Henrik Weber

1818 – 1866

Hungarian painter. He was T. Kaerling's pupil in Pest, then Leopold Kupelwieser's and Johann Ender 's in Vienna. He lived on private lessons and lithographs. He painted genre lives in the 1830s (Dressing the Bride, Palm Sunday, etc.). He went to Munich in 1840. On his return to Hungary, he painted several historic pictures (János Hunyadi's Death, 1844, King Solomon in Prison, 1852, etc.). He visited Italy in 1845-47 where he painted vedutas and women in folk dress. He was a notable portraitist of his period ( Composer Mihály Mosonyi and his Wife, Pest Citizen).

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