He lived in Pressburg, Hungary and, in 1811, he worked as a teacher of arts for the children of Count Gyulay in Croatia.

[2] In 1817, Waldmüller returned to Vienna and spent much time copying the works of old masters and painting portraits, genre subjects, and still-life.

These are his most notable works, in which his sense of colour and knowledge of nature helped him to achieve masterly skill.

[3] Whether it was the conquest of the landscape and thus the convincing rendering of closeness or distance, the accurate characterisation of the human face, the detailed and refined description of textures, or the depiction of rural everyday life: his works – brilliant, explanatory, moralising, and socially critical – influenced a whole generation of artists.

[4] Under the Nazis, 1933–1945, many artworks by Waldmüller were seized from Jewish collectors[5] and several were channeled to Hitler's Führer Museum in Linz.