Gustav Adolf Hippius

Gustav Adolf Hippius (12 March 1792, Nissi Parish - 6 October 1856, Reval) was a Baltic-German portrait painter and lithographer.

From 1810 to 1812, he studied drawing at a local religious school, with Carl Sigismund Walther [et], a famous painter from Dresden, who was tutoring the children of August von Kotzebue .

In 1816, he and his friend, Johann Lebrecht Eggink [de], travelled through Salzburg, Munich, Venice and Florence; arriving in Rome in the Spring of 1817.

He also worked as a drawing teacher; at the "Educational House [ru]" and the Elizabethan Institute, as well as publishing several instructional manuals.

He returned to Estonia in 1849, and settled in Reval, where he continued to produce portraits, including a series of women in traditional costumes.