Wilhelm August Rieder

Wilhelm August Rieder (October 30, 1796 – September 8, 1880), was an Austrian painter and draughtsman.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he first met and befriended Franz Schubert.

[citation needed] He subsequently painted a number of Schubert's portraits.

Rieder also painted a number of religious and historical themed works.

He became professor of drawing at the Institute of Engineering in Vienna in 1825, and in 1855 was appointed to a similar post at the Military Academy at Wiener Neustadt.

Oil portrait painting of Franz Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder, after his own 1825 watercolor portrait, Vienna Museum , 1875