Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann

Landscape, ca. 1750, now at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Mural painting in the Jesuit Church, Mannheim.

Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann or Brinkman (1709 21 December 1760) was a German painter and engraver

Life

Brinckmann was born at Spires in 1709. He was a pupil of J. G. Dathan. His favourite subjects were landscapes, but he also painted historical subjects and portraits; in some of the latter he imitated the force and colouring of Rembrandt. He was painter to the Court, and keeper of the Gallery at Mannheim, where he died. In the Städel at Frankfort is a 'Swiss Landscape' signed P. H. Brinckmann fecit, 1745.[1]

Etchings

He etched some plates in a picturesque and spirited style. The following are his principal prints:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Bryan,1886-9

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "BRINCKMANN, Philipp Hieronymus" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.


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