Anton von Maron (1733 - 1808). Anton von Maron was born the son of the painter Johann Leopold Maron and his wife Anna Catharina. In 1741 and 1744 he was named in the student lists of the Vienna Academy, where he studied art. In 1755 Maron traveled to Rome. There he lived with his teacher Anton Raphael Mengs. In 1765 he married Meng's sister, the painter Theresa Concordia Mengs. A year later, Maron became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Subsequently, he specialized in portrait painting. Through this he got to know important contemporary personalities and was able to establish contacts between Roman and Viennese art life. In 1772 Maron worked as a consultant in the reorganization of the Vienna Academy. At his recommendation, the art school sent scholarship holders south this year. In the same year, Maron was raised to the nobility. He held important positions at the art academies in Rome and Vienna and held lectures on art theory. In 1757 and 1760/61, Maron worked with Mengs on frescoes in the church of San Eusebio and on the parnassus of the Villa Albani in Rome. After Mengs was called to Madrid in 1761, Maron had the opportunity to take up his position as a portrait painter. Maron's portrait of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, which is in the Goethe room of the Weimar City Palace, is considered the main work of the first years of his independent activity. A true to original replica of this Winckelmann portrait is in Wörlitz. From 1770, several portraits of members of the Austrian imperial family were created, including a picture of the Empress Maria Theresa in widow costume. In the past few years, Maron's painting style has gone out of fashion due to the work of Angelika Kauffmann. However, he is one of the most important representatives of early classicism.