Gallery of the Masters 
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
1751-1829 Germany/Neoclassicism
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Brief Biography-Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein belonged to a large family of painters, and his uncle Johann Jacob tutored him in Hamburg. He studied the old masters in Holland, Germany and Italy and became a successful portraitist. In Rome, he moved to history painting, and in 1789 he befriended Goethe, who he painted in 1788. In Naples, he was director of the Naples Academy of Fine Arts from 1789 to 1799, after which he returned to Germany and settled in Eutingen im Gäu. |
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Angel Christine
Westphalen
Christine
von
Braunschweig
Goethe in the
Roman Campagna
Hermann and
Thusnelda
Diogenes Seeks
a True Man
Louise
of Prussia
Portrait of
a Woman
Family
Scene
The Countess
of Saltykowa
The Family
Saltykowa
Johann Georg
Jacobi
The Man's Strength
or the Reason
Conradin
of Swabi
Princess
Saltykowa
Dance of
the Fauns
children of martin
anton heckscher
