Eybl, Franz#

b. Vienna, April 1, 1806, d. Vienna, April 29, 1880, genre-painter, portraitist and lithographer; strongly influenced by J. P. Krafft; 1853 curator of the imperial and royal picture gallery at Belvedere Palace; from 1867 teacher at the imperial Institute of Restoration. Together with F. G. Waldmueller was one of the masters of middle-class genre-painting during the "Vormaerz" period (time between the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 and the revolution of 1848).

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