Ernst Friedrich Carl Lang (1748 – 1782)

• Was a German artist.
• Ernst Friedrich Karl Lang was born in Hildburghausen in 1748.
• He was a son of the harpist and miniature painter Kilian Lang.
• He moved to nearby Nuremberg in 1755.
• He was taught by the famed Barbara Regina Dietzsch.
• Like Dietzsch, Lang painted birds and flowers in watercolour and gouache.
• Lang may also have been inspired by Trew’s collections of naturalia, or indeed have worked for him.
• His works can be identified by the idiosynchratic delination of the leaves on the branches, which resemble fir branches.
• A comparable gouache of a Goldfinch is preserved in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, and a Rose in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and others sheets are in the Staatsbibliohek in Bamberg.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Ernst Friedrich Carl Lang, Barbara Regina Dietzsch, Margaretha-Barbara Dietzsch, A Male Brambling in breeding plumage, c. 1775.
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