Johann Friedrich August Tischbein

[1] Four years later, he took a long trip through France, ending in Paris, where he studied with Johann Georg Wille.

[1] During the 1780s he made three trips to the Netherlands, on behalf of his patron, where he improved his skills in portrait painting.

In 1795, he was hired by Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau but, by this time, noble patronage was no longer the necessity it once was so, only one year later, Tischbein went to Berlin and became a successful independent portrait painter.

The following year, he received an appointment to replace Adam Friedrich Oeser as Director of the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.

[1] In 1806, he went to Saint Petersburg to settle the estate of his brother, the architect and set designer, Ludwig Philipp Tischbein (1744-1806).