Johann Georg Edlinger
Self portrait, 1786, now in the Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Augsburg
Johann Georg Edlinger (1 March 1741 – 15 September 1819) was an Austrian portrait painter.
Edlinger was born at Graz in 1741. He was a pupil of Desmarées, and became court painter at Munich, where he died in 1819. His portraits are well painted, and show a leaning towards the works of Rembrandt. Some of his portraits of eminent Bavarians, engraved by , appeared in 1821 under the title Sammlung von Bildnissen denkwürdiger Männer.
Family portrait, ca. 1800, now in the Neue Pinakothek
Heinrich Zimmermann, a companion of Captain Cook on his travels around the world
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Edlinger, Johann Georg". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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