Joachim Henne (1630 – after 1707)
• Was a German sculptor, engraver and miniature painter.
• Comparatively little is known of Henne’s life, including when and where he was born or died, or where he was trained.
• He worked in different centres in Germany and Denmark, specializing in small portrait reliefs and busts in ivory.
• He is thought to have travelled to Rome in 1691-2.
• From 1702-7 he is recorded as court miniature painter at the Brandenburg Court in Berlin, and he is also known to have worked in wood.
• During 70s Henne was working in Copenhagen.
• Henne was most active as a portraitist, although he also carved reliefs of religious and mythological subjects.
