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Applied artist, teacher. Son of the goldsmith Klaus Jacob Kepping (from 1734). Studied under his father. Master of a foreign workshop (from 1748). Worked for the imperial court and had many students....
German painter, copier, restorer, collector, dealer. Born in the family of German portraitist Georg Friedrich Pfandzelt in the Free Imperial City of Ulm (1716). Studied painting under his father and ...
German painter, theatrical designer, decorator. Grandson of a civil engineer working for King Louis XIV of France, who fled to Dresden and assumed the surname of Parisien, which later became Barisien...
German engraver, draughtsman, teacher. Accompanied the Russian mission of Lev Izmailov to China, travelling via Lake Baikal and through the Gobi Desert to Peking (1719–20). Published an account of th...
German engraver. Studied under Johann Georg Wolfgang in Berlin. Worked in Berlin, Kassel, Leipzig and Dresden, engraving portraits of Landgrave Ernest Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt, King Augustus II of Po...
German engraver. Uncle of Carl Kollmann. Studied engraving under his father Johann Klauber in Augsburg, in Rome and under Johann Georg Wille in Paris (1780s). Member of the Académie de peinture et de...
German painter, teacher. Youngest son of Johann Christoph Grooth (1688–1764), court painter to the duke of Württemberg and curator of the royal picture gallery in Stuttgart. Younger brother of Georg ...
German painter. Eldest son of Johann Christoph Grooth (1688–1764), court painter to the duke of Württemberg and curator of the royal picture gallery in Stuttgart. Known as “Kleine Grooth,” because of...