Egid Verhelst the Younger

Egid Verhelst the Younger (26 August 1733[1] – 13 January 1804)[2] was a German painter, draughtsman, sculptor, and engraver.

[3] He was born in Ettal,[3] the third son of Egid Verhelst the Elder, a sculptor from Antwerp.

It was in Mannheim that Verhelst founded his own engraving school, which he shaped in the Parisian style.

Egid Verhelst was one of the teachers of the Bavarian court painter Wilhelm von Kobell,[5] as well as Stephan von Stengel, Karl Matthias Ernst and the Mannheim copperplate engraver Heinrich Sintzenich.

[6] Also the Mannheim court painter Joseph Fratrel is counted among his students.