Anton Hickel

Anton Hickel studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Training under Joseph Hickel is recorded. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Vienna, Munich and Mannheim. Positions recorded include court painter. Work by Anton Hickel is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Royal Museums Greenwich, Landesmuseum Mainz, National Portrait Gallery and Bavarian State Painting Collections.

Hickel was born in Česká Lípa, Bohemia, and enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Vienna, Austria in 1758. After graduation, he worked as a painter under his brother, Joseph Hickel, who was also a painter. Beginning in 1779, he served as a traveling portrait painter. He spent considerable time in Munich where he painted Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, among others. He then traveled in southern Germany, Switzerland, then to Mannheim and Mainz. He moved to Switzerland in 1785, and then became the official court painter of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor. In 1786, he travelled to France where he painted under the patronage of Marie Antoinette and Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe. He died in Hamburg. In London in the 1790s, he painted the large The House of Commons, 1793–94, first exhibited in 1795 and now in the National Portrait Gallery. He painted portraits of leading British politicians such as Charles James Fox and William Wilberforce.

• Illustration — Portrait of Charles James Fox, 1794 • Illustration — Roxelana and Suleiman the Magnificent • Illustration — Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria • Illustration — William Wilberforce • Illustration — Richard Brinsley Sheridan • Illustration — Welbore Ellis • Illustration — The House of Commons, 1793–94