Tobias Stranover (1684–1756)

• Was a Transylvanian Saxon painter.
• Toby Stranover, was born in the city of Sibiu, Romania.
• At the time, his birth city was named Nagyszeben and was a part of Hungary.
• The artist was a Transylvanian Saxon, representing people of German ethnicity who, by the mid-XII-century, began migrating to Transylvania.
• His father, Jeremias Stranover, was a local painter.
• Stranover traveled extensively to places like the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, and Germany, to cities like Hamburgand Hermannstadt.

• He eventually settled in London, England, around 1703.

• It was there that Stranover met with Jacob Bogdani.

• Stranover would come to marry Bogdani’s daughter, Elizabeth, circa 1720.

• They moved to the area of the Covent Garden in London, closeby Bogdani. 

• By 1733, the artist traveled a lot to Germany and Vienna to complete four large commissions portraying animals and fruit.

• Tobias Stranover passed away in London in 1756.

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