German Baroque Era Painter, ca.1597-1631 Related Paintings of LISS, Johann :. | The Ecstasy of St Paul sg | The Death of Cleopatra (mk08) | The Sacrifice of Isaac | Adam and Eve Mourning for Abel | Verzukung | Related Artists:
Auguste BigandFrance (1803 - ) - Drawer
jean HuberSwiss Painter (b. 1721, Geneve, d. 1786, Bellevue) ,
Geneva1721-1786
Geneva1721-1786,Silhouettist, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. His paternal ancestors were patrician Genevese merchant bankers. As a young man he soldiered at Kassel in Germany and in Italy, where he fought for Savoy in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). In 1752 he was elected to Geneva's Council of Two Hundred and served his native city as a magistrate. He had no formal artistic training, but from his youth he clipped out of paper or cards freehand profiles of a kind that later came to be called silhouettes.
Jules-Alexandre GrunFrench Painter, 1868-1934