Nicolaus Georg Geve

Later he made numerous trips through Germany, France and Italy to earn a living in cities and on country estates as a portrait painter.

In 1756 he applied to paint the audience room in the Lübeck town hall but this commission went to Stefano Torelli.

The work was first completely published in 1790 from his estate by the Hamburg doctor and natural scientist Johann Dominikus Schultze.

Nissen comments on Conchylien-Cabinet for which Geve supplied 33 plates in copper engraving with 434 figures "the extremely careful painting in water colors was much praised and remained exemplary for a long time."

Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at de:Nicolaus Georg Geve; see its history for attribution.