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Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder (1741–1813), who was born at Ehrenstetten, near Freiburg in Breisgau, was a painter of historical and genre subjects. He was at first a pupil of Rösch at Freiburg and of Ignaz Bauer at Augsburg. He afterwards visited Italy, the Netherlands, and Paris. He was a professor and director of the Gallery at Munich in 1770, and died in that city in 1813. In the Darmstadt Gallery is a picture of Two Soldiers and a Maiden by him; and in the Pinakothek at Munich, a Linen Draper, which is a portrait of his wife, dated 1775.

*Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria and Joseph Ferdinand Maria von Salern*, 1765

The amateur Amalia von Schattenhofer was a pupil of Dorner.^[1] His son also became a painter.

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^ Profile of Amalia von Schattenhofer at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.

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

[1] Profile of Amalia von Schattenhofer at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.

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