Rudolph Suhrlandt

Rudolph Friedrich Carl Suhrlandt (19 December 1781, in Ludwigslust – 2 February 1862, in Schwerin) was a German portrait painter and lithographer.

His father, Johann Heinrich Suhrlandt, was a court painter for Grand Duke Fredrick Francis I of Mecklenburg.

In 1799, he became a student at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, with a royal scholarship and a recommendation from Christian Daniel Rauch.

There, he acquainted himself with the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Classical art and came under the influence of Antonio Canova.

[1] His contract allowed him to travel for several months every two years, which he took advantage of to visit Stockholm, Saint Petersburg and London.