Johann Christian Reinhart (1761–1847)

• Was a German painter and engraver.
• Reinhart was born in Hof, Bavaria.
• Following in his father's footsteps, Johann Christian started to study theology but turned more and more to art.
• He studied under Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipzig.
• In 1783 he moved to Dresden where he furthered his studies under Johann Christian Klengel.
• He struck up a friendship with Friedrich Schiller in 1785.
• In 1789, supported by the hereditary Prince of Coburg-Gotha, he got a grant from the Margrave of Ansbach-Bayreuth, and, aged 28, he left Dresden and moved to Rome.
• Reinhart came under the influence of the classicist German painters Asmus Jacob Carstens and Joseph Anton Koch and became a conspicuous exponent of the historic landscape.
• In 1801, he married an Italian Anna Caffo and together they had three children.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Jose de Madrazo, Portrait of the Artist Johann Christian Reinhart, 1811.
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