Portrait of Fanny von Arnstein
Vincenz Georg Kininger
1804

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Vincenz Georg Kininger
Vincenz Georg Kininger was a watercolor painter, portrait miniaturist, engraver, and lithographer. Born in Regensburg, Bavaria, he moved to Vienna as a child with his family. When he was still a teenager, he entered the Vienna Academy and, in 1807, became Professor of Mezzotinto Engraving there. He is best known for his portraits of members of the Viennese upper class.
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