training in painting by Georg Philipp Rugendas (1666-1742) & by animal painter ->Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767)
Germany
Christoph Jacob Trew (1695-1769): Plantae et papiliones (1748-62) & Plant. selectae (1750-73) ; apothecary Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741): Phytantoza iconographia (1736) ; porcelain manufacture in Nymphenburg ? ; Jacob Christian Schaeffer (1718-1790) ;
owner of a publishing house in Augsburg
-> G. D. Ehret ; -> C. N. Eberlein ; Robert Robinson ; Bartholomaeus Seutter (1678-1754) ; ->Johann Elias Ridinger ; son ->Johann Elias Haid (1739-1809) ; pupil Anton Graff ; pupil Johann Friedrich Bause (1738-1814) ;
botanical, entomological, and animal copperplate engraving and mezzotint ; portrait painting and stage design ;