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Johan Zoffany Biography
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Biography of Painter Johan Zoffany:

Johan Zoffany Biography (Mar.13 1733 – Nov.11 1810). Johan Zoffany was a famous German neoclassical painter, who was mainly active in England. His works appear in many prominent British national galleries such as the National Gallery, London and the Tate Gallery and in the Royal Collection.Self Portrait of Johan Zoffany

Johan Zoffany was born Johannes Josephus Zaufallij in Frankfurn in 1733. He undertook an initial period of study in a sculptor's workshop in Ellwangen in the 1740s and later at Regensburg with the artist Martin Speer. In 1750, he travelled to Rome, entering the studio of Agostino Masucci. In

In the autumn of 1760, he arrived in England, initially finding the work with the clockmaker Stephen Rimbault (Zoffany's fine portrait of whom is now in the Tate Gallery), painting vignettes for his clocks. By 1764, he was enjoying the patronage of the royal family, King George III and Queen Charlotte, for his charmingly informal scenes — such as Queen Charlotte and Her Two Eldest Children (1765), in which the queen is shown at her toilette, with her eldest children, inside Buckingham House, and another, outdoors, with her children and her brothers. He also was popular with the Austrian royal family, and in 1776 was created 'Baron' by the archduchess Maria Theresia.

Johann Zoffany was also a Freemason and was initiated into the Craft on December 19, 1763 at The Old King's Lodge No 28. (Johan Zoffany Biography)

Johann Zoffany, a founder member of the new Royal Academy in 1769, enjoyed great popularity for his society and theatrical portraits, painting many prominent actoZohann Zoffany Paintingrs and actress, in particular David Garrick, the most famous actor of his day – Garrick as Hamlet and Garrick as King Lear – and often in costume. He was a master of what has been called the 'theatrical conversation piece', a sub-set of the 'conversation piece' genre that arose with the middle classes in the eighteenth century. (The conversation piece - or conversazione - was a relatively small—though not necessarily inexpensive—informal group portrait, often of a family group or a circle of friends. This genre developed in the Netherlands and France and became popular in Britain from about 1720. Zoffany has been described by one critic as 'the real creator and master of this genre' and 'a thoroughly bad painter' simultaneously which rather denigrates this genre.

In the latter part of his life, Johann Zoffany was especially noted for producing huge paintings with large casts of people and objets d'art, all readily recognizable to their contemporaries. In paintings like "The Tribuna of the Uffizi" he carried this fidelity to an extreme degree: the Tribuna was already displayed in the typically-cluttered 18th-century manner (i.e., with many objects hanging in a small area, stacked many paintings high on the wall), but Zoffany added to the sense of clutter by having other works brought in to the small octagonal gallery space from other parts of the Uffizi.

Though Johann Zoffany made several visits to Europe and India during his lifetime he remained in Britain, dying at his home at Strand-on-the-Green, Nov.11 1810. He was buried in the churchyard of St Anne's Church, Kew. The painter Gainsborough was, by that artist's own request, later buried nearby.

Refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Zoffany

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