Johann Gottfried Tannauer

Johann Gottfried Tannauer, or Dannhauer (born 1680, Saxony; died 1733–37, Saint Petersburg) was a German painter, portraitist and miniaturist who worked in Russia after 1711.

He began as a watchmaker in Swabia, then studied music, but finally turned to painting and worked with Sebastiano Bombelli in Venice.

[1] While working in Karlsbad, he was recommended to Tsar Peter I by the Czech painter, Jan Kupecký.

[1] In 1710, he won an appointment as court painter and, after arriving in Smolensk, accompanied the Tsar on his travels during the Pruth River Campaign.

Upon settling in Saint Petersburg, he painted portraits of most of the members of the Royal Court, including Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, and other distinguished persons, such as Count Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy and Admiral Fyodor Apraksin.