Swiss Anton Graff (1736–1813), born in Winterthur, was a leading eighteenth-century portrait painter, teaching since 1766 at the Dresden Academy of Arts. He recorded many of the most famous of his contemporaries (Gellert, Lessing {see planet  (7425)}, Herder {see planet  (8158)}, Wieland {see planet  (8108)} and Schiller {see planet  (3079)}) and frequently also himself. (M 45342) _ _.