Johann Heinrich Meyer (16 March 1760 – 11 October 1832)[1] was a Swiss painter, engraver and art critic.

Later, he visited his hometown in Switzerland with Goethe, who gathered material on William Tell that he would pass along to Friedrich Schiller.

In 1795, after a study trip to Italy, he became a Professor at the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School.

He was placed in charge of managing the paintings and decorations at Schloss Weimar in 1799, following a major reconstruction overseen by Goethe.

The following year, he was appointed to succeed the late Georg Melchior Kraus as Director of the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School.