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Franz Werner von Tamm, known as Dapper, was a German Baroque painter. One of the most famous masters of German still life in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Franz Werner von Tamm studied painting in Italy in the studio of Carlo Maratta. In 1701 he was invited to Vienna as court painter to Emperor Leopold I, where he remained until his death.
He painted with a soft brush live and dead poultry as well as flowers and animals, rather decoratively with an immediate mood.
Ignaz Elhafen was an Austrian Baroque sculptor.
Ignaz Elhafen was born in Innsbruck, where he received an artistic education: he learned the art of woodcarving. Then in Rome he perfected his skills in the artistic processing of ivory. Later he worked as court painter for the Elector in Düsseldorf.
Jan Miel was a Flemish painter and printmaker who worked in Italy.
As a young man Miel worked in the Bamboschade genre: his paintings depict dancing villagers, gamblers and charlatans, barbers and shoemakers, traveling musicians and actors.
Miele diversified the genre painting of the time with carnival scenes. Miele also executed several frescoes in Roman churches, decorated the Quirinale Palace, and was court painter to the Duke of Savoy. Later he moved away from genre painting and painted historical subjects in the classical style.
Miele's works are kept in many museums in Europe and the United States, several of them in the Hermitage.
