Salomon Adler (1630 – 1709),
• Was a German painter of the Baroque period.
• Adler was active in Milan and Bergamo as a portrait painter.
• Born in Danzig (Gdańsk), died in Milan.
• His manner of painting suggests an early education in Gdansk. • His artworks show the influence of portrait painters from Venice (Nicolò Renieri and Tiberio Tinelli).
• In the years from 1679 to 1691 he was demonstrably in Milan.
• He was the teacher of Fra' Galgario (Vittore Ghislandi).
• Self-portraits of Adler can be found in Bergamo, Milan (Brera gallery and collection Franco Marinotti), Budapest (possibly replica of the Self-portrait in the Uffizi) and in the Uffizi.
• The only work signed by Adler is the portrait of a young man in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg.
• Known are over a dozen paintings, almost all portrait (except a Judith and an allegory).
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