Friedrich (Fritz) Bury was Court painter to the royal courts of Kassel and Brussels, a German painter born in Hanau. He studied first under his father Jean Jacques Bury, who was a goldsmith and professor in the Academy of Design in Hanau, and with Anton Wilhelm Tischbein. In 1780 he visited for two years the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he met Johann Heinrich Lips, with whom he returned to Hanau at the age of 19 and two month later they traveled to Rome. From November 1782 to July 1785 he lived with a nephew of Tischbein, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Johann Georg Schütz and Lips in a rear building of the Palazzo Piombino in Via del Babuino 51. Later they followed their landlord to Via del Corso no. 18, now known as the Casa di Goethe, as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also lived and worked there for over a year.