Anton GraffSwiss, 1736–1813Friedrich August, König von Sachsen
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Friedrich August, König von Sachsen” now? Collection: Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig. Unknown.
Braunschweig, Germany
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum
- Image: Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
In the life of Anton Graff
The whole life1768
Meets Goethe in Dresden
In Dresden he meets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Graff becomes the main portrait painter of German poets from the Enlightenment to early Romanticism, and many of them are also his friends.
1769
Meets the Leipzig publisher Philipp Erasmus Reich
Reich, a well-known Leipzig bookseller and publisher, becomes a good friend and engages him to portray his scholar friends.
16 October 1771
Marries Elisabetha Sophie Augusta Sulzer
On 16 October 1771 he marries Elisabetha Sophie Augusta Sulzer, called “Guste”, the daughter of Johann Georg Sulzer, whose portrait he painted in Berlin.
![[Der Traum des Nebukadnezar; The Image Seen by Nebuchadnezzar; Le songe de Nabuchodonosor], Rembrandt, 1655](https://diglib.hab.de/varia/haum/rembrandt-ab3-0035/max/000001.jpg)
