Signed p.d.: J.C.B. Püttner 1867
On the reverse along the top edge (in pencil): No. 5 [...] | J.C.B. Puttner | 1863; p.d. sticker (pen): Puttner Josef Karl Berthold (1821-1881) | (Austria); in addition, on the upper border of the frame, an Agra-Art auction sticker dated 2000.
Austrian landscape and marine painter active in Vienna and, from 1869, also in Bad Vöslau. He spent the years 1846-1847 in Rome, later traveled to Holland and Iceland, and from 1852-1853 also to North and South America. From 1842, he regularly showed his works at exhibitions of the Vienna Academy. From 1861 he was a member of the Viennese artists' association, the Künstlerhausen.
