Events from the year 1756 in art.
Events from the year 1725 in art.
Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder was an Austrian-Italian historical and portrait painter. He settled in the Russian Empire after the third and final partition of Poland, enticed by an extremely generous offer from the Tsar.
Eduard Magnus was a German painter, primarily known for portraits.
Heinrich Jakob Aldenrath was a portrait painter, miniaturist, and lithographer.
Johann Paul Auer (1636–1687) was a German painter. Born in Nuremberg, he studied from 1654 to 1658 under Georg Christoph Eimmart at Ratisbon. In 1660 he went to Venice, and there received instructions from Pietro Liberi. He then went to Rome, where he stayed upwards of four years, and thence through Turin and Lyons to Paris, and so home to Nuremberg in 1670. He died in 1687. Auer painted historical, landscape, and genre pictures, besides portraits of many famous individuals, for which he was very celebrated.
Johann Daniel Bager, who was born at Wiesbaden in 1734, was a fruit and flower painter. He worked for some time at Frankfurt, where he died in 1815. Two works by him are in the Städel Gallery in that city. He was taught by his step-father Justus Juncker.
Peter von Bemmel was a landscape artist from the Holy Roman Empire.
Féréol Bonnemaison was a French portrait painter, lithographer, restorer, and art dealer.
Friedrich (Fritz) Bury was a German artist born in Hanau. He studied first under his father Jean Jacques Bury, who was a goldsmith and professor in the Academy of Design in Hanau, and then with Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. In 1780 he visited Düsseldorf, and two years later went to Rome; thence to Dresden, and finally settled in Berlin, where he was patronized by the Queen of Prussia. He painted historical pictures and portraits. A 'Cupid triumphant' by him is in the Hague Gallery.
Benjamin Calau (1724–1785) was a German portrait painter, who used an encaustic technique.
Johann Jakob Dorner the Younger (1775–1852) was a Bavarian landscape painter. The son of Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder, he was born in Munich and was instructed in art by his father and by Mannlich. Afterwards he studied the works of Claude Lorrain and Karel Du Jardin. He travelled by himself through the picturesque regions of Bavaria, Switzerland, and France. His works are distinguished for spirited composition and taste in their execution. In 1803 he became Restorer, and in 1808 Inspector of the Royal Gallery at Munich, and was subsequently elected a member of the Academies of Hanau, Vienna, Berlin, and Munich. He died in Munich.
Johann Christian Eberlein (1770–1815), a German painter, was born at Göttingen about 1770, and died there in 1815. An Italian Landscape by him is in the Modern Gallery at Munich.
Georg Christoph Eimmart the Younger was a German draughtsman and engraver.
Maria Clara Eimmart, was a German astronomer, engraver and designer. She was the daughter and assistant of Georg Christoph Eimmart the Younger.
Johann Joachim Faber was a landscape painter who was born in Hamburg. He worked originally at historical subjects, and painted the altar-piece, Suffer Little Children to come unto Me, for St. Catharine's Church at Hamburg. On his journey to Italy in company with J. A. Koch and Reinhardt, he was induced to adopt landscape painting, in which line he is best known. The Berlin Gallery contains a View of the Capuchin Monastery, near Naples, by him (1830). He died in Hamburg in 1846.
Johann Conrad Felsing was a German engraver.
The Merian family is a patrician family of Basel, Switzerland. It consists of two branches who were citizens of Basel from 1498 and from 1549/1553. The family were represented in the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt in 1532 and grew to become distinguished aldermen. Its notable members include the 18th century politician Andreas Merian-Iselin and the 19th century banker Christoph Merian, who founded the renowned Basel charity Christoph Merian Stiftung.
Johann Oskar Hermann Freese was a,Pomeranian artist. He emphasized animals and hunting scenes.
Henriette-Félicité Tassaert was a German painter of Flemish extraction.
