Johannes Michael Speckter

Johannes Michael Speckter (5 July 1764, Uthlede - 1 March 1845, Hamburg) was a German lithographer and graphics collector.

In the 1790s, he turned to the business trades, but was also active as a collector and dealer of copper engravings and etchings.

Together with Heinrich Joachim Herterich, who brought a team of specialists from Munich, he established "Hamb.

Their regular clients included Friedrich Carl Gröger and Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath, who brought their portrait lithographs there to be printed.

His extensive collection of copper engravings later served as the basis for the Kupferstichkabinett at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Johannes Michael Speckter; portrait by Otto Speckter (1839)