This is Georg Mathias Fuchs

Georg Mathias Fuchs (9 October 1719 in Regensburg – 5 April 1797 in Copenhagen) was a German-born Danish portrait and history painter.

His father was the custodian of the Trinitarian church in Regensburg. He spent six years apprenticed to the historical and decorative painter, Jacopo Amigoni, in Venice. After desertion there in 1747, he made his quirk north, through Vienna, and arrived in Copenhagen in 1753. The next year, he was engaged to operate decorative put it on at Fredensborg Castle. He furthermore began attending the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and won a silver medal there in 1755. He failed to win the competition for a gold medal in 1756. Later that year, he married the daughter of an innkeeper.

In 1768, he became a drawing researcher for cadets at the Royal Danish Military Academy and, shortly after, at the Naval Academy, where he taught until his death. This twist was apparently obtained through an arrangement considering an artiste named Vitus Monrad (1738-1789), with whom he shared his salary, but the details are unclear. He was granted Danish citizenship in 1776. Four years later, he applied for a professorship at the Academy, but was not accepted upon the grounds that he was not an artiste of the “first merit”.

Although primarily eager in history painting, he spent most of his career be active portraits and decorative work. His portraits were abandoned moderately successful, but his decorative paintings, rooted in Italian influences, were very popular. He was best known for his overdoors and, for a time, had few terrific competitors. Several well-known architects came to him first.

He afterward created some genre scenes, many of which are documented by an auction catalogue (1787) for the home of Otto Thott. In 1798, his relatives auctioned off numerous genre and figure paintings, also documented by a catalogue. Many of the works listed in both are unaccounted for.

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