Johann Christian Fiedler

Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot Cage, before 1765

Portrait of Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

Johann Christian Fiedler (1697–1765) was a portrait painter born in Pirna. He studied in Paris under Rigaud and Largillière. As court-painter at Darmstadt, he executed the portraits of a number of distinguished personages. Among his productions in the Gallery of that town are The Burial of Christ, The Seasons, some portraits, among which is the artist himself, and some fruit and fish pieces. He died in Darmstadt.

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This article incorporates text from the article "FIEDLER, Johann Christian" 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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