Heinrich von Angeli

Heinrich Anton von Angeli (8 July 1840 – 21 October 1925) was an Austrian historian and portrait painter.

The Angeli family was originally from Venice and was ennobled by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II in 1565.

[2] The success of Angeli at painting society portraits was partly due to his skill in depicting uniforms, pearls, and other jewels.

[3] Unlike painters such as Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Angeli worked in a naturalistic style and preferred to portray his sitters as they were.

As well as royal figures and politicians, he painted other notable people, such as the German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann.

Angeli's portrait of Queen Victoria