Portrait of Moritz Welzer von Eberstein
by MALER, Hans, Tempera on wood, 36 x 30 cm
Hans Maler mainly worked in Schwatz, Tyrol, and painted portraits for merchants and for the Imperial Court in Innsbruck. The inscriptions on this portrait and on its companion-piece, the Portrait of Maria Welzer, n�e Tänzel, depicting his wife, identify the two sitters as a young couple of Carinthian descent.