Christoph Bernhard Francke

The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Hanover and Brunswick. Positions recorded include court painter. Work by Christoph Bernhard Francke is recorded in the collections of Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum and Schlossmuseum Braunschweig.

Little is known about his early life. He apparently received his artistic training in Italy. In 1693, he became a Leutnant in the service of Duke Rudolf Augustus of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, but appears to have served primarily as a court painter. His only known military activity came during a campaign against Hanover in 1702. In 1699, he married Agnesa Duve (1680−1727), daughter of Achatius Duve (1644−1698), pastor of the Aegidienkirche. In 1700, Rosine Elisabeth Menthe, the Duke's morganatic wife, became their first child's godmother. In 1715, the new Duke, Augustus William became godfather to their son. That same year, he received an official appointment as "Fürstlichen Kunst- und Porträtmaler". His surviving portraits almost all depict members of the ruling family in Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and their relatives. A portrait of the Tsarevich Alexei, who had married Princess Charlotte, is one of his few portrayals of people outside the direct family lineage. His best-known painting, however, is of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who was attached to the court in Braunschweig. It is currently in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig in Lower Saxony.

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On origins, the institutional record states the following. Born in 1665 at Hanover. The register further records that christoph Bernhard Francke died in 1729 at Brunswick.