Johann Harper

Johann Harper (August 1688, Stockholm - 4 December 1746, Potsdam) was a Swedish painter who worked at the Prussian Royal Court.

His first painting lessons came from Peter Martin van Mytens and David von Krafft in Stockholm.

[1] In 1709, together with Ismael Mengs, eft Copenhagen for a trip to Germany, where he studied with Paul Heinecken in the Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

In the 1740s, he created the ceiling painting, "'Flora and her Followers" for the vestibule at the new Sanssouci palace in Potsdam,[4] which underwent a restoration in 2016.

Their eldest son, Adolf Friedrich Harper, learned miniature and flower painting at home.