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Adolf Eberle was a German painter of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a genre painter and animalist.
Adolf Eberle specialized in depicting rural life, especially Bavarian and Tyrolean farmers and hunters. Early in his career, he was interested in historical subjects, but quickly returned to depicting peasant and animal life. His painting "The Sale of the Last Cow" brought him his first great success in 1861, and in 1879 at the Munich exhibition his work "The First Deer" was highly praised by the jury.
Godfried Schalcken was a Dutch genre and portrait painter. He was noted for his mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight, and painted in the exquisite and highly polished manner of the Leiden fijnschilders.
