Joseph Ignaz Schilling

Joseph Ignaz Schilling was a Munich court painter who took midnight strolls to sketch the city’s back alleys in his coat pockets, ink still wet. He once painted a bishop’s portrait with a bruise-like shadow under the chin, not to flatter but to show how candlelight loves a face. Look for his 1737 portrait of Canon Johann Jakob Fugger tied to the Fuggerhäuser in Augsburg, if you find the green curtain behind him, you’ve spotted his signature.