Anton Graff
Anton Graff (18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was a Swiss painter, of the period called Classicism. He mostly did portrait painting. He was among the most important painters of his time.
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| With the arrival of this self-portrait (1765) on January 16, 1766, in Dresden Graff’s carrier as one of the most famous portrait artists of the Neoclassicism began | |
| Born | 18 November 1736 Winterthur, Switzerland |
| Died | 22 June 1813 (aged 76) Dresden, Germany |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Field | Portrait Painting |
| Training | Johann Ulrich Schellenberg, Johann Jacob Haid, Leonhard Schneider |
| Movement | Neoclassicism |
| Works | Portrait of Frederick the Great (1781). His masterpiece |
| Patrons | Royal Courts of Prussia and Saxony |
| Awards | 1783: Honorary Member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1812: Honorary Member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich |
Anton Graff Media
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia (1781). This portrait is regarded as Graff's masterpiece. Contemporaries claimed it was the best, most accurate portrait of Frederick. It is the most famous, copied and reproduced portrait of the King.[source?]
Anton Graff self-portrait 1805, Gallery of Old Masters, Dresden
Elisabeth Sulzer, née Reinhart (1765/66). Sulzer and Oskar Reinhart have common ancestors; Reinhart was a patron of the arts and collector.
Portrait of the daughters of Johann Julius von Vieth und Golssenau (1713–1784) and wife Johanna Juliane, née Krieg von Bellicken (painted around 1775). Von Vieth was a nobleman at the princely court of Saxony. This painting was sold at Christie's in 2002 for £111,150.
Friedrich Schiller. Graff started it in 1786, and finished in 1791. It was often copied. The original is at Dresden's "Kügelgenhaus".
Moses Mendelssohn (1771).
Self-portrait, Anton Graff and his family (1785). This painting is in the Museum Oskar Reinhart in Winterthur.
Elisa von der Recke (1797).
Johann Georg Sulzer (1774). Anton Graff's father-in-law.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1771).
