Balthasar Anton Dunker, a landscape painter and etcher, was born at Saal

Saal, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Saal is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.The community is under administration of the small city of Barth. Saal has first been documented in a deed of the city of Barth in the year of 1255. At this time there was an already abandoned Slavic castle...

, near Stralsund

Stralsund

- Main sights :* The Brick Gothic historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.* The heart of the old town is the Old Market Square , with the Gothic Town Hall . Behind the town hall stands the imposing Nikolaikirche , built in 1270-1360...

, in 1746. He was a pupil of Jakob Philipp Hackert

Jacob Philipp Hackert

Jacob Philipp Hackert was a landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy....

 and of Vien

Joseph-Marie Vien

Joseph-Marie Vien , French painter, was born at Montpellier. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791....

, and was more distinguislied as an etcher than as a painter. His works are after Roos

Johann Heinrich Roos

Johann Heinrich Roos was a German Baroque era landscape painter and etcher.-Biography:...

, Van der Does

Jacob van der Does

Jacob van der Does was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.-Biography:Van der Does was the son of the secretary of the Amsterdam city council. He was more attracted to the arts than to note-taking, and went to study drawing with Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert. He left at 21 to go to France, and from...

, Hackert, and Schutz

Heinrich Schütz

Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...

, and consist of costumes and manners of the French before the Revolution

French Revolution

The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...

, illustrations of books, and other miscellaneous subjects. Among them were some excellent landscapes, as the 'Environs of Berne,' and views of Leghorn

Livorno

Livorno , traditionally Leghorn , is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of approximately 160,000 residents in 2009.- History :...

. He died at Berne in 1807.