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Kaspar Heinrich Merz was a Swiss draftsman and copper and steel engraver. From 1821, with the help of "a few patrons", he was "apprenticed" to the copper engraver Johann Jakob Lips in Zurich for four years. He also worked as an engraver for the magazine Historical Entertainment. Merz had also acquired a reputation for his color engravings, some of which he created over years of individual work.
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña was a French painter of the Barbizon school.
Díaz exhibited many pictures at the Paris Salon, and was decorated in 1851 with the rank of Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d’honneur.
Emil Rau was a German painter and gesture painter.
He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Rau specialized in portraits and paintings of domestic genre scenes of rural and bourgeois life in Germany, romantic and idealized. Pastoral paintings of shepherds and shepherdesses against the backdrop of alpine mountains, ruddy cheerful girls, and rich peasant homes were very popular with the general public. Emil Rau's illustrations were published in youth and family magazines and in the weekly satirical magazine Fliegende Blätter.
Alexander Max Koester was a German painter. He depicted coastal landscapes and still lifes with flowers. After the artist first presented one of his landscapes with a family of ducks in Berlin in 1899, he earned the nickname "Duck Koester." The "duck" paintings were extremely popular with art lovers.
