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Augusta Stylianou Gallery 
Jacob Philipp Hackert (September 15, 1737 – April 28, 1807) was a landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy. Paintings
The large waterfalls in Tivoli
Landscape with temple ruins on Sicily
Villa of Maecenas with the Waterfalls in Tivoli
Berlin, The tents in the Tiergarten Hackert was born in 1737 in Prenzlau in the Margraviate of Brandenburg (now in Germany). He trained with his father Philipp (a portraitist and painter of animals) and his uncle, before going to the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 1758. Later he traveled to Swedish Pomerania and Stockholm, where he painted murals. He spent from 1765 to 1768 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. In 1768 Hackert left Paris with his brother Georg, and went to Italy, basing himself mainly in Rome and Naples, where he produced many works for Sir William Hamilton. He travelled all over Italy, gaining a reputation as a talented landscape painter. In 1786 he went to work for Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies in Naples. 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. By this time he had an international reputation, and won commissions from empress Catherine II of Russia, king Louis XVI of France and others. When Goethe visited Naples in 1786, he and Hackert became friends. In 1799, when Naples was declared the Parthenopaean Republic, Hackert moved to Florence. He died in San Pietro di Careggi, near Florence, in 1807. Goethe wrote the first biography of Hackert in 1811. Hablik
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