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Anton Graff
1736-1813
Swiss painter, active in Germany. He was a pupil of Johann Ulrich Schellenburg (1709-95) in Winterthur and continued his training with Johann Jakob Haid in Augsburg between 1756 and 1765. He worked for the court painter Leonhard Schneider (1716-62) in Ansbach from 1757 to 1759, producing large numbers of copies of a portrait of Frederick the Great (probably by Antoine Pesne). This was an important step in furthering his career, as were the months he spent in Regensburg (1764-5) painting miniatures of clerics and town councillors. He was court painter to the Elector Frederick-Christian of Saxe-Weimar in Dresden from 1766 and taught at the Hochschule der Bildende K?nste there. In 1771 he travelled to Berlin, where he painted portraits of Jakob Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and J. G. Sulzer. Sulzer introduced him at court, which resulted in many commissions. He was invited several times to teach at the Akademie der K?nste in Berlin, but he remained in Dresden. He often travelled to Leipzig, and in summer he frequently went to Teplitz (now Teplice, Czech Republic) and Karlsbad
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Painting ID:: 78120
Portrait of Wilhelmine von Lichtenau
1787-1788
Oil on wood
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Painting ID:: 78614
Portrait of Juliane Wilhelmine Sophie von Sivers
ca. 1795(1795)
Oil on canvas
74.5 x 58.8 cm (29.3 x 23.1 in)
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Painting ID:: 78616
Portrait of Stanislaw Kostka Potocki
1785(1785)
Oil on canvas
68 x 55 cm (26.8 x 21.7 in)
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Painting ID:: 78871
Portrait of Moses Mendelssohn
1771(1771)
Oil on canvas
65 x 53 cm (25.6 x 20.9 in)
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Painting ID:: 79741
Anton Graff: Bildnis eines Mannes
Anton Graff: Bildnis eines Mannes, signiert 1810
1810. Öl auf Leinwand. 68,5 x 53,5 cm.
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Anton Graff
1736-1813
Swiss painter, active in Germany. He was a pupil of Johann Ulrich Schellenburg (1709-95) in Winterthur and continued his training with Johann Jakob Haid in Augsburg between 1756 and 1765. He worked for the court painter Leonhard Schneider (1716-62) in Ansbach from 1757 to 1759, producing large numbers of copies of a portrait of Frederick the Great (probably by Antoine Pesne). This was an important step in furthering his career, as were the months he spent in Regensburg (1764-5) painting miniatures of clerics and town councillors. He was court painter to the Elector Frederick-Christian of Saxe-Weimar in Dresden from 1766 and taught at the Hochschule der Bildende K?nste there. In 1771 he travelled to Berlin, where he painted portraits of Jakob Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and J. G. Sulzer. Sulzer introduced him at court, which resulted in many commissions. He was invited several times to teach at the Akademie der K?nste in Berlin, but he remained in Dresden. He often travelled to Leipzig, and in summer he frequently went to Teplitz (now Teplice, Czech Republic) and Karlsbad
. Related Artists to Anton Graff: | Skovgaard | John Brett | Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky | Philippe de Momper | Lorenzo Veneziano |
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