Since 1699, he studied painting in Prague under Johann Rudolf Byss and is recorded there as a member the Old Town Painter Guild between 1707 and 1727.
Among his pupils belong the early Roccoco painter John Caspar Hirschely and Carl Kastner.
Other than his work stay at the Monastery of Osek (1719–1722), Johann Adalbert Angermayer spent most of his life in Prague, where he died on 10 May 1742.
He was greatly influenced by the Leiden Fijnschilders,[2] as was his teacher Johann Rudolf Byss, who studied in Netherlands.
Most of his work can be classified as cabinet still life, because the width or height of his paintings rarely exceeds 35 cm.