Thomas Huber (1700–1779)

• Was a German royal portrait and history painter.
• Huber was the son of the engineer lieutenant Sigismund Huber (born 1672) from Bern.

• His father initially sent him to the Berlin Academy.

• From 1716 he was apprenticed to Georg Lisiewski for years.

• In 1738 Huber was an honorary member, later titular rector of the Berlin Academy.

• In 1739 Huber became court painter to Frederick William I of Prussia.

• He lived in Leipziger Straße in the house of cantor Pochhammer. • His best-known surviving work are the ceiling paintings in the Chinese House in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. 

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