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Erich Correns (1821–1877) was a German portrait painter and lithographer.
Life
Correns was born at Cologne in 1821, and after studying jurisprudence at Bonn, went to the Academy at Munich, and became an
accomplished portrait painter and lithographer. He was well known for the elegance of his portraits, his subjects including King Maximilian of Bavaria and his consort Queen Maria.
He died at Munich in 1877.
The botanist and geneticist Karl Erich Correns was his son.
See also
List of German painters
References
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Correns, Erich". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.