Balthasar Denner
German painter (1685-1749) · Germany · On the map · Artists · Died at 63
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.
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Balthasar Denner self-portrait, 1719
The old man with an hourglass and a skull, painted in Rembrandt's style
(National Museum in Warsaw).![George Frideric Handel in 1727 attributed to Denner.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/George_Frideric_Handel_by_Balthasar_Denner.jpg/1280px-George_Frideric_Handel_by_Balthasar_Denner.jpg)
George Frideric Handel in 1727 attributed to Denner.[1]
Portrait of an Old Woman
Denner's portrait of British soldier-statesman James Stanhope (1673-1721), detail, oil-on-canvas.About this person
His chief peculiarity consisted in the fineness of his mechanical finish, which extended to depicting even the almost invisible furze of hair growing on smooth skin. He is particularly noted for his heads of old men and women.
