Explore: Johann Gerhard Huck

(c.1759 - 1811)

Painter and mezzotinter, Johann Gerhard Huck, was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, where his parents ran a print shop. He trained there from 1773, before spending some six years in London, as pupil of the engraver and publisher, Valentine Green. Huck later returned to Dusseldorf to publish his own prints.