Featured Artist at the e.Gallery: Franz-Xaver Winterhalter


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Today’s Featured Artist at the e.Gallery is a 19th Century artist, Franz-Xaver Winterhalter [German, 1805?-1873] Link: http://fineart.elib.com/fineart.php?dir=Alphabetical/Winterhalter_Franz-Xaver

Franz Xaver
Winterhalter
(b. 1805 Menzenschwand, Germany, d. 1875 Frankfurt
am Main, Germany), was a German painter. He was born in a
small village in Germany’s Black Forest, Franz Xaver Winterhalter
left his home to study painting at the academy in Munich. Before
becoming court painter to Louis-Philippe, the king of France, he
joined a circle of French artists in Rome. In 1835, after he
painted the German Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden, Winterhalter’s
international career as a court portrait painter was launched.
Although he never received high praise for his work in his native
Germany, the royal families of England, France, and Belgium all
commissioned him to paint portraits. His monumental canvases
established a substantial popular reputation, and lithographic
copies of the portraits helped to spread his fame.


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Portrait of the Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Maids of Honor

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Empress Eugénie

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Portrait of Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov

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Empress Elisabethof Austria in Courtly Gala Dress with Diamond Stars
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