Christopher Elias Heiss
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Elias Christoph Heiss (by Bernhard Vogel)
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Saint Augustine, 1713, by Christoph Elias Heiss
Christopher Elias Heiss (1660–1731) was a German painter from Memmingen, Swabia.
Born in 1660 (although many books sources claim 1670 or even 1760), he painted portraits well, he was mostly distinguished by his mezzotintos, which he executed on an uncommonly large scale, some of his plates being three feet high and two feet wide.[1]
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Matthew Pilkington's A General Dictionary of Painters (1824)
- ^ Pilkington, Matthew (1824). A General Dictionary of Painters. T. McLean. p. 430. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
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