Johann Christoph Rincklake (19 October 1764, in

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– 19 June 1813, in

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) was a German portrait painter of the

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, with a high standing in international art history.

Life

The son of a carpenter, he took an apprenticeship then began training as an artist, studying at Berlin's

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and the painting academies in

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and

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, spending a few years in each. In 1800 he married Marianne Wermerskirch - they had five children and lived together in Münster. He painted portraits of several noble and civic figures in

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, including Franz von Fürstenberg, count

Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg (7 November 1750 – 5 December 1819), was a German lawyer, and translator born at Bramstedt in Holstein (then a part of Denmark). He was also a poet of the ''Sturm und Drang'' and early Romantic ...

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, Freiherr vom Stein and princess Pauline zur Lippe, as well as several families from Münster and

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, the last abbot of

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. He also painted portraits of working-class subjects - an innkeeper's daughter, a locksmith's son, a baker to the cathedral chapter, a tutor and a singer in the Prince-Bishop's Chapel. Several of his paintings have been catalogued (including those by him in the Landesmuseum in Münster), but others are lost or missing. A large number of images have been cataloged, but other images are missing.

Gallery

File:Porträt des Freiherrn Karl vom und zum Stein als preußischer Minister.jpg, Freiherr vom Stein File:Rincklake Bildnis eines älteren Herrn in niederländischer Tracht.jpg, Painting of an old man in Dutch clothing File:Rincklake A sporting dog lying down.jpg, A lying hunting dog File:Rincklake Porträt der Maria Arnoldina Henriette Apollonia v. Borggreve, Frau Clemens-August II v. Detten.jpg, Portrait of Maria Arnoldina Henriette Apollonia v. Borggreve, wife of Clemens-August II v. Detten File:Catharina Busch2.jpg, Katharina Sibylla Schücking née Busch File:Bildnis der Rosine Alexandrine Freiin von Korff Schmising im Park.jpg, Painting of Rosine Alexandrine Freiin von Korff Schmising in a park

Bibliography

* Hildegard Westhoff-Krummacher: ''Johann Christoph Rincklake - Ein westfälischer Bildnismaler um 1800'',

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, 1984,

External links

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