Franz Xaver Winterhalter

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter 1805 - 1873) was a German painter, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his most well known works are: Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1864).

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