Robert Eberle

Young shepherds with their flock

Robert Eberle (1815–1859), a German animal painter, was born at Meersburg in 1815. He was first instructed by Bidermann at Constance, and afterwards went to Munich, where he studied from nature and the works of Van de Velde and Du Jardin. He especially excelled in painting sheep, and there is a Shepherdess by him in the Modern Gallery at Munich. He died, through the discharge of a pistol, at Eberfing, near Munich, in 1859.

See also

• List of German painters

References

This article incorporates text from the article "EBERLE, Robert" 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.