Johann Rudolf Huber worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Johann Rudolf Huber as Swiss painter (1668-1748).
Johann Rudolf Huber was born at Basel in 1668. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter, engraver and politician.
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.
Johann Rudolf Huber died in 1748, aged 80. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
