Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The first famous professional portrait painter was the Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Every subsequent century had its own important portraitist. At the end of the 18th century, one of them, Barbora Krafftová, was born on the Bohemian-Moravian border.

Czech portrait painting in Europe is famous for the portrait of W. A. Mozart by the Jihlava painter Barbora Krafftová and the portrait of Marinetti's South Bohemian painter Růžena Zátková. The first painting for two centuries has been the most reproduced painting in Vienna, the second hundred years has been exhibiting the founders of futurism in every subsequent retrospective exhibition of futurists. But other portraits of female painters, capturing important personalities, also have documentary and artistic values. This is true of the portrait of the Moravian writer Marie von Ebner Eschenbach, the Polish painter Olga Boznaňská, or the painter Julius Mařák. In addition to portraits of important personalities, valuable artistic portraits of little-known personalities that were created on the study trips of women painters in Paris, as well as self-portraits of painters created in the styles of their time, such as Věra Jičínská, Linka Procházková, Růžena Zátková, Marie Galimberti-Provázková, Zdenka Burghauserová. We also owe it to other painters, now almost forgotten, for preserving their appearance in self-portraits. Several painters were engaged in portraits of children. Of these, Vilma Vrbová Kotrbová and Milada Marešová stood out the most. And a double portrait, a four-portrait and group portraits were also created.