Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter and lithographer (born 1805)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

German painter and lithographer (1805–1873)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter 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…