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Moritz Michael Daffinger

Wilhelm Tell Print by Moritz Michael Daffinger

Wilhelm Tell

Figurine in medieval dress, Print by Moritz Michael Daffinger

Figurine in medieval dress,

Portrait of Francis Joseph I of Austria Print by Moritz Michael Daffinger

Portrait of Francis Joseph I of Austria

Count Gilbert Borromeo Arese Print by Moritz Michael Daffinger

Count Gilbert Borromeo Arese

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Miniature of Elise Wolf

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Portrait of the Archduchess Maria Theresia

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Portrait of the Countess Ferdinandine Karolyi, née Princesse Kaunitz-Rietberg

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Countess Elisaveta Ksaverevna Vorontsova (1792-1880)

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Miniature of Aleksandra Potocka (1818-1892).

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Anna Alexeevna Tolstaya

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Conte Vittorio Amadeo Balbo-Bertone di Sambuy (1790-1849)

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Sophie Nariskina

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Mélanie Metternich

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Sophie Schröder

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Princess Karoline Arenberg

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Gilbert Borromeo Arese

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Figurine in medieval dress, titled Costumball

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Baroness von Wacquant-Geozelles

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Franz Grillparzer

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Girl with flower

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Magdalena Morska née Dzieduszycka

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Julie Alexandrowna Tatichtcheva

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Comtesse Hélène Esterhàzy, née Comtesse Bézobrazoff

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Gregor Gagarin

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Delfina Potocka

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Wife of the artist

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Portrait of Lieutenant Botha

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Bolesław Potocki

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Anton Count Lanckoronski

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Alfred Potocki (1786-1862)

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Portrait of Francis Joseph I of Austria

Moritz Michael Daffinger

Archduchess Maria Dorothea

Moritz Michael Daffinger (25 January 1790 – 21 August 1849) was an Austrian miniature painter and sculptor.

Life

He was born in Vienna, the son of Johann Daffinger (1748–1796), a painter at the local porcelain manufactory. The eleven-year-old likewise was accepted as an apprentice and later went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended painting lessons with Heinrich Füger. His specialty remained painting on china.


Portrait of Countess Ferdinandine Karolyi, c. 1840

From 1809 he worked only on portraits, specializing in miniature painting on ivory. In 1812 was employed as a portraitist by the Austrian Foreign Minister Klemens von Metternich and became administrated the extensive portrait collection of Metternich's third wife Princess Melanie. He was influenced by Jean-Baptiste Isabey and even stronger by the English portrait painter Thomas Lawrence, who visited Vienna in 1819. In his late years he concentrated on the painting of flowers.

Daffinger died in 1849 during a cholera epidemic in Vienna and was buried in the St. Marx Cemetery. In 1912 his mortal remains were transferred to an Ehrengrab in the Vienna Zentralfriedhof. Daffinger left more than a thousand portraits were mostly owned by the Austrian imperial House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

His portrait graced the obverse of the Austrian 20-schilling banknote that circulated until the introduction of the euro in 1999.

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