Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751 - 1829)

• Was a German painter from the Tischbein family of artists.
• He began his artistic studies with his uncle, Johann Jacob Tischbein in Hamburg.
• From 1772 to 1773, he travelled in Holland, studying the Old Masters.
• After 1777, he established himself as a portrait painter in Berlin and became a member of the Masonic Lodge.
• He spent several years after 1810 writing his autobiography, Aus meinem Leben.
• It was not published until 1861 and has not been reissued since. 
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