Jan Jahn
Illustration — Portrait of a Lady with a Bonnet (1785) Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn (4 June 1739 – 18 August 1802, both in Prague) was a painter and art historian from Bohemia. Jahn studied painting from an early age, under his father until 1758 and later under established painters Jan Ferdinand Schor and František Xaver Palko. From 1761 he studied art at the Academy in Vienna.
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Jan Jahn
Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn (1739-1802) · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Born
- 1739 · Prague.
- Died
- 1802 · Prague.
- Occupation
- art historian · painter · collector · teacher · art theorist
- Fields
- painting · history · art theory
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Illustration — Portrait of a Lady with a Bonnet (1785) Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn (4 June 1739 – 18 August 1802, both in Prague) was a painter and art historian from Bohemia. Jahn studied painting from an early age, under his father until 1758 and later under established painters Jan Ferdinand Schor and František Xaver Palko. From 1761 he studied art at the Academy in Vienna.
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Born at Prague in 1739, died in Prague in 1802.
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