Henri guillaume schlesinger biography of barack
Henri guillaume schlesinger biography of barack gas.
Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger
French portrait and genre painter
Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger, originally Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger (6 August , in Frankfurt am Main – 21 February , in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French portrait and genre painter of German birth.
Henri guillaume schlesinger biography of barack
He was especially known for his lively and sensitive depictions of young women.
Biography
He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and was originally active in that city. He then moved to Paris, where he participated in the Salon from to and received two medals.
During a visit to Istanbul in , he was commissioned to do several official paintings of Sultan Mahmud II, including a large equestrian portrait and one of the Sultan wearing Western-style clothing, which is now on display at the Topkapi Palace Museum.
One was donated to King Louis-Philippe by Mustafa Reşid Pasha, who was then serving as Ambassador to France, and may now be seen at Versailles.
His painting "The Five Senses" was purchas