Anton Graff (1736 - 1813),

• Was a Swiss portrait artist.
• Anton Graff was born as the seventh child of the craftsman Ulrich Graff and Barbara Graff née Koller.
• Graff made portraits of nearly 1,000 of his contemporaries and was the leading portrait painter in Germany.
• Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weisse.
• His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz. In Winterthur and Dresden there are streets named after Anton Graff.
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