TISCHBEIN, JOHN HENRY, the Elder, a celebrated painter of the eighteenth century, was the son of a baker in Hayna, Hesse, and was born there in 1722. He was first apprenticed to a locksmith, but displaying some talent in drawing, he was taken away and placed with a paper-stainer in Cassel. A production of his attracted the notice of Count Stadion, through whose means he was enabled to visit France, where he studied for five years under Vanloo. He subsequently went to Venice and Rome, and in 1751 returned to Cassel, where he was soon after appointed cabinet painter to the landgrave. He was also director of the Academy of the Fine Arts in Cassel, and died there on the 22d August 1787. He was a very industrious painter, and excelled chiefly in historical and mythological subjects; but his works are little known out of Germany.