John Theodore Heins

John Theodore Heins
self-portrait from the painting A Music Party at Melton Constable (1734)
Bornc.1697
Germany 
Died1756 
OccupationPainter 
ChildrenJohn Heins 

John Theodore Heins (c.16971756) was a painter and engraver, probably of German birth, but active in Great Britain. He settled in Norwich and by 1720 was working on a series of portraits of members of prominent local families.