- Oil on canvas
- Dimensionswithout frame: 192 cm x 143 cm
- Dimensions with frame: 225 cm x 175 cm
Sebastian Carl Christoph Reinhardt (born December 13, 1738 in Ortenburg, Lower Bavaria, died May 30, 1827 in Jelenia Gora) - German painter, specializing in landscapes. The son of a pastor, in 1744 he moved with his parents from his hometown to Regensburg, where he attended grammar school. From 1760, he studied fine arts at the Brunswick Collegium Carolinum, and later in the Netherlands, among other places. After his studies and study trips, he painted a series of landscapes of the Potsdam area, which earned him recognition. From 1788 he was a member of the Königlich-Preussische Akademie der Künste und mechanischen Wissenschaften in Berlin, at the urging of which he settled in Jelenia Gora in 1789 to do two landscapes of the Karkonosze or Jelenia Gora basin for the academy each year for a fee (Lukaszewicz says for the Prussian king). He painted no less than 60 of them for this client. Copperplates were made of these landscapes in Berlin, and prints were made from them, sold to various collectors; they were acquired by, among others, later US President John Quincy Adams during a visit to the artist's studio in 1800. In addition, numerous Reinhardt paintings were purchased for his residence at Książ Castle by Count Hans Heinrich VI von Hochberg. The artist was professionally active until an attack of apoplexy in 1825. After settling in Jelenia Gora, he married Johanna Margareta Brückner in 1791 and was widowed in 1811. They had a son who died in infancy. He was buried in the cemetery at the Grace Lutheran Church in Jelenia Góra; his grave has not survived. Made for the Berlin academy, Reinhardt's collection of landscapes was given to the Prussian royal court in 1823, and individual paintings subsequently found their way to various palaces of the ruler, including those in Berlin and Königsberg. Most of the artist's original works have not survived, but three paintings are in the collection of the National Museum in Wroclaw, five in a museum in Walbrzych, and nine in Germany. More numerous are the copperplates and etchings made from his paintings, present in the collection of the Karkonosze Museum in Jelenia Góra, among others.
