Johann Jakob Frey

For the 18th-century Swiss engraver, see Johann Jakob Frey the Elder.

Frey as the painter of the Lepsius expedition on the Cheops pyramid in 1842. Frey is in the group at the bottom right.

Johann Jakob Frey (27 January 1813 - 30 September 1865), a Swiss landscape painter, a native of Basle, studied principally in Italy, and his views of that country are much valued. From Egypt, whither he accompanied Professor Lepsius, he brought many excellent sketches of the pyramids, labyrinths etc. It is to be regretted that he was obliged to make but a short stay on account of his health. His painting of 'Chamsyn in the Desert,' in the possession of the Emperor of Germany, was produced in 1845, and is greatly admired. He died at Frascati, near Rome, in 1865. The Modern Gallery at Munich has his Two Memnons near Thebes.

Selected works

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  Sun Breaking through Clouds above the Roman Campagna
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  View of Rome from Monte Mario
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  View of Karnak in Egypt
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  Path in the Mountains Above Rome
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  View of Tivoli
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  Pyramides of Giseh

Notes

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Frey, Johannes". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.