Carl Oesterley

Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Oesterley (22 June 1805 – 29 March 1891) was a German painter and art historian.

Subsequently he studied drawing in Dresden, where he was a student of Johann Gottlob Matthäi (1753–1832).

In 1842, Oesterley became a full professor of art, and in 1844, after finishing the painting Christus and Ahasuerus, he was appointed court painter of the Kingdom of Hanover.

Beginning in 1852 he produced numerous altarpieces and other works of art for the church in Rosdorf, in Molzen near the town of Uelzen, and also in Bad Iburg.

He was the father of landscape painter Carl August Heinrich Ferdinand Oesterley.