Portrait of Victoria Princess Royal
Portrait of Victoria Princess Royal (1840 – 1901) Later To Become Empress Frederick of Germany c1857 by German Painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805 – 1873), sajandi neoklassitsismi ja romantika portreekunstnik.
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter sündis väikeses Menzenschwandi külas, (nüüd Sankt Blasieni osa), Saksamaa Schwarzwaldis[1] Badeni kuurvürstkonnas, peal 20 Aprill 1805.[2] Ta oli Fidel Winterhalteri kuues laps (1773- 1863), põllumees ja vaigutootja külas, ja tema naine Eva Meyer (1765- 1838), kauaaegse Menzenschwandi perekonna liige.[2] Tema isa oli talupoegade perekonnast ja oli tema elus võimas mõjutaja. Kaheksast vennast ja õest, ainult neli elasid lapsepõlve. Kogu oma elu oli Franz Xaver oma perega väga lähedane, in particular to his brother Hermann (1808–1891), kes oli ka maalikunstnik.
After attending school at a Benedictine monastery in St. Blasien, Winterhalter left Menzenschwand in 1818 aastaselt 13 to study drawing and engraving.[4] He trained as a draughtsman and lithographer in the workshop of Karl Ludwig Schüler (1785–1852) in Freiburg im Breisgau. Sisse 1823, aastaselt 18, he went to Munich, sponsored by the industrialist Baron von Eichtal (1775–1850).[5] Sisse 1825, he was granted a stipend by Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (1763–1830) and began a course of study at the Academy of Arts in Munich with Peter von Cornelius (1783–1867), whose academic methods made him uncomfortable. Winterhalter found a more congenial mentor in the fashionable portraitist Joseph Karl Stieler (1781–1858). During this time, he supported himself working as lithographer.
Winterhalter entered court circles when in 1828 he became drawing master to Sophie Margravine of Baden, at Karlsruhe.[6] His opportunity to establish himself beyond southern Germany came in 1832 when he was able to travel to Italy, 1833–1834, with the support of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden. In Rome he composed romantic genre scenes in the manner of Louis Léopold Robert and attached himself to the circle of the director of the French Academy, Horace Vernet. On his return to Karlsruhe he painted portraits of the Grand Duke Leopold of Baden and his wife, and was appointed painter to the grand-ducal court.
Nevertheless, he left Baden to move to France, where his Italian genre scene Il dolce Farniente attracted notice at the Salon of 1836. Ka Il Decameron aasta hiljem sai kiita; mõlemad maalid on Raphaeli stiilis akadeemilised kompositsioonid. Salongis 1838 ta eksponeeris Wagrami printsi portreed koos oma väikese tütrega. Tema karjäär portreemaalijana sai peagi kindlustatud, kui ta samal aastal maalis Louise Marie Orleansist, Belglaste kuninganna, ja tema poeg. Tõenäoliselt jõudis Winterhalter selle maali kaudu kahe ametiisiku Maria Amalia tähelepanu alla, Prantsuse kuninganna, belglaste kuninganna ema.
