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Franz Xaver Winterhalter

DateMonday, April 21, 2014 at 11:06AM

Franz Xavier Winterhalter - Portrait of the Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Maids of Honor, 1855, oil on canvas, Musée National de Palais de Compiégnie (click photo for larger image)Academic Painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1875) was born in the small village of Mensenschwad in Germany. He studied painting at the academy of Monaco. In 1835, after he painted portrait of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden, Winterhalter was appointed his court painter. With that portrait his international career was launched. The royal families of England, France, and Belgium all commissioned their portraits from him. 

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