Johann Heinrich Schmidt (1749-1829)

• Was a German painter, miniaturist and pastelist.
• Born in Hildburghausen.
• He travelled to Paris in 1771 where he studied at the Academie royale.
• He made a trip to Turin in 1773, at the behest of the comtesse de Provence, who wanted him to make a portrait of her sister Marie-Therese.
• By 1775 he had returned to Germany, becoming court painter in Dresden.
• He was later recorded in Vienna, Praha, Berlin, where he married in 1779, The Hague, where he was admitted to the Conferie Picture in 1779, Kurland and St. Petersburg 1784-85.
• In Russia was taken up by Maria Fedorovna, and portrayed families Razumovsky, Protassov, Saltikov.
• After his return to Dresden, his portrait of Napoleon was praised by critics.
• Schmidt specialised in the small oval formats that take the art of pastel close to realm of the miniature.

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