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| | Johann Zoffany - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Zoffany was born Johannes Zauffaly in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, on 13 March 1733, the son of Anton Franz Zauffaly. |
 | | In the late 1750s Zoffany married Antonie Eiselein, daughter of a court councillor at Würzburg, who became homesick and left him sometime after 1760, when he moved from Trier to London in search of fame and fortune. |
 | | However, Zoffany found it difficult to regain his London practice; in 1783 he sailed for India and made his fortune in Calcutta, returning to England in 1789. |
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