Johann Friedrich Leybold

Johann Friedrich Leybold (18 June 1755, Stuttgart - 13 November 1838, Vienna) was a German miniaturist painter and copper engraver.

As a young employee of the porcelain factory in Ludwigsburg, his supervisors noticed his artistic skills and recommended that his father allow him to take drawing lessons.

The following year, a copper engraving school was added and Johann Gotthard von Müller was named its director.

When his son, Karl, became old enough to help provide, he returned to engraving and completed several projects he had begun years before, including a "Death of Marc Antony", after a painting by Karl Kaspar Pitz [de], and a "Death of the Consul Papirius", after Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch.

These works helped him make the acquaintance of Heinrich Füger, Director of the Belvedere Gallery, who commissioned him to provide several illustrations for Der Messias, by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.