Johann Heinrich Müntz

Johann Heinrich Müntz (1727–1798) was an Alsatian-Swiss painter and architect, known when working in England as John Henry Muntz.

After the disbandment of his regiment Müntz applied to the Tribu des Maréchaux, an artisan group in Mulhouse, and gaining entry as a painter, he went to Rome in 1751, and worked for about two years copying antique vases.

[2] He was at The Vyne in September 1756, when the poet Thomas Gray found it fell to him to nurse Chute through a severe attack of gout.

[7] Mowl sets out a theory on a midlife crisis for Walpole who also broke with Bentley, a transition to female friends from a demanding male coterie.

[3] He found work at Kew Gardens, where he designed c.1759 the folly "Gothic Cathedral", made of wood and plaster, difficult to maintain and demolished in 1807.

[12][13] Müntz was commissioned by James Caulfeild, 4th Viscount Charlemont to make designs for his estate at Marino, Dublin.

He worked in Weesp and Muiden as a porcelain painter and a metallurgist for Benjamin Veitel Ephraim,[15][16] till around 1777.

[3] In 1760 Müntz published Encaustic, or Count Caylus's Method of Painting in the Manner of the Ancients, with an etching on the title-page by himself.

[3] Such manuscript was in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps;[17] and later in the catalogue of Henry George Bohn, with a description of Müntz's system of ovals, and a version in Dutch.