Anton Petter

Anton Petter

Anton Petter (April 12, 1781, Vienna – May 14, 1858, Vienna) was a painter from the Austrian Empire.

He visited Rome in 1808. In 1820 he became professor at the academy of Vienna, and in 1828 he was named director of that institution.^[1]

He won several prizes at the academy of Vienna, to which he was admitted in 1814 in reward for his “Meleager murdered by his Mother in the Arms of his Wife.”^[1]

Among his works are:^[1]

• “Meeting of Maximilian with his Bride, Mary of Burgundy”
• “Rudolph of Habsburg”
• “Queen Joan beside the Coffin of her Husband Philip”
• “Charles V. visiting his Prisoner, Francis I”

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