Franz Eybl, born in 1806, is one of the most important Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century. Already at the age of 10, he was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he first attended the Erzverschneidungs- und Kunst professionisten schule under Josef Klieber. In 1817 he changed to landscape painting and then to the class of history painting. His teacher Johann Peter Krafft encouraged him to observe nature closely and thus Eybl became one of Krafft’s most important students. In his portraits Franz Ebyl always strived for truthfulness and true-to-life representation....