Portrait of Johann Heinrich Martens, a merchant from Hirschberg. 1758.

After the original by C. W. Seidel. 1740.

Engraving, etching. 455 × 307.

Below image: Johann Heinrich Martens, Kauf und Handelsmann in Hirschberg ... Gebohren zu Magdeburg d. 3. Nov. 1706. Gestorben d. 12. Aug. 1757; lower left: Seydel pinx. 1740; lower right: J. M. Bernigeroth sc. Lipsiae 1758.

Inv. G 339.

Seidel, Christoph Wilhelm (c. 1710 – 1761/1762) was a German painter who worked in Breslau (Wroclaw). He mostly painted portraits of nobility and clergy, as well as paintings for local churches and monasteries.

Martens, Johann Heinrich (1706-1757) – merchant and tradesman from Hirschberg; elder of the church and church council.