Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski (1725-1794)

• Was an 18th-century German portrait painter.
• Lisiewski belonged to a family of painters, founded by his father, Georg Lisiewski.

• Christoph Lisiewski was from 1752 to 1772 court painter to the Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.

• In that time, he also traveled to Dresden and Leipzig to work. 

• He then brought together with his sister Anna Dorothea Therbusch a workshop in Berlin in which a shared work was performed, activities lasted from 1773 to 1779.

• His other sister was the portrait painter Anna Rosina de Gasc.

• In 1783 he became an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. 

• As the successor to his nephew Georg David Matthieu, he was a portrait painter for the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court at Ludwigslust palace.

• He worked there for 18 years - until his death.

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