Eduard Ender (3 March 1822, Rome – 28 December 1883, London) was an Austrian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. He is the son of

Johann Ender Johann Nepomuk Ender (3 November 1793 Vienna – 16 March 1854 Vienna) was an Austrian portrait painter and engraver. Biography He spent several years studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he had his debut with his canvas depictin ...

and is noted alike for his

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and genre works, among which are ''Francis I in the Studio of Cellini''; ''Shakespeare Reading “Macbeth” before the Court of Elizabeth''; ''La Corbeille de Mariage''; and ''A Game of Chess'', as well as a painting of the famous German scientist Alexander von Humboldt and his scientist travelling companion Aimé Bonpland. Humboldt did not like the painting, since the scientific instruments were not accurately depicted.Andrea Wulf, ''The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2015, caption on unnumbered color plate. Wulf does not identify the artist; she dates the picture as 1856.

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1822 births 1883 deaths 19th-century Austrian painters Austrian male painters 19th-century painters of historical subjects 19th-century Austrian male artists {{austria-painter-stub