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Johann Stephan Decker

Johann Stephan Decker

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Johann Stephan Decker (Colmar, 1784 - Vienna, 1844) was an Alsatian French painter.

Jean Decker; portrait by Jean-Jacques Karpff

At the age of twenty he went to Paris, where he studied under Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Jacques Karpff, but at the end of seven years he returned to his native city. In 1821 he settled at Vienna, and was much employed at the court in teaching drawing and in the execution of miniatures and water-colour paintings.

He was the father of Georg Decker,


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    • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Decker, Johann Stephan". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.



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