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Author of this article gives his attention to the work of Anton Ernst Beyer (1704–1773), one of the leading Baroque painters in Opava. In this study, new facts concerning the biography of the artist are presented, as well as new findings of hithero unknown works, created on behalf of the donators from former Prussian Silesia. Furthermore some unknown sources of his painting style are disscussed and the role of the work of Beyer against the background of relationship between the Opava region and Lower Silesia.