Hans Jacob Ulrich

Hans Jacob Ulrich (1798 in Zurich – 1877) was a Swiss painter. Ulrich was brought up 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 a 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.