Painter: Hans Mielich
Portrait of Ladislaus von Fraunberg, Count of Haag, 1557

Oil on canvas
height 214 cm, width 113 cm
Dated and signed on the wooden cornice: ANNO DN M.D.LVII. HANNS MIELICH A MONAC. FECIT
Inscription on the arms pane: CVM LABORE ET DEO IVVANTE LADISLAVS GRAFFE ZV HAG
Inscription on the panther`s collar: LS
Inv.-No. GE1065
Provenance: after 1557 or 1566 in the possession of Ladislaus von Fraunberg’s sister, Maximiliane, Countess of Ortenburg, whose daughter Countess Anna Maria of Ortenburg married Hartmann II von Liechtenstein in 1568, bringing the picture into the Princely Collections

As the son of Munich city painter Wolfgang Mielich, Hans Mielich was initially tutored in his father’s workshop. He was then trained by Albrecht Altdorfer, in whose Regensburg studio Mielich is known to have worked from 1536 until the death of the master. By 1540 Mielich had returned to Munich. Following a two-year journey to Italy he was admitted as a Master to the Munich painters’ guild, which he headed from 1548.