(b Pest [now Budapest], 1819; d Milan, 26 Jan 1885). Hungarian painter and teacher. He studied from 1841 in the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna under Leopold Kupelwieser, and later in Italy. In 1840 his landscapes and in 1841 his portraits and genre paintings were shown in the exhibitions of the ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF PEST. In Pest he was one of many academy-trained artists who painted shop signs. He published a lithograph of his historical picture of János Hunyadi in the Artists Association paper of 1847, but it was badly reviewed in the national press. From the early 1840s until 1863 he worked in Italy, for a time under Károly Markó (i). From Italy he sent to the Pest exhibitions such paintings as The Antiquarian (1846; Budapest, N.G.). In 1854 he showed his painting Four Seasons in Vienna, and subsequently the Habsburg Archduke Maximilian (later Emperor of Mexico) commissioned him to paint pictures for Miramare Castle, near Trieste. After his return home he ran a painting school for a few months in Pest, where he conducted classes in life drawing, landscape, decorative and flower drawing. In 1863 he executed the frescoes for the Festetich Palace in Budapest and made two sketches for the new dining hall at the Vigado Concert Hall (Attila the Great’s Banquet and King Matyas’s Wedding), although the commission went to Károly Lotz and Mór Than. In 1866 Heinrich painted a St Cecilia altarpiece for the organ loft of the cathedral at Szekesfehérvár and an Annunciation for its south chapel. In 1867 his picture of Francis-Joseph’s Coronation (Budapest, N.G.) was bought by the Emperor. At the end of the 1860s he became a successful portrait painter in Vienna, and in the early 1870s he was commissioned by Miklos Ybl to paint portraits of Titian and Veronese for the medallions on the garden wall of Buda Castle. At the end of his life he eked out a living by painting portraits.