Johann Rudolf Huber

Johann Rudolf Huber (21 April 1668 – 28 February 1748) was a Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor and Albrecht von Haller .

Huber was born as the son of a landlord in Basel. There, in Bern, Venice and Rome he learned to paint. In 1699 he was appointed court painter at the court in Stuttgart. He did portraits of nearly 5,000 of his contemporaries. He died in Basel.

• Register der Contrafeit so ich nach dem Leben gemahldt habe (1683–1718), Kunstmuseum Winterthur, doi:10.7891/e-manuscripta-48580

• Maurice W. Brockwell, Catalogue of the pictures and other works of Art in the collection of Lord St. Oswald at Nostell Priory, London: 1915.
• Matthew Pilkington, Henry Fuseli, A Dictionary of Painters from the revival of art to the present period, London: John Crowder 1805, p. 262 online
• Manuel Kehrli: Sein Geist ist zu allem fähig. Der Maler, Sammler und Kunstkenner Johann Rudolf Huber (1668-1748). Basel 2010. content
• Johann Rudolf Huber 1668-1748. Ein Maler der bernischen Gesellschaft zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts. (Catalogue), Jegenstorf 1982.
• Johann Caspar Füssli: Geschichte der besten Künstler in der Schweitz. Bd. 2 Orell, Gessner und Comp., Zurich 1757, S. 212-223 online

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  Beat Fischer (1697)
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  François-Louis de Pêmes de St.Saphorin
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  Markgraf Carl III. Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach (1710)
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  Marschall von Mentzingen
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  Der Badener Friedenskongress (1714)
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  Samuel Frisching
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  Christoph Steiger
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  Albrecht von Haller
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  Portrait of an unknown woman
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  Susanna Elisabetha Lupicki
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  Friedrich Karl von Württemberg, 1700
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  Johann Rudolf Rudolf
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  Carl Friedrich Drollinger
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  Daniel Bernoulli
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  self-portrait

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Johann Rudolf Huber.

• "Huber, Johann Rudolf". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
• 4 artworks by or after Johann Rudolf Huber at the Art UK site