Arthäber Family
Friedrich von Amerling, 1835
family of craftsmen
with Hubert Maurer at Vienna Academy (Akademie der bildenden Künste, 1815-24); with Josef Bergler at art academy in Prague (1824-26)
1828 –called to Vienna to paint portrait of Francis I (Emperor of Austria)
1835 – appointed court painter; retains position until 1880
1878 – elevated to the nobility
Prague (1824-26); London (1827-28; 1883); Paris and Rome (1828); Italy (1836-38; 1882); Netherlands (1839); Munich (1840-43); Spain (1882); Norway (1885); Egypt and Palestine (1886)
Francis I
Francis II of Austria, 1832 (Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna)
Princess Marie Franziska von Liechtenstein at the Age of Two, 1836 (Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna)
The Young Eastern Woman, 1838 (Cleveland Museum of Art)
Frankl, Ludwig August. Friedrich von Amerling: ein Lebensbild (1889). Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2010 (in German)
Himmelheber, Georg. Biedermeier, 1815-1835: Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, Fashion. Munich and New York: Prestel, 1989
Norman, Geraldine. Biedermeier Painting, 1815-1848: Reality Observed in Genre, Portrait, and Landscape. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987
