Johann Baptist Zwecker (1815–76)

German-born painter and illustrator. Studied art in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt. Came to London circa 1860 and set up a studio with Josef Wolf at 59 Berners Street, London. Illustrated a number of natural history publications including Henry Walter Bates’s The naturalist on the river Amazons (1863).

Sources

Bates 1863, p. vi

Bryan’s dictionary of painters and engravers

Post Office London directory 1859–63.