# Portrait of Prince Joseph Wenzel von Liechtenstein [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SOLIMENA, Francesco]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 126 x 101 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Prince Joseph Wenzel von Liechtenstein c. 1720 Oil on canvas, 126 x 101 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna Prince Joseph Wenzel \(1696-1772\) was the Reigning Prince of Liechtenstein from 1712 to 1718 and from 1748 to 1772. He secured a place in military history primarily through his efficient technical and personnel reorganisation of the Austrian artillery, which he made into the powerful instrument of the Imperial army. The baton, armour, and sword lying to one side in the portrait references to his military career. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Reign]() - [Bathsheba Bathing]() - [Battle between Lapiths and Centaurs]() - [Ceiling painting]() - [Dido Receiving Aeneas and Cupid Disguised as Ascanius]() - [Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple]() - [Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple]() - [Fall of Simon Magus \(detail\)]() - [Fall of Simon Magus]() - [Frieze \(detail\)]() - [Frieze \(detail\)]() - [General view of the sacristy]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()