Robert Schneider (painter)

He was one of the first portraitists in that area to move from the earlier Romanticised style to more nearly pictorial representations.

He was the son of a Court Counselor and studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Heinrich Gotthold Arnold.

In 1832, he made the acquaintance of the art historian, Carl Friedrich von Rumohr, who became his patron and convinced him to relocate to Northern Germany.

Among his most familiar portraits is one of Helene Franziska Binder, daughter of the actor and director, Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt [de] and wife of Nicolaus Binder [de], the Mayor of Hamburg.

In 1928, a large number of his paintings were part of the exhibition "Hamburger Bildnisse" at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.