Johann Nepomuk Ender was an Austria

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Biography

As a portrait painter, he was successful at an early age. In 1818-1819, he made a tour of Italy

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, Turkey and Greece

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, remaining in Rome

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 1820-1826. Upon his return to Vienna, he devoted his attention to miniature

Miniature painting

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 and historical paintings

History painting

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, being professor at the Academy from 1829 to 1850.

Works

Among his works are:

• “Madonna with Slumbering Christ Child” (Vienna Museum)
• “Marcus Aurelius on His Death Bed” (1814, Esterhazy Gallery)
• “The Crucifixion”, his masterpiece (a fresco in the Vienna Cathedral)
• “Orestes Pursued by the Furies” (1815)
• “Minerva Showing Ithaca to Ulysses” (1816)
• “Assumption” (1817)
• “Sleeping at Christ's Sepulchre” (1817)
• “Judith”
• “Bacchus Finding Ariadne”

and many portraits.