Ernst Hermann Schlichting was a Baltic German painter who was born in Tallinn in 1812. His father, Christian Schlichting, was a merchant and former mayor of Tartu. Ernst Schlichting attended the Tartu Gymnasium from 1827 to 1831 and later studied in St.Petersburg. During his career he took study trips to Finland, Sweden, Norway and Germany and earned an income from painting portraits and landscapes. Ernst was also a lithographer and teacher and his sister Wilhelmine was also a painter. He died in Dresden in 1890.
Tallinn landscape
Tallinn Old Town