Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and portrait artist, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century.  He studied at the Academy of Arts in Munich with Peter von Cornelius (1783–1867) and also with portraitist Joseph Karl Stieler (1781–1858).
Winterhalter was an internationally sought after portrait painter, his subjects included Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie, Franz Joseph I and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Grand Duke Leopold of Baden and his wife, and Madame Rimsky-Korsakov, among many others.  His wide international patronage was rivaled only by Rubens and van Dyck.
Spanish artist, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, studied with Winterhalter in Paris.
 

Meryl Ann Butler studied with Harold Stevenson, 

who studied with Norman Rockwell

who studied with Frank Vincent DuMond

who studied with William Sartain

who studied with Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat

who studied with Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

who studied with Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz

who studied with Franz Xaver Winterhalter