Maria Katharina Prestel

Maria Katharina Prestel
Gypsies on a Common
Born	22 July 1747 Nuremberg
Died	16 March 1794 (aged 46) Greater London
Occupation	Painter Engraver

Maria Katharina Prestel (22 July 1747 – 16 March 1794) was a painter and engraver from Nuremberg, active in London.

Prestel was born in Nuremberg where she became a pupil of Johann Gottlieb Prestel. She married him in 1772 but the couple separated when she moved to London in 1786. There she worked for John Boydell making aquatints.^[1] Her painting Gypsies on a Common was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.^[2] Prestel died in Greater London.

References

1. Maria Catharina Prestel in the British Museum
2. Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905

External links

• Katharina Maria Prestel on artnet