Joseph Karl Stieler
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Joseph Karl Stieler (1 November 1781 — 9 April 1858) was a German painter. He was born in Mainz. His family were engravers and die-cutters. He received some artistic training from his father, August Friedrich Stieler (1736-1789). He began his career as a painter of miniatures.
In 1810, Stieler traveled through Italy and painted a portrait of Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte, mother of Napoleon I.
In 1816, he traveled to Vienna and painted portrait of Emperor Francis I of Austria.
Between February and April 1820, he worked on his portrait of Beethoven, which is probably the most well-known representation of the composer today.
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Photograph c. 1857 by Franz Hanfstaengl
Gallery of Beauties, Nimfenburg
A portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, 1820. Possibly Stieler's most reproduced work.
Cornelia Vetterlein, 1828
King Ludwig I in his Coronation Robes 1826
- HeleneSedlmayr
Lady Jane Elizabeth Digby, daughter of Admiral Henry Digby of Trafalgar
Auguste-Amélie de Bavière Stieler
