Franz Xaver Andreas Petter (23 October 1791 – 11 May 1866) was an Austrian artist. Petter was born in Lichtental; his father was a painter of porcelain, and it was meant that he should follow in the thesame profession, but Petter developed an engagement in oil painting. He studied below Johann Baptist Drechsler at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Franz Xaver Petter was one of the most important still-life artists of the Biedermeier time in Vienna. He specialised in floral arrangements, and superior arrangements of fruit, and landscapes later than flowers, continuing the Dutch Golden Age flower nevertheless life depicting traditions. Petter’s pictures were completely popular in the sky of the Austrian nobility.
Petter married Catherine Hamböck (1793-1858). They had two sons, Theodore, who became an artist, and Gustav, a musician. Franz Xaver Petter died in May 1866 in Vienna.
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