Johann Baptist Stuntz (1753, in

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– 1836, in

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) was a Swiss-German landscape painter and

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. He lived as an artist in Biel, during which time, he painted landscapes in

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– his paintings of

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in Lake Biel were highly thought of. He later worked as an art dealer in

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, and from 1808 operated a lithography business in Munich. He also worked as a gilder and sculptor in wood and marble for a church in

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He was the father of composer Joseph Hartmann Stuntz (1793–1859) and painter Maria Elektrine von Freyberg (1797–1847).

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