Maria Katharina Prestel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMaria Katharina Prestel
painter and engraver from Nuremberg, active in London
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Place of Birth: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
About Maria Katharina Prestel
- Maria Katharina Prestel (22 July 1747 – 16 March 1794) née Maria Katharina Höll, was an engraver and painter from Nuremberg, and active in London. Prestel was born in Nuremberg where she became a pupil of Johann Gottlieb Prestel.
- She married Prestel in 1769 but the couple separated in 1786, at which point she moved to London with her daughter Ursula Magdalena Prestel.
- There she worked for John Boydell making aquatints. Her painting Gypsies on a Common was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World. Prestel died in Greater London.
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