(1751 - 1829)
The German painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein came from a family of painters. He met Goethe in Rome in 1786, where he painted the famous portrait of the poet seated in the Roman Campagna (now in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main). In 1787 he went with Goethe to Naples, where he was appointed director of the Academy of Fine Arts two years later. There he also met Sir William Hamilton, whose collections of Greek vases he engraved. Following the occupation of Naples by the French Tischbein returned to Germany, working at Kassel, Hamburg and finally Eutin where he died.
