Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737-1807)

• Was a German landscape painter.
• He was born in 1737 in Prenzlau in the Margraviate of Brandenburg (now in Germany).
• He trained with his father Philipp (a portraitist and painter of animals), before going to the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1758.
• Later he traveled to Swedish Pomerania and Stockholm. 
• In 1768 Hackert left Paris with his brother Georg, and went to Italy.
• He based himself mainly in Rome and Naples.
• In 1786 he went to work for Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies in  Naples.
• When Goethe visited Naples in 1786, he and Hackert became friends.
• The painters Salvatore Fergola and Salvatore Giusti were among his pupils.
• He never married and lived a good part of his life with one of his brothers but he had affairs with some married women.
• Goethe wrote the first biography of Hackert in 1811.
• He bought an estate in San Pietro di Careggi, near Florence, and he died there in 1807.
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