Heinrich Gotthold Arnold (March 4, 1785 in , WachauMay 3, 1854 in Dresden) was a German painter.

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Arnold was born in 1785 at , near Radeberg in Saxony. He was a pupil of at the

Dresden Art Academy The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institution is the product o ...

, and studied the works of Titian,

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, and other great masters in the Dresden Gallery. He painted figural scenes with little girls, older women, soldiers a.s.o., portraits and sacred subjects for churches in Saxony and Poland. He became a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts himself and died in Dresden in 1854.Bryan,1886-9 His self portrait is in the collection of the Dresden Art Gallery of New Masters.

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* * Friedrich von Boetticher (ed.): Malerwerke des neunzehnten jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Part 1, vol. 1, 1891. * Wilhelm Schmidt: ''Arnold, Heinrich Gotthold''. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). vol. 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 588. * Hans Vollmer: ''Arnold, Heinrich Gotthold''. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker. vol. 2: Antonio da Monza–Bassan. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 130–131 (Textarchiv – Internet Archive). 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists 1785 births 1854 deaths People from Radeberg {{Germany-painter-stub

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