Johann Christian Reinhart (1761–1847)

• Was a German painter and engraver.
• Reinhart was born in Hof, Bavaria, and attended the gymnasium in Hof.

• Following in his father's footsteps, Johann Christian started to study theology but turned more and more to art.

• He studied under Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipzig.

• In 1783 he moved to Dresden where he furthered his studies under Johann Christian Klengel.

• He struck up a friendship with Friedrich Schiller in 1785. 

• In 1789, supported by the hereditary Prince of Coburg-Gotha, he got a grant from the Margrave of Ansbach-Bayreuth, and, aged 28, he left Dresden and moved to Rome.

• The grant continued until 1791/92 when the Margravate of Ansbach-Bayreuth became part of Prussia.

• Reinhart came under the influence of the classicist German painters Asmus Jacob Carstens and Joseph Anton Koch and became a conspicuous exponent of the historic landscape.

 • In 1801, he married an Italian Anna Caffo and together they had three children. 

• His best known work is represented by the "Eight Historic Landscapes" (1825), in the Palazzo Massimi, Rome, and "Four Views from Villa Malta,” in tempera, painted for King Ludwig I of Bavaria.

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