Johann Julius Heinsius (7 February 1740,

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- 19 May 1812,

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oil painter and miniaturist.

Biography

He was the brother of

Johann Ernst Heinsius Johann Ernst Heinsius (; 21 May 1731, Ilmenau - 18 October 1794, Erfurt) was a German portrait painter and Portrait miniature, miniaturist. Biography His father was Johann Christian Heintz (c.1706-1756), a gunsmith who had become an artist at ...

, a painter from Ilmenau. They were the sons of the painter Johann Christian Heintz (1706-1752). Heinsius travelled with his father to the

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around 1752 and there he became an active painter.Niel Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, . Published 2006 From 1771 he went to

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and exhibited canvases at salons. Soon afterwards, he returned to Germany and in 1772 he became an official painter in

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. Later on, he became painter of

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's daughters. In 1779 and 1782 he exhibited at the "Salon de la Correspondance" in

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. Among the works he exhibited at 1782 exhibition were portraits of the d'Espagnac family. Due to his connections to the

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(he had been named the “Peintre des Mesdames de France”, artist to the sisters of Louis XV) he was forced to leave France for some time during the French Revolution. In 1788 he exhibited in

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under the title "Hoffmahler zu Weimar". Despite his connections to the French Royalties and his foreign birth, he was eventually allowed to return to France to pick up his main practice as a portraitist. In 1790 he moved to the city of

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, "Portrait de femme" * Paris, Louvre Museum, "Portrait d'homme" * Paris, Louvre Museum, "Antoine Huard à l'âge de 30 ans" *

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, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, "Jeanne Philippon, Madame Roland" * Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, "Madame Victoire", fille de Louis XV

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