Johann Eberhard Ihle

Johann Eberhard Ihle (5 June 1727, in Esslingen – 17 January 1814, in Nuremberg) was a German painter.

He was the son of portraitist Johann Jakob Ihle (1702–1774), from whom he first learned painting.

[1] In 1749 he settled in Nuremberg, where in 1751 he became a member of the Nürnberger Malerakademie.

[2] His painting style ranged from Rococo to Classicism.

He is considered one of the more significant Nuremberg portrait painters of the second half of the 18th century.