Johann Heinrich Ramberg

[1] Ramberg may have been a student of Joshua Reynolds and Francesco Bartolozzi; in November 1781, he studied with Benjamin West at the Royal Academy Schools.

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "[t]hese works are of interest to historians for their record of exhibitions in the Great Room of the Royal Academy in the late eighteenth century.

"[2] In 1788, Ramberg visited the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, and then returned to Hanover in 1792, where he was appointed electoral court painter.

He met the German author Goethe in 1790–91 and painted Alexander Crossing the Granicus as a decoration for Carlton House.

He painted portraits of members of the British royal family: the princesses Mary, Elizabeth, and Sophia.