Jakob philipp hackert biography

Jacob Philipp Hackert was a landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy.

Jacob Philipp Hackert (15 September –

Hackert was born in in Prenzlau in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Later he traveled to Swedish Pomerania and Stockholm, where he painted murals. He spent from to in Paris with the Swiss artist Balthasar Anton Dunker, where he focused on painting in gouache. He met and was inspired by Claude Joseph Vernet, who was already famous as a painter of landscapes and seascapes, and the German engraver Johann Georg Wille.

He travelled all over Italy, gaining a reputation as a talented landscape painter. He advised on the creation of a painting restoration laboratory at the Museo di Capodimonte, and supervised the transfer of the Farnese collections from Rome to Naples. During this period he acted also as a secret informant of Russia, his contact being the Russian diplomat Andrey Razumovsky.

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