Benjamin Block

Block was born into an artistic family in Lübeck;[1] his father Daniel Blok[2] and brothers Emanuel and Adolf were painters.

[3] In 1653 he was registered in Halle, Spanish Netherlands,[1] probably en route to Italy, and in 1655, through one of his brothers, who was a canon in Vienna at the time, he met Ferenc Nádasdy III who invited him to produce art in Hungary.

[1] After working as a portrait painter in Siena, Florence and Venice, in 1664 Block crossed the alps back to his native Germany, and settled in Nuremberg, where he married the daughter of the flower painter Johann Thomas Fischer (1603–1685),[4] the flower painter Anna Catharina Fischer.

[1] His wife remained a painter after her marriage, and along with their parents, this duo is mentioned in the artist biographies of Joachim von Sandrart and Arnold Houbraken.

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