Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805  – 8 July 1873) 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 Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in (1865.

Selected artworks

• A Swiss Girl from Interlaken
• A Young Girl called Princess Charlotte, 1864
• Adelina Patti, 1863
• Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 1846
• Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
• Albert, Prince Consort, 1859
• Alexandra Feodorovna, 1856
• Alexandra Iosifovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, Princess Alexandra of Altenburg
• Alexandra, Princess of Wales, 1864
• Alfred Emilien, Comte de Nieuwerkerke, 1852
• Anna Dollfus, Baronness de Bourgoing, 1855
• Antoine-Marie-Philippe-Louis d'Orleans Duc de Montpensier, 1844
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington with Sir Robert Peel, 1844
• Barbara Dmitrievna Mergassov-Rimsky-Korsakova, 1864
• Caroline Elisabeth de Lagrange, 1841
• Charles Jerome, Comte Pozzo di Borgo, 1849
• Charlotte Stuart, Viscountess Canning, 1849
• Charlotte, Princess of Belgium
• Carlota, Empress of Mexico (Princess Charlotte of Belgium)
• Chopin
• Count Jenison Walworth, 1837
• Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff, 1859
• Edouard Andre, 1857
• Elisabeth Kaiserin von Österreich, 1865
• Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, 1865
• Elzbieta Branicka, Countess Krasinka and her Children, 1853
• Emperor Don Maximiliano I of Mexico, circa 1865
• Emperor Frederick III of Germany, King of Prussia with his wife Empress Victoria, and their children Prince William and Princess Charlotte, 1862
• Emperor Napoleon III
• Empress Elisabeth of Austria in dancing dress, 1865
• Empress Eugenie
• Empress Eugenie, 1853
• Empress Eugenie, Surrounded by her Ladies-in-Waiting, 1855
• Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of France, 1857
• Eugénie, Empress Consort of the French, 1864
• Eugenie, Empress of the French
• Florinda, 1853
• Francois d'Orleans Prince of Joinville, 1843
• Francois-Horace, 1841
• Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria wearing the dress uniform of an Austrian Field Marshal with the Great Star of the Military Order of Maria Theresa, 1865
• Frubling
• Girl from Sabin Mountains, 1840
• Grand Duchess of Russia, Olga Feodorovna
• Grand Duchess Olga
• Harriet Howard, Duchess of Sutherland, 1849
• Helene-Louise de Mecklembourg-Schwerin, Duchess of Orleans with his son Count of Paris, 1839
• Henri Eugene Philippe Duc d'Aumale, Commander of the 17th Battalion of the Light Infantry
• His Royal Highness Prince Albert
• Il dolce Farniente, 1836
• Italian woman with child
• Jadwiga Potocka, Countess Branicka
• Kaiserin Auguste
• Karl Josef Berkmuller, 1830
• La Siesta, 1841
• Lady Clementina Augusta Wellington Child Villiers, 1857
• Leonilla Wittgenstein, 1849
• Leopold I
• Leopold I, 1840
• Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant
• Linden d'Hooghvorst, 1855
• Louis Philippe, 1841
• Louis Philippe I, King of the French, 1840
• Louis-Charles-Philippe of Orleans Duke of Nemours, 1843
• Louis-Philippe I, King of France
• Ludwig, Graf Von Langenstein, 1834
• Maria Carolina de Dues Sicílies
• Maria Cristina di Borbone, Princess of the Two Sicilies, circa 1818
• Maria Louise of Wagram Princess of Murat, 1854
• Maria Luisa von Spanien, 1847
• Marie Christine d'Orléans
• Marie Henriette of Austria
• Markgräfin Sophie von Baden, 1830
• Maximiliaan van Oostenrijk
• Maximilian
• Melanie de Bussiere, Comtesse Edmond de Pourtales, 1857
• Painting of baby Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
• Painting of the Count of Eu as a child
• Pauline Sandor, Princess Metternich, 1860
• Pincess Clothilde von Saxen Coburg, 1855
• Portrait équestre de François Adolphe Akermann, 1870
• Portrait of a lady, 1872
• Portrait of a Lady, 1860
• Portrait of a lady with a fan, 1850
• Portrait of a lady with roses in her hair, (Countess Pushkina)
• Portrait of Amélie of Leuchtenberg
• Portrait of Augusta of Saxe Weimar Eisenach
• Portrait of Charlotte of Belgium, 1864
• Portrait of Charlotte of Belgium, 1864
• Portrait of Count Alexei Bobrinsky, 1844
• Portrait of Countess Olga Shuvalova, 1858
• Portrait of Countess Varvara Musina-Pushkina
• Portrait of Eliza Franciszka of Branicki Krasińska, 1857
• Portrait of Emperor Napoleon III, 1855
• Portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna, 1857
• Portrait of Eugénie, Empress of the French, 1862
• Portrait of Francisca Caroline de Braganca, 1844
• Portrait of Francisca Caroline Gonzaga de Bragança, princesse de Joinville, circa 1850
• Portrait of Grand Princess Yelena Pavlovna, 1862
• Portrait of HRH Princess Marie Clementine of Orleans, 1832
• Portrait of Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier, circa 1847
• Portrait of Katarzyna Potocka, 1854
• Portrait of Katarzyna Potocka née Branicka, wife of Adam Potocki, circa 1850
• Portrait of Lady Middleton, 1863
• Portrait of Leonilla, Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein, 1843
• Portrait of Leopold I of Belgium, 1846
• Portrait of Louis d'Orleans, 1845
• Portrait of Louises von Orléans, 1841
• Portrait of Lydia Schbelsky Baroness Stael Holstein, 1857
• Portrait of Madame Ackerman, the wife of the Chief Finance Minister of King Louis Philippe, 1838
• Portrait of Madame Rimsky-Korsakov, Varvara Dmitrievna Mergassov, 1864
• Portrait of Louise, the first Queen of the Belgians, circa 1841
• Portrait of Maximilian I of Mexico
• Portrait of Prince Albert, 1843
• Portrait of Prince Henri, Duke of Aumale, Circa 1843
• Portrait of Princess Elizaveta Alexandrovna Tchernicheva, 1857
• Portrait of Princess Elizaveta Alexandrovna Tchernicheva, 1858
• Portrait of Princess of Baden, 1856
• Portrait of Princess Tatiana Alexanrovna Yusupova, 1858
• Portrait of Princess Victoria of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, 1840
• Portrait of Queen Isabella II of Spain and her daughter Infanta Isabel, 1852
• Portrait of Queen Sophie of Netherlands, born Sophie of Württemberg, 1863
• Portrait of Sophia Alexandrovna Radziwiłł, 1864
• Portrait of the Empress Eugénie, 1853
• Portrait of the Prince de Wagram and his daughter Malcy Louise Caroline Frederique Napoléon Alexandre Berthier, 1837
• Portrait of the Queen Marie Amelie of France, 1842
• Portrait of the Queen Olga of Württemberg, 1865
• Portrait of Victoria of the United Kingdom, 1843
• Portrait of Victoria of the United Kingdom, circa 1844 1845
• Portrait of Victoria, Princess Royal, 1857
• Prince Albert, 1842
• Prince Albert
• Prince Alfred and Princess Helena, 1849
• Princess Alice of England, 1861
• Princess Amelia of Bavaria, 1860
• Princess Beatrice, 1859
• Princess Catherine Dadiani
• Princess Charlotte of Belgium, 1842
• Princess Elizabeth Esperovna Belosselsky, 1859
• Princess Kotschoubey, 1860
• Princess Leonilla of Sayn
• Princess Mathilde Bonaparte
• Princess Pauline de Metternich, 1860
• Princess Tatiana Yussupova, 1858
• Queen Victoria, 1843
• Queen Victoria, 1859
• Queen Victoria, 1842
• Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with the Family of King Louis Philippe at the Chateau, 1845
• Queen Victoria with Prince Arthur, 1850
• Roman Genre Scene, 1833
• Rosa Potocka, 1856
• Self-Portrait of the Artist with his Brother, Hermann, 1840
• Sofia Gagarina, circa 1850
• Sophia Bobrinskaya, 1857
• Sophia Frederia of Wurtemberg
• Sophia Petrovna Narishkina, 1859
• Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden, 1831
• Sophie Trobetskoy, Duchess of Morny, 1863
• Spring
• Study for a portrait of Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
• Study of a Girl in Profile, 1862
• Study of Italian girl, 1834
• The Cousins: Queen Victoria and Victoire, Duchesse de Nemours, 1852
• The daughters of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1849
• The Decameron, 1837
• The Empress Eugénie, 1854
• The Empress Eugenie Holding Louis Napoleon, the Prince Imperial, on her Knees, 1857
• The Empress Eugenie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting, 1855
• The First of May, 1851
• The Maharaja Dalip Singh, 1854
• The Princess Victoria, Princess Royal as Crown Princess of Prussia in 1867, 1867
• The Royal Family in 1846, 1846
• Varvara Rimskaya-Korsakova
• Victoria, Princess Royal, 1842
• Wienczyslawa Barczewska, Madame de Jurjewicz, 1860
• William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton, 1863
• Young Italian Girl by the Well
• Zofia Potocka, Countess Zamoyska, 1870