Heinrich Gotthold Arnold



Heinrich Gotthold Arnold (March 4, 1785 in Lomnitz (Wachau), Wachau – May 3, 1854 in Dresden) was a German painter.

Life
Arnold was born in 1785 at Lomnitz (Wachau), near Radeberg in Saxony. He was a pupil of Johann David Schubert at the Dresden Art Academy, and studied the works of Titian, Guido Reni, and other great masters in the Dresden Gallery. He painted figural scenes with little girls, older women, soldiers a.s.o., portraits and sacred subjects for churches in Saxony and Poland. He became a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts himself and died in Dresden in 1854.

His self portrait is in the collection of the Dresden Art Gallery of New Masters.