Karl Anton Hickel (1745 – 1798)

• Hickel was an 18th-century Austrian painter.
• Hickel was born in Česká Lípa, Bohemia.
• He enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Vienna, Austria in 1758.

• He worked as a painter under his brother, Joseph Hickel.

• Beginning in 1779, he served as a traveling portrait painter.

• He spent considerable time in Munich where he painted Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, among others.

• He then traveled in southern Germany, Switzerland, then to Mannheim and Mainz.

• He moved to Switzerland in 1785, and then became the official court painter of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.

• In 1786, he travelled to France where he painted under the patronage of Marie Antoinette and Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe.

• He died in Hamburg. 

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