Jakob Emanuel Handmann

Jakob Emanuel Handmann (16 August 1718 – 3 November 1781) was a Swiss painter who specialised in portrait painting.

In 1742 Handmann travelled through France finding employment in a portrait studio partnership with the painter Hörling.

In the business partnership with Hörling, Handmann was mainly responsible for painting the heads of the sitters.

In Italy he worked among others in the studios of Marco Benefial and Pierre Subleyras in Rome.

Thanks to the acquaintance of the Estonian nobleman Colonel Carl Friedrich von Staal, Handmann became a member of the “Accademia Clementina” of Bologna in 1773.