Bach Portrait

This engraving published by Breitkopf & Härtel was produced "after the original painting at St Thomas's School in Leipzig" — the 1746 portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann. Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger, an engraver from Berlin, produced many portraits of well-known people, often based on pictures by other artists. The portrait belonged to August Eberhard Müller, who from 1801 lived at the school as the assistant to Johan Adam Hiller, the cantor at St Thomas's. In 1809, Müller, himself now cantor there, presented his portrait of Bach to the school.