Anton Hickel
(1745-1798), ArtistKarl Anton Hickel
Artist associated with 5 portraits
A portrait painter in Southern Germany and Switzerland, Karl Anton Hickel went to Paris in 1786, where he fulfilled numerous portrait commissions, and counted Empress Marie Antoinette among his sitters. Forced to leave France following the French Revolution, he became an artist of note in London, where he painted the portraits of many prominent figures.
by Anton Hickel
oil on canvas, 1793-1795
NPG 745
Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip
by Anton Hickel
oil on canvas, feigned oval, 1793
NPG 3993
by Johann Gerhard Huck, after Anton Hickel
mezzotint, (1790s)
NPG D40238
by John Young, after Anton Hickel
mezzotint, published 1797
NPG D2009
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