balthasar
denner
balthasar denner was a german painter, highly regarded as a portraitist. he painted mostly half-length and head-and-shoulders portraits and a few group portraits of families in interiors. usually denner concentrated on the face; clothes and paraphernalia were done by other painters or later his daughter. …
A portrait built from balthasar denner's own colours
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