# SEISENEGGER, Jacob [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: ?–1567 - Profession: painter - School: Austrian ## Biography Austrian painter, chiefly a portraitist. In 1531 he became court painter to the emperor Ferdinand I at Augsburg and he worked much for the Habsburg family. He was a painter of modest talent, but has some importance in the development of the full-length portrait; his famous work is the full-length portrait of Charles V \(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna\), which served as a model for the more famous one by Titian \(Prado, Madrid\). Seisenegger travelled widely, working in Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain, as well as in various cities in Central Europe: Innsbruck, Prague, Vienna. ## Related artworks - [Archduchess Maria with Her Elder Daughter Maria Eleonore]() - [Portrait of Emperor Charles V]() - [Portrait of Wilhelm Neythart]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()