Lot 21: Still Life - Great Spotted Woodpecker

Nicolai Peters, Friedrichstadt 1766 - Flensburg 1825 Still Life - Great Spotted Woodpecker, Gouache, 28,5 x 21,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. Nicolaes Peters Hermanns Sohn pinx. 1797, lo. middle inscribed 'XI. Jagdlust.', unframed, min. restored. - Danish animal a. still life painter. P. was first trained by his father Hermann P. and studied with N. Abildgaard at Copenhagen Academy from 1787 to 1790. From 1792 he worked in Friedrichstadt again a. moved to Flensburg in 1810. P. became well-known for his highly realistic plant a. animal portrayals a. was repeatedly engaged to illustrate treatises. - Mus.: Copenhagen, Flensburg. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Weilbach.