Franz Ludwig Raufft (5 October 1660 in Luzern – 1719 in Kassel), was a German Baroque painter. He was the son of the decoration painter Melchior Raufft (born 11 February 1635) or of the portrait painter Martin Raufft.
According to Houbraken he joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Fondament". Franz Ludwig Raufft biography as footnote 85: "Rouw" in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature He painted historical allegories and ceiling decorations for the Landgraaf Hessenkessel. He lived with Goudsbloem (Christian Berentz) in Hamburg after a period in Rome.
According to the RKD he lived in Paris, Rome, Hamburg, and the Hague before moving to Kassel.Franz Ludwig Raufft in the RKD
Selected works Beheading of John the Baptist, not dated, oil on canvas, 249.5 x 171 x 9.5 cm, Kunstmuseum Luzern, previously town hall, Lucerne Christ on the Mount of Olives (sepia image) and navy, Meyer-am Rhyn Collection, Lucerne Battle of VW-mergen (dated 1656), Korporationsverwaltung, Lucerne St. Ambrose appears to the Milanese in a Battle in 1338 and drives away the enemies (oil sketch for an altarpiece), ca. 1680, oil on canvas, 52.5 x 41.5 x 5 cm, Kunstmuseum Luzern, deposit of BEST Art Collection, Lucerne
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Franz Ludwig Raufft on Artnet
Simona Sperindei, Niccolò Maria Pallavicini, mecenate, collezionista e protettore di Christian Berentz, in "Annali della Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Lettere dei Virtuosi al Pantheon", XII, 2012, pp. 537–542.