Balthasar Anton Dunker

William Tell fights the revolution, drawing with aquarel colours, 1798, now in the Swiss National Museum

Balthasar Anton Dunker (15 January 1746 – 2 April 1807), a landscape painter and etcher, was born at Saal, near Stralsund. He was a pupil of Jakob Philipp Hackert and of Vien, and was more distinguislied as an etcher than as a painter. His works are after Roos, Van der Does, Hackert, and Schutz, and consist of costumes and manners of the French before the Revolution, illustrations of books, and other miscellaneous subjects. Among them were some excellent landscapes, as the 'Environs of Berne,' and views of Leghorn. He died at Berne, aged 61.

Landscape with ruins and three figures

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This article incorporates text from the article "DUNKER, Balthasar Anton" 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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