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| Anton Hickel (1745–1798) | ||||||||||
| An Austrian portrait painter, Karl Anton Hickel was born at Česká Lípa, Bohemia, and studied under his brother Joseph Hickel, and at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna. Active in Vienna, Munich, and Mannheim, he travelled through the Tyrol into Switzerland in 1777. Between 1779 and 1780, he served as court painter to Karl Theodor, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, and in 1786, he went to France, where he painted portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette and Princess of Lamballe. Following the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, he moved to England, where he painted numerous notable figures. In 1793, Hickel began a remarkable painting of the interior of the House of Commons, featuring ninety-six life-size portraits of members, with William Pitt addressing the House. This work, which took him two years to complete, was carried with him when he left England in 1797, and later, in 1885, it was donated to the National Portrait Gallery by Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. Hickel continued his work in Hamburg, where he died. | ||||||||||
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