Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Winterhalter in 1865
Born	(1805-04-20)20 April 1805 Menzenschwand, Black Forest, Electorate of Baden
Died	8 July 1873(1873-07-08) (aged 68) Frankfurt am Main, German Empire
Nationality	German
Known for	Painting, litography
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th 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).