Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth as Swiss artist, scientist and politician (1767-1823).
Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth was born at Zurich in 1767. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as politician, scientist and engineer.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Switzerland shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth died in 1823, aged 56. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
