Anton Graff

Anton Graff
With the arrival of this self-portrait (1765) on 16 January 1766, in Dresden, Graff's career as one of the most famous portrait artists of the Neoclassicism began
Born	(1736-11-18)18 November 1736 Winterthur, Swiss Confederacy
Died	22 June 1813(1813-06-22) (aged 76) Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony
Nationality	Swiss
Education	Johann Ulrich Schellenberg, Johann Jacob Haid, Leonhard Schneider
Known for	Portrait Painting
Notable work	Portrait of Frederick the Great (1781). His masterpiece
Movement	Neoclassicism
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
Patron(s)	Royal Courts of Prussia and Saxony

Anton Graff (18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.