Christian Gottlob Fechhelm (1732–1816) was a portrait and historical painter, born in Dresden. He studied under Mengs, Manjocky, and Hutin, first portrait painting, and then miniature. In the Seven Years' War Maria Theresa commissioned him to paint the portraits of the generals engaged in that campaign for the Military School at Vienna. Fechhelm died at Dresden in 1816. His son, Karl Christian, who was born at Dresden in 1770, and died in 1826, was likewise a painter.
Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss portrait artist.
Events in the year 1816 in Art.
Marcello Bacciarelli was an Italian-born painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods active in Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Events from the year 1732 in art.
John Jackson was a British portraitist.
Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, born Vogel, was a German painter.
Heinrich Jakob Aldenrath was a portrait painter, miniaturist, and lithographer.
Heinrich Gotthold Arnold was a German painter.
Louis Asher, originally Julius Ludwig Asher, (1804–1878) was a German artist.
Johann Karl Bähr (1801–1869) was a German painter and writer.
August Joseph Pechwell (1757–1811) was a German painter.
Christian Friedrich Boetius was a German engraver.
Arnold van Boonen was a Dutch portrait painter.
Karl Friedrich Adolf Boser (1811–1881) was a German artist. He studied in Dresden, Berlin, and Düsseldorf; his paintings, chiefly genre subjects and portraits, were popular. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Friedrich Hohe was a German lithographer and painter. Born in Bayreuth, Bavaria, in 1802, his first painting teacher was his father, who was himself a painter. In 1820 he entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Thereafter, from 1823 till near the end of his life, he devoted himself to lithography.
Eduard Clemens Fechner was a German portrait painter and an etcher.
Heinrich Christoph Fehling (1653–1725) was a German painter born at Sangerhausen, in Thuringia. He was instructed by Bottschildt, to whom he was related. After having lived several years in Italy, he was appointed court-painter to the Elector John George IV, and became director of the Academy and inspector of the Art Galleries at Dresden, where he died in 1725. In the Dresden Gallery is a portrait by him of Colonel Wolf Caspar von Klengel, and a number of painted ceilings remain as specimens of his art in the palaces of that city.
Simon Fokke (1712–1784) was a Dutch designer, etcher, and engraver. Born in Amsterdam, he was a pupil of J. C. Philips, and was chiefly employed by booksellers to engrave small portraits and vignettes. He died in Amsterdam in 1784. His works include:
Maria C. Hakewill was a British painter and writer.
The following events occurred in Germany in the year 1816.