family of painters
with uncle, portrait painter Johann Heinrich Tischbein
1772-77 – portrait painter in Berlin
1779-89 – history and portrait painter in Rome
1789-99 – Naples Academy of Art (director)
1791-95 – supervised engraving of antiquities collection of Sir William Hamilton
1808-29 – Court Painter in Oldenburg
The Netherlands (1771), Munich (1778), Rome (1779-99)
Sir William Hamilton
Bisanz, Rudolf M. “The Birth of a Myth: Tischbein’s Goethe in the Roman Campagna,” Monatshefte, vol. 80, no. 2 (Summer 1988): 187-99
Lenz, Christian. Tischbein, Goethe in der Campagna di Roma. Exhibition catalogue. Städelsches Kunstinstitut, 1979 (in German)