Felix Ivo Leicher (1727 - 1812)

• Was a Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works.
• He was born in the Silesian town Bílovec, today on the wall to the right of the main entrance of the parish church is a plaque that hangs in his memory.
• He was apprenticed to a weaver, and later studied cutlery at school.
• But his break came in a local painter shop with Francis Andrew Schaffer, where he learned the basics of painting.
• Painting excited him and it became his entire life.
• From 1751 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and in 1754 in a competition he received the second prize for painting Anointing Saul the King.
• His teacher there was Franz Anton Maulbertsch.
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