(1823 - 1868)
Portrait painter Richard Lauchert was born at Sigmaringen, Germany, in 1823. In 1839 he moved to Munich to study painting. He also spent time in Paris from 1845, before eventually settling in Berlin in 1860, to begin his career. Lauchert was employed as a portrait painter by the courts of England, Germany and Russia. He was court painter to Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and, in 1857, married the Prince’s sister, Princess Amalie of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, in Hersleben, Germany. At Christmas in 1858, he died of a heart attack in Berlin, aged just 44.
