Friedrich (Fritz) Bury (12 March 1763 – 18 May 1823) was a German artist born in Hanau. He studied first under his father Jean Jacques Bury, who was a

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and professor in the Academy of Design in Hanau, and then with

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, known as the ''Goethe Tischbein'' (15 February 1751 in Haina – 26 February 1829 in Eutin), was a German painter from the Tischbein family of artists. Biography Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein was born on ...

. In 1780 he visited

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, and two years later went to Rome; thence to

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, and finally settled in Berlin, where he was patronized by the

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. He painted historical pictures and portraits. A 'Cupid triumphant' by him is in the Hague Gallery.

Selected portraits

File:JohannWolfgangVonGoethe FriedrichBury.jpg, Portrait of

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, chalk drawing from 1800. File:Johann Friedrich Bury - Porträt des Malers Janus Genelli.jpg, Portrait of Janus Genelli (1761–1813), 1800-1805. File:Johann Friedrich Bury - Porträt des Rittmeisters Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst von Dalwigk zu Schauenburg.jpg, Portrait of Captain Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst von Dalwigk zu Schauenburg, 1805-1810. File:Johann Friedrich Bury - Bildnis des Grafen Karl Hermann von Wylich-Lottum.jpg, Portrait of Count Karl Hermann von Wylich-Lottum, 1809. File:Countess Luise von Voss.jpg, Portrait of Countess Luise von Voss, 1810. File:Scharnhorst (Hannover).jpg, Portrait of General

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, c. 1810 File:Auguste von Hessen-Kassel.jpg, Portrait of Auguste von Hessen-Kassel, ca. 1815, now at the Museum Schloss Elisabethenburg Meiningen

Other works

File:Goethe2.jpg, Drawing of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with His Italian Friends, early 19th century. File:Johann Friedrich Bury - Doppelbildnis der Schwestern Sophie Charlotte und Emma Constanze von Wylich-Lottum.jpg, Double portrait of sisters Sophie and Emma Charlotte Constanze von , early 19th century. File:Johann Friedrich Bury - Madonna mit Kind und Stifter.jpg, Madonna and Child with Donors, early 19th century.

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Attribution: * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bury, Friedrich 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists 1763 births People from Hanau 1823 deaths

Selected portraits

Other works

See also

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