Johann Georg Ziesenis

Johann Georg Ziesenis
Born 1716
Copenhagen
Died 4 March 1776
Hannover
Nationality German - Danish
Occupation Portrait painter

Johann Georg Ziesenis (1716, Copenhagen - 4 March 1776, Hannover) was a German - Danish portrait painter.

Life

His father Johan Jürgen Ziesenis was a painter from Hanover who had been granted Danish citizenship in Copenhagen in 1709 and whose works included a 1739 Baptism of Christ for Copenhagen's garrison church. After drawing lessons from his father, Johann lived in Düsseldorf, where he gained further training and painted several portraits of the royal family. In 1764 he became court painter at Hanover and in 1766 he was granted 400 kroner by the Danish king "for travel and other expenses". In 1768 he was in the Netherlands, where he produced portraits of William V,[1] his wife[2] and family. He also worked for the courts in Brunswick and Berlin and his daughters Mrs Lampe and Margaret were also painters.

Johann Georg Ziesenis created about 260 portraits and other paintings and sketches in the course of his life, including ones of Crown Prince Frederik (1767, now at Fredensborg), Frederick II and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz[3] (future wife of George III of the United Kingdom). In 1764, whilst in his sixties, he painted a portrait of Hans Egede.

Selected portraits

References

  1. ↑ Mauritshuis Johann Georg Ziesenis, Portrait of Stadholder William V.
  2. ↑ Mauritshuis Johann Georg Ziesenis, Portrait of Princess Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina.
  3. ↑ Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) when Princess Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz by Johann Georg Ziesenis at the Royal Collection.

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