Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.
Events from the year 1840 in art.
Events from the year 1799 in art.
Events from year 1632 in art.
Events from the year 1782 in art.
Events from the year 1781 in art.
Events from the year 1765 in art.
Events from the year 1708 in art.
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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.
Johann August Eduard Mandel (1810-1882) was a German engraver.
William Faithorne the Younger was an English mezzotint engraver.
Meno Haas aka Johann Meno Haas was a German-born copperplate engraver, miniaturist, illustrator and painter. He was the brother of George and Peter Haas (1754–1804), and father of Jean Meno Haas. Meno was the son and student of the engraver Jonas Haas (1720–1775). He also trained under Johann Georg Preisler (1757–1831) at the Academy of Copenhagen
Johann Georg Ziesenis was a German–Danish portrait painter.
Sir Robert Strange was a Scottish engraver. A Jacobite, he spent periods out of Great Britain, but was eventually reconciled to the Hanoverian succession and was knighted by George III.
Andrew Miller was an English mezzotint engraver.
Frederick Kerseboom (1632–1690) was a German painter, sometimes called Frederick Casaubon in England.
Jan van der Vaart or Jan van der Vaardt was a Dutch painter and draughtsman of portraits, landscapes and trompe-l'œil paintings and a mezzotint artist who was active in England for most of his career. He was also an art restorer and art collector.
Daniel Dodd was an English painter and engraver.
Edward Cooper was an English print seller, regarded as the most distinguished print publisher of his generation and a leading figure in the art world.
