David Matthieu
David Matthieu (born May 1, 1697 in Berlin ; † June 8, 1756 ibid) was a German portrait painter of the 18th century.
David Matthieu was a royal Prussian court painter and made portraits as paintings in oil but also as miniatures. He married the portrait painter Barbara Rosina Lisiewska in his third marriage , after he had already been married to her sister Dorothea Elisabeth (1711–1740) in his second marriage. In 1738 he made a trip to Paris with the Hereditary Prince Friedrich zu Mecklenburg .
The portrait painter and copperplate engraver Georg David Matthieu is a child from a second marriage, the portrait and history painter Leopold Matthieu (1750–1778) and the genre and still life painter Rosina Christiana Ludovica Matthieu (1748–1795) are children from their third marriage.
literature
- David Matthieu . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 244-245 .
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| SURNAME | Matthieu, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1697 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1756 |
| Place of death | Berlin |