ENDER, Thomas
(b. 1793, Wien, d. 1875, Wien)

View of Rio de Janeiro

1837
Oil on canvas, 127 x 189 cm
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

In 1817 Thomas Ender joined a natural history expedition to Brazil and he was entrusted with the post of the painting "reporter." He made in Brazil about seven hundred drawings. In 1837 Ender presented an oil painting, View of Rio de Janeiro, based on one of these drawings as a reception piece for the Vienna Academy.