[1] [2] [3] A member of the House of Habsburg he was the younger brother of Francis I of Austria.

During the Napoleonic Wars he has commanded Austrian forces in the Allied coalitions against the French Empire.

Lawrence was Britain's leading portrait painter of the Regency era.

From 1814 he was commissioned by the Prince Regent to paint the leading members of the coalition that defeated Napoleon.

Influenced by the military portraits of Joshua Reynolds, it show the archduke as towering figure despite his relatively short stature in real life.