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Füger, Heinrich Friedrich
(b Heilbronn, 8 Dec 1751; d Vienna, 5 Nov 1818). German painter. At the age of eight he was already painting miniature portraits. In 1764 he entered the Hohe Karlsschule in Stuttgart and received drawing lessons from Nicolas Guibal. Overawed by the great historical paintings in the ducal gallery, he lost heart and moved to Halle to study law; but in 1771 public demand for his miniatures encouraged him to return to painting, and in that year he moved to Leipzig, to the school of Adam Friedrich Oeser, where he became acquainted with Classical art. Returning from this two-year training, he was introduced to the works of the Italian Renaissance by Guibal. His fresh and natural miniature portraits on ivory remained in demand; portraits of his parents (1774; Vienna, Akad. Bild. Kst.) also date from these years. During a stay in Dresden, Füger met the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Murray Keith (1730–95). In 1774 he followed him to Vienna, where Keith organized numerous portrait commissions at the Austrian court.
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