Franz von Defregger (Ederhof, April 30, 1835 - Munich, January 2, 1921) was an Austrian artist. He went to Munich in 1861 to study under Hermann Dyck and Hermann Anschütz. In 1863 he travelled to Paris, where he continued his artistic education auto-didactically by a routine of figure drawing and a thorough study of the museums, art collections and studios. Defregger became one of the leading genre painters in Munich, and became a professor of history painting at the Munich Academy, where he continued to teach until 1910.
[Sold for £31,250 at Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 85 x 75 cm]