Hans Jacob Ulrich

Who was Hans Jacob Ulrich?

Hans Jacob Ulrich, Swiss painter, born at Zurich in 1798, was brought up by his parents to be a merchant, but gave up business and devoted himself to painting. He travelled in France, Italy, England, and the Netherlands for improvement, and became a successful painter of landscapes, sea-pieces, birds, and animals. He was at one time Professor at the Zurich Polytechnic. He was an exhibitor at the Salon between 1824 and 1840. Many of his landscapes were English in origin, and he was one of the first of his country to profit by the finer styles of the north in that branch of art. Examples of his work exist in the museums of Orléans and Nantes. C. Huber etched a series of sixty plates from his designs.