Johann Joachim Faber

Who was Johann Joachim Faber?

Johann Joachim Faber, a landscape painter, was born at Hamburg in 1778, and died in the same city in 1846. He worked originally at historical subjects, and painted the altar-piece, Suffer Little Children to come unto Me, for St. Catharine's Church at Hamburg. On his journey to Italy in company with J. A. Koch and Reinhardt, he was induced to adopt landscape painting, in which line he is best known. The Berlin Gallery contains a View of the Capuchin Monastery, near Naples, by him.