Franz Werner Tamm

Germany · 1658–1724

Franz Werner von Tamm was a German Baroque painter who travelled to and worked in Italy. == Biography == Von Tamm was born in Hamburg. He was first trained in his hometown by German Baroque painters Dietrich von Sosten and Johann Joachim Pfeiffer. According to Houbraken, who called him Joano Vernero Tam in a poem about the members of the Bentvueghels, he joined the Bent with the name "Dapper" and was a good flower painter. In 1685, Tamm moved to Rome, where he became a member of the circle of Flemish artists led by Caspar van Wittel.

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