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7 unusual facts about Franz Xaver Winterhalter


Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg

He married in 1849, Anne Mortier of Trévise (1824–1900), granddaughter of marshal Mortier duke of Trévise, who was lady of the Table of Empress Eugenie, and who appeared in the extreme right-hand side of the famous painting of Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

After the war, the painter did not return to France going instead to Baden.

In the Salon of 1838 he exhibited a portrait of the Prince of Wagram with his young daughter.

Winterhalter entered court circles when in 1828 he became drawing master to Sophie Margravine of Baden, at Karlsruhe.

Hermann Winterhalter

Hermann Fidel Winterhalter (23 September 1808 – 24 February 1891) was a German painter, younger brother of the portrait painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1806-73).

The Personal Jewel Collection of Elizabeth II

In Franz Xaver Winterhalter's painting 'The First of May', made in 1851, Victoria can be seen wearing it as she holds Prince Arthur, the future Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.

Winterhalter

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–1873), German painter and lithographer, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century



see also

Winterhalter

Hermann Winterhalter (1808–1891), German painter, younger brother of Franz Xaver Winterhalter