Franz Eduard Meyerheim

Franz Eduard Meyerheim (10 October 1838, Berlin - 5 April 1880, Marburg) was a German genre painter.

His younger brother, Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, was also a painter.

He also travelled extensively, to Tyrolia, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland, making sketches of humble, rural people, who would be his primary subjects.

Following a reorganization of the Prussian Academy, he was appointed Professor of anatomical drawing, a post he held until 1878, when illness forced him to retire.

He died two years later, while convalescing in Marburg, at the age of forty-two.