The Tischbein family

Posted Aug 16, 2011 at 09:23 CEST in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.

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Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, Johanna Constantia, 1780s.

The Tischbein family was a German family of painters of who the most well known appear to be Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, Johann Friedrich August Tischbein and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein.

Due to all these artists sharing the same name there seems to be total confusion on the internet regarding who has made which painting (Wikipedia attributes one painting from 1796 to a Tischbein who died in1789…). I haven’t managed to figure it out myself and therefore will show all the Tischbein paintings I have found in this post, but will only state the artists of the ones I’m fairly sure of. If you can shed any light on the subject (perhaps you know in which museums some of these are kept?), do tell!

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Family Scene, 1778.

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Duchess Saltykova, 1780.

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Duchess Saltykowa and family, 1785.

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Frederika Luise Wilhelmine, Princess of Orange-Nassau, 1788.

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Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina, princess of Prussia, 1789.

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Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina, princess of Prussia, ca. 1790. Probably by the same artist since they are so similar.

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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Miss Wieling, 1780s or early -90s. From the Met.

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Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1796.