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Jacob Philipp Hackert
Italian painter
Jacob Philipp Hackert[1] (15 September 28 April ) was a landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy.
Biography
Hackert was born in in Prenzlau in the Margraviate of Brandenburg (now in Germany). He trained with his father Philipp (a portraitist and painter of animals) and his uncle, before going to the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in Later he traveled to Swedish Pomerania and Stockholm, at the invitation of Adolf Friedrich von Olthof, a Swedish government official and businessman.
Born in Germany, Hackert spent most of his life in Italy, working between Rome and Naples, where he established a reputation primarily as a landscapist and.
For a time, he lived with Von Olthof and painted decorative murals at his estate.
He spent from to in Paris with the Swiss artist Balthasar Anton Dunker, where he focused on painting in gouache. He met and was inspired by Claude Joseph Vernet, who was already famous as a painter of landscapes and seascapes, and the German engraver Johann Georg Wille.
In Hackert left Paris with his brother Georg, and went to I