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Anton Graff

1736 - 1813

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Anton Graff (18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was a Swiss portrait artist. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anton Graff is the 674th most popular painter (up from 908th in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 243rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anton Graff ranks 674 out of 2,023. Before him are Jack Butler Yeats, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Achille Devéria, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Mikhail Nesterov, and Bartolomeo Manfredi. After him are Valentin de Boulogne, Thomas Cole, Tadeusz Kantor, Philips Wouwerman, Carolus-Duran, and Pieter Jansz. Saenredam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Anton Graff ranks 14. Before him are Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, and Friedrich Kasimir Medikus. After him are Edward Waring, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Infanta Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal, Patrick Henry, and Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet. Among people deceased in 1813, Anton Graff ranks 20. Before him are Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Tecumseh, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, and Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia. After him are Rose Bertin, Giambattista Bodoni, Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Anton Bernolák, Géraud Duroc, and Johann Christian Reil.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Anton Graff ranks 181 out of 1,015. Before him are Charles Dutoit (1936), Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (1938), Alain Tanner (1929), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Édouard Claparède (1873), and Louis of Cyprus (1436). After him are Marc Allégret (1900), Marina Doria (1935), Kurt Huber (1893), Werner Leimgruber (1934), Isabelle Eberhardt (1877), and Ruth Dreifuss (1940).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Anton Graff ranks 15. Before him are Charles Gleyre (1806), Albert Anker (1831), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Matthäus Merian (1593), and Théophile Steinlen (1859). After him are Jost Amman (1539), Eugène Grasset (1845), Bertha Wegmann (1847), Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), Alexandre Calame (1810), and Giovanni Giacometti (1868).

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