Friedrich Matthäi

Johann Friedrich Matthäi (3 March 1777, Meissen - 23 October 1845, Vienna) was a German portrait and history painter.

[1][2] He was the son of Johann Gottlob Matthäi (1753-1832), a Meissen porcelain manufacturer, who later became an architect and sculptor.

He initially studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Giovanni Battista Casanova.

After study trips and stays in Florence (1802–1804), and Rome (1805–1807), he became a teacher at the Dresden Academy and, in 1810, was named its director.

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