František Xaver Tkadlík (1786–1840)

• Was a Czech painter, graphic artist and pedagogue.
• František Tkadlík was born as the first-born son in Prague's Lesser Town in Mostecká Street.
• From 1803 to 1807 he studied painting and drawing at the Prague Academy.
• In 1816 he moved to Vienna and became the court painter of the Czernin family.
• In 1824 he received a state scholarship to stay in Rome, where he lived and worked until 1832.
• In 1836 he returned to Prague, where he was called to the post of director of the Art Academy.
• He lived in Klementinum, where the academy was located at the time, and he was single.
• Among his pupils were Josef Mánes, František Čermák, Eduard Herold, Karel Javůrek and Josef Božetěch Klemens.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: František Tkadlík, Head of a Young Girl Looking Upwards, 1820.
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