Tags: Painter.
Christian Nikolaus Eberlein (1720–1788) a German historical painter was born at Rudolstadt in 1720. He worked in Göttingen Wolfenbüttel and Salzdahlum and in 1776 became inspector of the gallery in the last-named town and made good copies of many of the pictures therein. He died at Salzdahlum in 1788. His son Christian Eberhard Eberlein who was also a painter was born at Wolfenbüttel in 1749 and died at Göttingen in 1804.