Anthony Elliger (1701-1781) was an 18th-century painter from the

Northern Netherlands The United Provinces of the Netherlands, also known as the (Seven) United Provinces, officially as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: ''Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden''), and commonly referred to in historiography ...

. Elliger was born in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

as the son of Ottomar Elliger II.Anthony Elliger in the RKD He was the brother of Ottmar Elliger III. He married

Christina Houbraken Christina Houbraken (1695–1760s) was an 18th-century artist from the Northern Netherlands. Biography She was born in Dordrecht as the fourth of ten children of Arnold Houbraken.Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

and they became the father of Christina Maria Elliger. Besides his daughter, his pupils were

Jan Gerard Waldorp Jan Gerard Waldorp (1740–1808) was a Dutch artist and museum curator. He received all paying visitors to the Nationale Kunst-Galerij in the Hague (1800–1805), one of the forerunners of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Jan Gerard Waldorp was a p ...

, Jurriaan Andriessen, Izaäk Schmidt, and Johannes Cornelis Mertens. At the age of almost 80, Elliger died in Ede on the fifth of June.

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1701 births 1781 deaths Painters from Amsterdam 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters {{Netherlands-painter-stub