Friedrich Philipp Reinhold (1779 – 1840)
• Was an Austrian painter, etcher and lithographer.
• Reinhold was the son of the portrait painter Johann Friedrich Leberecht Reinhold, father of the painters Franz Xaver Reinhold, Friedrich Reinhold and Karl Reinhold.
• His younger brothers were the landscape painter Gustav Reinhold and the painter and engraver Johann Heinrich Carl Reinhold.
• From 1797 he studied genre and portrait painting at the Dresden Art Academy under Johann Eleazar Zeissig.
• After completing his studies, he came to Prague, where he painted the curtain of the Estates Theater in 1804.
• From 1805 to 1811 Reinhold studied history painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he met Friedrich Overbeck and other Nazarenes.
• He spent the years 1811 and 1812 as a portrait painter in Gera, from 1813 he lived in Vienna.
• Reinhold initially worked as a portrait and history painter.
• After 1816 he mainly devoted himself to landscape painting.
