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Franz Xaver Winterhalter
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Born April 20, 1805 • Germany
Died July 8, 1873 (aged 68) • Frankfurt am Main • Germany

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter: portrait of Albert, Prince Consort
Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Empress Eugénie Surrounded by Her Ladies in Waiting
Eugénie, detail of a portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter; in the Collection de Mouchy, Paris
Franz Joseph
Louis-Philippe
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Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
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Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Ludwig Meidner
German artist and writer
Runge, Philipp Otto: Red Currant
Philipp Otto Runge
German artist
Hans Holbein, the Elder
German painter
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
Winold Reiss
Winold Reiss
German-American artist
Self-Portrait with the Image of Death, oil on canvas by Lovis Corinth, 1896; in the Stadtische Galerie in Lembachhaus, Munich, Germany.
Lovis Corinth
German painter
Sir Peter Lely, etching after a painting by the artist.
Sir Peter Lely
Dutch painter
Mengs, Anton Raphael: Portrait of Isabel Parreño y Arce, Marquesa de Llano
Anton Raphael Mengs
Bohemian painter
Portrait of an Old Woman, etching on wove paper by Wilhelm Leibl, c. 1865; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 20.95 × 15.87 cm.
Wilhelm Leibl
German painter
Feuerbach, Anselm
Anselm Feuerbach
German painter
Franz von Lenbach
German painter
Asmus Jacob Carstens
German painter
Hans Leonhard Schäuffelein
German painter
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein: Goethe in the Roman Campagna
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
German painter
Netscher, Caspar: Self-Portrait
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