Johann Georg Edlinger

Johann Georg Edlinger (1 March 1741 – 15 September 1819) was an Austrian portrait painter.

Self portrait, 1786, now in the Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Augsburg

Edlinger was born at Graz in 1741. He was a pupil of Desmarées, and became court painter at Munich, where he died in 1819. His portraits are well painted, and show a leaning towards the works of Rembrandt. Some of his portraits of eminent Bavarians, engraved by Friedrich John, appeared in 1821 under the title Sammlung von Bildnissen denkwürdiger Männer.

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  Family portrait, ca. 1800, now in the Neue Pinakothek
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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ca. 1790, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
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  Heinrich Zimmermann, a companion of Captain Cook on his travels around the world

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Edlinger, Johann Georg". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.