Wilhelm Trautschold | |
Birth Date: | 2 June 1815 |
Birth Place: | Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia |
Death Place: | Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria |
Education: | German: [[Academy of Arts, Berlin|Berlin Akademie der Kunste]] |
Occupation: | Portrait painter |
Relatives: | Hermann Trautschold |
Wilhelm Trautschold (1815–1877) was a German portrait painter.
Trautschold was born in Berlin on 2 June 1815.[1] He was trained at the German: [[Academy of Arts, Berlin|Berlin Akademie der Kunste]] and in Düsseldorf. He lived in London from 1860.[2]
His works are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. One of his paintings of Justus von Liebig was used on a German 100 Reichsmark note in 1935.
He died in Munich on 7 January 1877. He was brother of paleontologist Hermann Trautschold.