Joseph Werner (1637–1710)

• Was a Swiss painter.
• Born in the Swiss city of Bern.
• He completed his training in Basel and then in Frankfurt,.
• Went to Rome to paint and travelled to France where, at the court of Louis XIV he painted portraits of both the monarch himself and of various notables in his entourage.
• Werner also worked on the decorations of the Palace of Versailles.
• Werner left Paris in 1667, settling for 13 years in Augsburg.
• In Augsburg he worked for the Bavarian Elector in Vienna.
• He earned a reputation as a miniatures painter at the court of the Saxon King in Dresden.
• In Berlin, he was appointed Director of the newly established Prussian Academy of Arts.
• He passed his artistic talents on to his sons.
• His younger son Francis Paul becoming a painter of birds and his first born, Joseph Christopher Werner, becoming a court painter.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Joseph Werner, Self-portrait, 1662
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