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Austro-Hungarian painter (–)

Friedrich von Amerling (14 April – 14 January ) was an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter in the court of Franz Josef.^[1] He was born in Vienna and was court painter between and With Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, he is one of the outstanding Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century.

Biography

He was the son of the gold- and silversmith Franz Amerling and Theresia Kargl. He studied from to at the academy of the arts in Vienna, before journeying to Prague where he studied at the Academy until He spent and in London, where he was influenced by the portrait painter Thomas Lawrence.^[2] Further journeys led him to Paris, where he studied with Horace Vernet, and Rome; he then returned to Vienna, where after he worked for the Austrian court, the aristocracy and middle class.

He received the Reichel prize of the academy in Vienna in

Amerling spent much time traveling: in and to Italy, to the Nethe