Josefine Swoboda

Her uncles were the landscape and animal painter Rudolf Swoboda (1819-1859) and the orientalist Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892).

Constantin von Wurzbach wrote in his Biographical Encyclopedia of the Empire of Austria in 1880 about her: "Her excellent work find rapid sale and the only 19-year-old artist entitled to the most beautiful hopes.

"[1] Josefine Swoboda's works were mainly watercolors, mostly portraits and (less) genre scenes and still life.

From 1886 she was regularly represented in the Vienna Künstlerhaus and participated in exhibitions in Hamburg (1887), Munich and Berlin (1888).

With interruptions and usually only during the summertime she was in England until 1899, portraying the royal family and persons of the court in numerous watercolors.