Ottmar Elliger the Younger (1666–1735)

• Was a Dutch painter from Germany.
• He was born in Hamburg as the son of the Danish painter Ottomar Elliger the Elder.

• He was sent to Amsterdam, where he became a scholar of Michiel van Musscher, a painter of small portraits.

• Later he entered the school of an eminent master Gerard de Lairesse.

• Elliger painted historical subjects.

• He was employed by the Elector of Mayence, for whom he painted the Death of Alexander, and the Marriage of Peleus and Thetis.

• His principal works are at Amsterdam, where he died in 1735.

• His sons Anthony Elliger and Ottomar Elliger (III) also became painters.

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