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iIJKl.N..H>HN HKNH 

 the mo*t celebrated pn, 

 wa* tin t 



he was born in 17-'J. He w 

 le on the n. 



him. in hi- i year, w 



lot in Cassel, of the name of Zimmermann. He 



:*) ome instruction from Van Freese. the court 



painter at Casae), and soon gave proof of his ability. Tisch- 



uith an early and a valuable patron in Count 



n. through whose assistance he was enabled, in 1743, 



.here he remained five yean with < 



V'unloo, and acquired his style of painting. From Paris he 



. and there studied tight months with Piaa- 



letta: from Venice he went to Home, where he remained 



two years; he again visited i'l.izzetta in Venice, and after a 



7.")1. he returned to Casel, where, in 17^-, 



'.met painter to the landgrave. 

 :bcm excelled in historical and mythological sub- 

 in which lines are his In s, painted from 

 about 17li2 until 1785 ; he died in 17H9, as director of the 

 Academy of Cassel, and a member of the Academy of 

 Bologna. A biographical no!; hein with criti- 

 cisms upon his works was published in .Niirnhcrg in !,,. 

 ught r bis death, by J. F. Engelschall, entitled 

 .1. H.' Tisehbein, als Men&ch und Kiinsth r dargcsleilt.' 

 In that work there is a list of 141 historical pin 

 TUchbein, of wl ich tlie following liave been considered 

 ; est: the Resurrection of ChrUt. very large figures, 

 painted in 1763, for the altar of St. Michael's chu. 

 Hambuig: the Transfiguration, in the Lutheran church 

 at Cassel, 17Ui> ; Hermann's Trophies after his A 

 over Varus in the year 9, in the palace of Pyrmont, 1768 ; 

 ten pictures of the Life of Cleopatra, painted in the palace of 

 Wcfssenstein, 17<>'.>-70; sixteen from the life of Telemac.hu*. 

 in the palace of \\ilhelmsthal ; an Ecce Homo, in the Ro- 

 man Catholic chapel at Cassel, 177H; a Deposition from 

 the Cro.*, and an Ascension, altar-pieces in the principal 

 church of StraUund, 1787; Christ on the Mount of < 

 an altar-piece presented by him to the church of his native 

 place Hayna, 1788; the Death of Alcestis. 17H<) : and the 

 Restoration of Alcestis to her husband by Hercules, 1777. 

 Tischbein painted many pictures from the antient poets, 

 and some from Tasso ; several of which are now in the I'ie- 

 ture-gallery at Cassel. He painted also a col lection of female 

 portraits, selected chiefly for their beauty, which is now at 

 the palace of Wilhelmsthal near Cassel. He also fre- 

 quently copied his own pictures. Nearly all his works 

 remain in his own country, on which account he is little 

 known out of it. It is remarkable that of all the great 

 galleries of Germany, Munich is the only one that pos- 

 sesses a specimen of his works, and that is only u portrait, 

 slowly, but he was very indus- 

 trious : he was generally at his easel by five in the morn- 

 ing in the nted until four in the 

 afternoon. He painted in the l-'rench style: his col.. 

 was a mixture of t: and thc'\ md in 



;wing and ehiar'- 



OSOUi' -in me In,- as in- 



conv. as his soui 



'nation would allow I. and it is a fault that 



elsJIy the ' t.) the critics he gene- 



rally contrived in his aiitienl 



look much moi. n hnicn and Germans than' 



or Unman-. In his relign IIP was more success- 



ful : he was no follower of Leasing'* theory of bean- 



I.. ' . .; ill e.,:;- >pn r.-e. H. etched'*, v, 

 Jars* ntv ics: Venus ; 



Mil 

 fans; Tlietii 



Tischbein WM a mi :>rl an 



<H erv*nt named Conra.. 



s*y In' should ho In had a cook also wh. 



with him 21 yen .is twice married, and yet was a 



husband i year* : I . 



1786, bjr whom he had two dattghters ; he lived with her 



his great picture of Hie 



three year*, when she died, and in 1750 he married her 



with whom however . month*. 



;i r daughter Amalia waa a diver p . wa* 



a member of the Ac;. ;uisel ; she 



to her lather for many of the It-male* in hi* 



hi-toncal work*. After Tisehbein'* death, the Landgrave of 



Catiel purchased all the work* that were in hi* house, and 



planed them tnLTi'thrr iii the palace ol 



(Meuiel, .Mttccliantfn Artntuchfii Inha/ts; t'iMi,AU* 



.HilIN ilKNKV \V1I.T.IAM. called the 

 Younger, the youngest *on of John Conrad Tischhcin, and 

 nephew of the preceding, with whom he i* sometimes run- 

 founded, wa* born at Hayna in 1751. He wan iiis.li 

 by his uncle .John Henry at Cassel in historical painting, 

 and he afterwards .studied landscape painting three yean 

 with his unclu John Jacob at Hambui 

 to Holland, when- he remained two yean, and in 

 return 1 and painted prtraiu and lands* 



I :inner and Berlin, and painted mam 



traits in both places. In 1779 he left Cassel. by thedeiiire 

 of the Landgrave, lor Italy, but i' ul two years in 



/iirich, where ho painted ni:uiy pert raits and 

 lebnited picture of Conradin 



phiyiiu;. after his sentence to death, a irame at dn. 

 wil'h Frederick of Austria. In 17K1 TiM-hbein arri\ 



lirat studies were some ( -opie in oil after 

 Haphnel and Guercino, and some drawinu- 



lichino. and Ltotmrdn da Vinci. His ftnit- on 

 picture wa* Hercules clnu 



alter which be painted his picture of Conradin of Suabia, 

 now in the palace of Pyrnumt. In 17KT he went to 

 Naples, and the next year painted the portrait of the 

 crown-prince for the queen, who presented Tisehbein with 

 a valuable snuff-box and 200 ducats, expressing her com- 

 plete satisfaction with the picture. In N, 'pears 

 to have acquired laurels rapidly, for in 17'.> 

 pointed director of the Academy with a sain:; of ii<*l 

 ducats per annum, which however 1 in in 17'.i'.i, 

 at the breaking out of th. it he 

 found no difficulty in obtaining ]HTrnis-ion from the French 

 authorities to rturn 



to take with him. He accordingly ei.il aikeil. with 

 the painter Hackert and another, for ' king with 



him the plates of his illustrations to Homer, his design* 

 for Sir \V. Haiiiillnn's second collection of vascn. and 

 other works of art: but the ship wan driven by a utorm 

 upon the coast of Corsica, and was captured by a I 

 ship of war : it was however set at liberty aeuin, and 

 a troublesome journey of four months Tisehbein at. last 

 reached Cassel in safety. During his resilience in Naples 

 he published there, in 1790. a remarkable work upon ani- 

 mals, in two parts, folio, entitled 'TOtes des Different* Ani- 

 mau\, dessines d'apres Nature, pour donncr une id fa plus 

 exacte de leiirs caract.V. -..' The first part contains Hi 



s of animals, and the first plate of this part is the 

 celebrated design called in Italy Tisehbein's I-aocoon ; it 

 r*prt*ntl a Inr^e -i!:il,e tittacKiiiLr ainl dettTO] nr. r a liuiie-s 

 and her young in their den: R design of remarkable power 

 and spin't : the second part contain- X plates on 

 ingot chai. ads of men and gods, as ! 



: <ir Rosa, Michael Anpelo, Kaphnel. Sci]iio Africanns, 



ilia, .ln|iiter, and Apollo. Tisehbein after Ins i 



icipally at Ha:;: l-'.utin 



in Oldenburg near I.iib. ek : the m;O 

 in the possession of < e of OMenb HL' : tlie 



following paintings arethn >st celebrated > 



t Cassandra, painted in ! 

 Children come unto me.' painted in ISMi. fort 

 the church nf St. Angari at Uremen : an<l He. 



in ]!(). II 

 Of II.-v ne. iiiul . 



In C;;;ttingen in IKIM-1 he published in ' bin 



favourite work on Homer, with explanati. 

 ' Homer, nachAntiken gi'xeichn i'ein, 



Direektur. K .in-.n \on Chr. ('" . !i 



i.-vi.. each number containing (I p 



:oes were c n. Tiscli- 



on of 

 vase*, published at Naples from 1791, in 4 vols. 



tied A Collection of Kn- 



gravings from Antient Vases, mostly of pure Greek wurk- 

 I manship, discovered in Sepulchres in the Kingdom of the 



