"Joseph Schmidt (printmaker; Austrian; Male; 1750 - 1816)
Also known as: Schmidt, Joseph
Biography: Reproductive printmaker in Vienna. b. in Bohemia and dumb from birth. Blind from 1811. Pupil of Schmutzer in Vienna. Work of a wide variety, including a fine series of imitations of drawings by Rembrandt." - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=108239, 02.01.2018
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