18,000), and are now in the Pinakothek at Munich. Boisserée executed and published in l834 a series of large lithographs of these pictures in thirty-eight numbers. He was also the discoverer of a new and simple method of painting upon glass by means of the brush alone, and employed it for the reproduction of the best works in the ancient collection formed by him, as well as of some chefs-d'oeuvre of the Italian school which are now at Bonn. His death took place at that town in 1851.
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This article incorporates text from the article "BOISSEREE, Melchior" 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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