Franz Xaver Winterhalter Artist

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865).

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Birth dateApril 20, 1805
Birth place
Germany
Nationality
Germany
Date of deathJuly 08, 1873
Place of death
Frankfurt , Germany

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