Albert Gräfle

The Freiburg-born painter Albert Gräfle is said to have turned to portrait painting in the 1830s on the advice of his teacher, Franz Xaver Winterhalter. In this instance, the twenty-eight-year-old portrays himself with a self-confident mien looking directly at the viewer. The museum owns two self-portraits by Gräfle, created forty-eight years apart.