Heinrich Jakob Fried

Heinrich Jakob Fried (11 March 1802, Queichheim - 2 November 1870, Munich) was a German painter.

He studied at Stuttgart and Augsburg, and from 1822 under Johann Peter von Langer and Peter von Cornelius at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

Being patronized by Prince Karl Philipp von Wrede, he settled at Munich in 1842, and became conservator of the Artistic Society in 1845.

Fried was a great lover of legends, often taking these and similar sources for the subjects of his best pictures.

He also executed a great number of landscapes, as well as genre and historical pieces and portraits, the best of which are:

The Blue Grotto at Capri , an 1835 painting now in the Kunsthalle Bremen