Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Mos
Self-portrait (1765)
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia (1781). This portrait is regarded as Graff's masterpiece. Contemporaries claimed it was the best, most accurate portrait of Frederick. It is the most famous, copied and reproduced portrait of the King.[citation needed]
Anton Graff self-portrait 1805, Gallery of Old Masters, Dresden
Elisabeth Sulzer, née Reinhart (1765/66). Sulzer and Oskar Reinhart have common ancestors; Reinhart was a patron of the arts and collector.
Christian Felix Weiße was a German writer and pedagogue. Weiße was among the leading representatives of the Enlightenment in Germany and is regarded as the founder of German children's literature.
Christian Felix Weiße (1769) by Anton Graff
Children's magazine Der Kinderfreund (part 11, 1781).
1784 title vignette to Briefwechsel der Familie des Kinderfreundes, by Daniel Chodowiecki