Richard Alfred Eugen Jettel (20 March 1845 – 27 August 1901) was a painter, producing mainly landscapes.

In 1860, Jettel entered the class of Albert Zimmermann in the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he met Emil Jakob Schindler, Robert Russ and Rudolf Ribarz; there, he studied landscape painting and stayed until 1869.

[citation needed] Jettel moved to Paris in 1873 to take up a well-paying job for the Austrian art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer, and led a successful artistic life there.

He was at the centre of a circle of Austrian and German artists in Paris, but also had contact with French peers (including serving as a teacher to Émile Barau [fr]) and ties to the Barbizon school.

[3] Still successful artistically, he received patronage from Archduke Charles Stephen and his wife Archduchess Maria Theresia.