Eduard Ender (3 March 1822,

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– 28 December 1883,

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) was an

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. He is the son of

Johann Ender Johann Nepomuk Ender (3 November 1793 – 16 March 1854) was an Austrian portrait painter and engraver. Biography He spent several years studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he had his debut with his canvas depicting the death of ...

and is noted alike for his

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and

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works, among which are ''Francis I in the Studio of Cellini''; ''Shakespeare Reading “Macbeth” before the Court of Elizabeth''; ''La Corbeille de Mariage''; and ''A Game of Chess'', as well as a painting of the famous German scientist

Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, natural history, naturalist, List of explorers, explorer, and proponent of Romanticism, Romantic philosophy and Romanticism ...

and his scientist travelling companion

Aimé Bonpland Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (; 22 August 1773 – 11 May 1858) was a French List of explorers, explorer and botany, botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804. He co-authored volumes of the scie ...

. Humboldt did not like the painting, since the scientific instruments were not accurately depicted.Andrea Wulf, ''The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2015, caption on unnumbered color plate. Wulf does not identify the artist; she dates the picture as 1856.

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1822 births 1883 deaths 19th-century Austrian painters Austrian male painters 19th-century painters of historical subjects 19th-century Austrian male artists {{austria-painter-stub