Ismael Mengs

Ismael Israel Mengs (1690 – 26 December 1765) was a Danish-born portrait painter, active mainly at the court of Dresden, Germany.

Ismael Mengs
Portrait by his son Anton Raphael Mengs (c. 1747–1748)
Born1690 (1690)
Copenhagen, Denmark–Norway
Died26 December 1765(1765-12-26) (aged 74–75)
Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire
Spouse
Charlotte Burmann
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(m. 1720)​
[1]
ChildrenAnton Raphael Mengs
Therese Concordia Maron
Julia Charlotte Mengs

Biography
Drawing by Ismael Mengs

Mengs was born in Copenhagen into a family of Jewish descent, with some sources calling him a Danish, others a Danish-born painter.[1][2] He learned the art of miniature- and enamel-painting in Lübeck, and then traveled through Germany, Italy, and Austria. He was baptized as a Lutheran, before he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1714. Further, he became court painter to August III, King of Poland and of Saxony.[3]

He was the father of Anton Rafael Mengs, whom he trained from early childhood to become a successful painter in Germany, Italy and Spain.[4]

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Cramer, Frank (1904). "Mengs, Ismael Israel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 492.

  1. Meier, F. J. (1887–1905). "Mengs, Ismael Israel". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Vol. 11 (1st ed.). Gyldendal: C. F. Bricka. p. 260.
  2. Chilvers, Ian (2017-09-27). The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-102417-7.
  3. Rudolf Grulich: Ein getaufter Jude aus Dänemark und die Aussiger Madonna. In: Mitteilungen Haus Königstein, Jg. 5 (2011), Heft 4, p. 17. (in German)
  4. "Anton Raphael Mengs | Bohemian painter | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
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