Johann or John Eckstein (1736- 27 June 1817), a German modeller and painter, lived in the 18th century, and studied at the Royal Academy in London, where he spent the greater part of his life. He stayed some time at Potsdam, and was practising in Birmingham in 1792. In 1796 he painted The Soldier's Return, and a Family Gathering. The Berlin Museum has two beautiful reliefs, signed J. E., which are said to be by this artist. He left London for the United States, and died in Havana in 1817.
This article incorporates text from the article "ECKSTEIN, Johann" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.