Collection: John Theodore Heins

John Theodore (also Dietrich or Dirk) Heins was a British painter and engraver of German origin. He was one of the leading Norwich portrait painters of the 18th century. Heins probably originally came from Germany. Around 1720 he emigrated to England and settled in Norwich, where he worked as a painter. Until the 1730s, Norwich was the second most important city after London and was considered cosmopolitan.