Johann Stephan Decker

Johann Stephan Decker (Colmar, 1784 - Vienna, 1844) was an Alsatian French painter.

At the age of twenty he went to Paris, where he studied under Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Jacques Karpff, but at the end of seven years he returned to his native city. In 1821 he settled at Vienna, and was much employed at the court in teaching drawing and in the execution of miniatures and water-colour paintings.

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This article incorporates text from the article "DECKER, Johann Stephan" 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.