Friedrich Wilhelm Weidemann

Friedrich Wilhelm Weidemann or Wiedemann (1668, Osterburg - 25 December 1750, Berlin) was a German painter.

He also produced portraits of several other members of the Prussian royal family Born in what is now Sachsen-Anhalt but what was then the Mark Brandenburg,[1] Weidemann learned painting under the Dutch painter and architect Rutger van Langevelt, who had been working at Frederick William's court since 1678.

He completed his education at the Berlin Academy of Arts and worked in London for a time under the Lübeck-born British court painter Godfrey Kneller.

On his return to Berlin Friedrich Wilhelm Weidemann was - as Heinecken reports - presented to Frederick William by the influential countess Katharina von Wartenberg, wife of the prime minister Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg.

In 1708 Weidemann was made ordinary clerk and member of the Berlin Academy, becoming its rector in 1712 and its director in 1718 (succeeding Samuel Theodor Gericke[6]), holding the final position until his death.