Brief Biography-Barthel Beham was a native of Nuremberg and the younger brother of the renowned printmaker Hans Sebald Beham. Albrecht Dürer was his main influence but he was initially tutored by Hans. He started out engraving and later became a portraitist.
He was exiled from Nuremberg for his views on Catholicism but was later pardoned. He subsequently settled in Munich where he worked William IV of Bavaria. His works were commissioned by the nobility of Germany.