All GRAFF, Anton's oil paintings
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96829  
GRAFF, Anton, A market in an Italianate harbour with Diogenes in search of an honest man
  		A market in an Italianate harbour with Diogenes in search of an honest man 1666(1666) Medium oil on canvas cyf
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GRAFF, Anton, Self-Portrait at the Age of 58 dfg
  		Self-Portrait at the Age of 58 dfg 1794 Oil on canvas, 168 x 105 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
GRAFF, Anton
Swiss-born German Painter, 1736-1813 Swiss painter, active in Germany. He was a pupil of Johann Ulrich Schellenburg (1709-95) in Winterthur and continued his training with Johann Jakob Haid in Augsburg between 1756 and 1765. He worked for the court painter Leonhard Schneider (1716-62) in Ansbach from 1757 to 1759, producing large numbers of copies of a portrait of Frederick the Great (probably by Antoine Pesne). This was an important step in furthering his career, as were the months he spent in Regensburg (1764-5) painting miniatures of clerics and town councillors. He was court painter to the Elector Frederick-Christian of Saxe-Weimar in Dresden from 1766 and taught at the Hochschule der Bildende Kenste there. In 1771 he travelled to Berlin, where he painted portraits of Jakob Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and J. G. Sulzer. Sulzer introduced him at court, which resulted in many commissions. He was invited several times to teach at the Akademie der Kenste in Berlin, but he remained in Dresden. He often travelled to Leipzig, and in summer he frequently went to Teplitz



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