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(2) (Johann) Friedrich (August) Tischbein
(b Maastricht, 9 March 1750; d Heidelberg, 21 June 1812). Painter, nephew of (1) Johann Heinrich Tischbein I. After initial study with his father, Johann Valentin Tischbein, and with his uncle, he studied in Paris (1772–7) with support from a patron, Graf Friedrich von Waldeck. He stayed in Rome from 1777 to 1779, where he was influenced by Anton Raphael Mengs and Heinrich Füger. In 1780 he became court painter to von Waldeck at Schloss Arolsen near Kassel. By the late 1780s he had abandoned his early Rococo style and had adopted a sentimental form of Neo-classicism and a sensitive, proto-Romantic naturalism based on the work of such painters as George Romney, Gainsborough and Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. His portrait of ?Herr von Chatelain (1791; Munich, Neue Pin.), which helped establish his lasting reputation as a portrait painter, attests to his eclectic approach. The young man’s leisurely pose, dreamy expression and fashionable dress, and the outdoor setting reveal, moreover, the shift in social values from the dominance of the aristocracy to bourgeois society, with its greater concern with psychological characterization.
Part of the Tischbein family
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