Johann Friedrich August Tischbein

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, known as the Leipziger Tischbein (9 March 1750 – 21 June 1812) was a German portrait painter from the Tischbein family of artists.

Biography He was born in Maastricht. He received his first lessons from his father, the set painter Johann Valentin Tischbein. In 1768, he went to Kassel to work in the studios of his uncle, Johann Heinrich Tischbein. Four years later, he took a long trip through France, ending in Paris, where he studied with Johann Georg Wille. In 1777, he took a trip to Naples and Rome, where he met and worked with Jacques-Louis David. He returned to Germany in 1780.

That same year, he was appointed court painter to Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont in Bad Arolsen and was later named "Council and Cabinet Painter".