Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-1796)
• Was an Austrian painter and engraver.
• Maulbertsch was born in Langenargen and studied in the Academy of Vienna.
• Through the knowledge of Paul Troger, he was influenced by the Venetian painters Piazzetta and Giovanni Battista Pittoni.
• He also studied the frescoes by Sebastiano Ricci in the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, and frequented Giambattista Tiepolo, who was active in Würzburg starting from 1750.
• An appreciated frescoer, he received numerous commissions, mostly of ecclesiastical theme.
• He produced art for churches in Bicske, Kalocsa, Vienna’s Michaelerkirche and Piaristenkirche Maria Treu.
• He also decorated the Porta Coeli in Moravia, the Kroměříž Archbishop's Palace and the villa of Halbturn.
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Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Saint John of Nepomuk as Patron of the Sick and Poor, c. 1761
Original, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. Visited in 2019.
Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Saint John of Nepomuk as Patron of the Sick and Poor, c. 1761
Attributed to Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Study for The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (for Saint Ulrich, Vienna), c. 1750
Original, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.
Attributed to Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Study for The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (for Saint Ulrich, Vienna), c. 1750
Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Pastoral Serenade, c. 1752
Original, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland. Visited in 2021. 
Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Pastoral Serenade, c. 1752
