Friedrich von Amerling

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Maiden with a Straw Hat by Friedrich von Amerling

Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887)
Maiden with a Straw Hat (around 1835)

Oil on canvas, 59,0 x 47,0 cm
1935 acquired on the art market
Inv. no. 9999

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Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887)

Neue Pinakothek

Cabinet 10a

After completing a course of study at the Academy in Vienna and Prague, Amerling travelled to England and Paris in 1827, where he was strongly influenced by the artists Thomas Lawrence and Horace Vernet. In 1828 he returned to Vienna where he began his career as a history painter before he achieved fame as a portraitist in 1832 with his painting of Kaiser Franz I. On his way back from a stay in the Netherlands in 1833 where he studied the works of Peter Paul Rubens, he came in contact with the Academy in Düsseldorf. The virtuoso portraitist, famous for his keen perception, was popular with the Viennese society. Between 1841 and 1844 he to took up residence in Florence and Rome.